Move Over Grover

Grover Norquist OTBL Arch angel.
of the Americans for Tax Reform (ATR).

His strategy:
"Norquist is not ashamed to discuss his main political strategy. In May 2003 he was quoted in The Denver Post as saying, "We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals—and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship."

Do you think he may have some allies in the WI State Legislature or maybe even closer to home?

Norquist’s fundamental belief is that taxation is theft—money the government "takes by force." It’s the libertarian view that has animated the conservative movement for years, grounded in an unshakeable faith that if economic decisions are left to individuals and the unrestrained free market, all will be well. Government is always the enemy, and the ultimate goal of the movement is—in a phrase that has now entered the online Dictionary of Public Finance—to "starve the beast." ATR’s mission statement says: "The government’s power to control one’s life derives from its power to tax. We believe that power should be minimized."

"While this might not seem inherently unreasonable to many, he has also famously said that his goal was to shrink government "down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."


Norquist air drops

Norquist is also quite adept at dropping in at various localities across the country and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to aid his political allies, this despite his organization being a 501(c)(3) charity.
Here's a short from the Minneapolis Star Tribune from August, 1999:

Antitax group airs ads favorable to Grams

Greg Gordon / Star Tribune

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- An antitax group has given Sen. Rod Grams, R-Minn., an early boost in his reelection effort, spending $424,000 on a television ad campaign in Minnesota that ballyhoos his support of the Republican-backed $792 billion tax-cut plan.

Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform, said his nonprofit group is spending $4.5 million to air nearly identical ads in seven states during the last three weeks in August to highlight "who's being helpful to taxpayers and who isn't."