MADISON, Wis. — New reporting from the Milwaukee Courier details Wisconsin union workers rallying on Tax Day to protest Tom Tiffany’s vote gutting affordable healthcare to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. During a campaign stop in November, Tiffany admitted that after more than 15 years of trying to rip away healthcare from over 300,000 Wisconsinites, Republicans still don’t have an alternative plan to the Affordable Care Act. Wisconsin voters are fired up to hold Tiffany accountable for his cost-raising, bad-for-Wisconsin record.

Milwaukee Courier: ‘Tiffany loves billionaires’: Union members protest outside Milwaukee GOP office
By: Drake Bentley

  • One of the country’s most powerful labor unions organized a protest on Milwaukee’s near north side on April 15, Tax Day, against gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany and the Republican Party of Wisconsin. 
  • Around 40 members of the union stood near the intersection of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and North Avenue in the historically Black Bronzeville neighborhood. The GOP has a community office at the intersection. 
  • Drivers at the busy intersection honked and yelled as a nearly 12-foot puppet of Tiffany lined the road and the group chanted “Tiffany loves billionaires.” 
  • “We’re here to promote and let people know what Tiffany stands for,” said Anthol Farrar, who said he was a Wisconsin voter. “(Tiffany) is against Obamacare.” 
  • “We need a governor that’s going to support healthcare,” Farrar said. “It’s hard on people out here. (Tiffany) is promoting giving tax breaks to billionaires by cutting healthcare. That’s unacceptable.” 
  • “Working Wisconsinites are fired up about the race for governor and know Tom Tiffany is responsible for raising costs and gutting health care to pay for tax breaks for billionaires,” said Emily Stuckey, a spokesperson with WisDems. “Tiffany thinks he can get a promotion playing the D.C. politics he learned in Congress, but voters will hold him accountable for his record of working for the rich and powerful at the expense of working class Wisconsinites at the ballot box.”