JOE McGINNISS

In Madison, Wisconsin today–and not for the first time–Sarah tried to identify herself with organized labor.
She said, “I’m here as a patriot, as a taxpayer, and as a former union member.”

I said, “Huh?”  Lord, lordy, in all my research I somehow must have missed Sarah’s blue collar union days.    But at least there’s still time to write about them in my last chapter, due June 4.   So I checked.

Turns out that Vince Beltrami, president of Alaska AFL-CIO, already wrote about those glory days–on Feb. 19,in the Anchorage Daily News.

Beltrami was irked by the “utter hypocrisy” of Sarah urging (via Facebook) her “union brothers and sisters” to oppose
the protests against Wisconsin Gov. Walker’s signing into law a bill that stripped public employees of union rights.
He wrote, “She belonged to my union, the IBEW, for about a minute, over twenty years ago, one summer, in a temporary position.”

Now, again, she claims a link with organized labor by saying she’s “a former union member?”

Who does she think she’s kidding?

She’s not even Maggie in Bob Dylan’s Maggie’s Farm, she’s Maggie’s ma.

I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s ma no more
No, I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s ma no more
Well, she talks to all the servants
About man and God and law…
She’s sixty-eight, but she says she’s twenty-four
I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s ma no more