I’m not from Maine, but my family has made it their home away from home for more than 100 years. My dad bought a house on Eagle Island in Penobscot Bay in 1930, and my family still visits there every summer.

My dad was a union man, and so am I. I just blew my stack reading that Maine’s Gov. Paul LePage is planning to tear down murals and rename rooms in the Department of Labor, in the interest of “balance.” It’s not as if big business didn’t have its champions from the Wall Street Journal to the American Enterprise Institute, from Rush Limbaugh to Bill O’Reilly, from virtually every politician from the president on down.

Across the country today, I see attacks on unions, workers’ rights and workers’ benefits.

The rich, who have never been richer, still don’t have enough. As billionaire Warren Buffett said, “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”

What’s happening today is the destruction of the power of working people to have a fair share of the pie and a voice in how this country is run.

I won’t participate in my own enslavement, or my son’s. If your governor succeeds, I will add Maine to the growing list of states where I will not set foot.

David Fairley, San Francisco, Calif.