[Vision2020] A Woman Scorned

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of the The Uptake at:

http://theuptake.org/2011/03/16/did-wisconsin-gop-senator-hoppers-estranged-wife-sign-recall-petition-against-him/

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Did Wisconsin GOP Senator Hopper’s Estranged Wife Sign Recall Petition
Against Him?

Upon returning to Madison and speaking at a press conference on Saturday,
the “Wisconsin 14″ Democratic Senators who had fled the state for
Illinois implied that the thousands of protesters gathered at the State
Capitol would soon drop their signs and pick up clipboards as part of a
nearly statewide recall campaign against eight Republican Senators from
swing districts who supported Gov. Scott Walker’s union-killing bill.

Some of those clipboard-carrying demonstrators were met with quite a shock
that day in Fond Du Lac, an hour and a half north of Madison, at the home
of State Senator Randy Hopper, who reportedly worked closely with Walker
on the unpopular legislation. Alysia Hopper — aka “Mrs. Hopper” — answered
the door and told the crowd that Sen. Hopper no longer lived there, but
had taken up residence in Madison with his 25-year-old mistress. On
Monday, the Milwaukee television station TMJ4 reported that it had
received a letter from Alysia Hopper — on letterhead envelope from her
business — claiming that Sen. Hopper “started an affair in January 2010
with a then 25 year old Republican aide.” The letter claims “Randy moved
out” and “now lives mostly in Madison.” Court records confirm that they
have since filed for divorce. According to TMJ4, the letter also implied
that Alysia Hopper might have signed the recall petition against her
estranged husband.

Sen. Hopper’s affair contradicts the union-supporting family-man image he
sought to portray on the campaign trail last year. Behold this photo of
him in an AFSCME t-shirt:

http://theuptake.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Hopper.jpg

and this video of him with wife and children:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9U-x4kYrlw

Who is Hopper’s new fling? According to the Daily Kos, it’s Valerie Class,
a lobbyist for a right-wing lobbying firm called Persuasion Partners, Inc.
— at least she was until this past weekend. According to her bio on
Persuasion Partners’ website (which has since been removed from their
site), prior to going to work for Persuasion Partners, Cass staffed the
Senate Economic Development Committee, of which Sen. Randy Hopper happened
to be a member.

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.”

- William Congreve, The Mourning Bride (1697)