No. He is a distant cousin, but he changed the spelling of his name to capitalize on the history of his famous shirt tail relative. Probably half of WI thinks he's the grandson. He's actually a nasty piece of work who should be thrown out on his tail. One of my friends owns a summer cottage in Door County near Mr. LaFollette's summer home. My friend erected a flag pole at the edge of his patio facing the Lake where he flies the US Flag. (perfectly legal) Mr. LaFollette came to my friend and TOLD him to move his flage and pole "back into the woods where nobody can see it." My friend declined, but can you imagine a state elected officer saying such a thing? Ostensibly, Mr. LF was intervening because my friend's direct neighbor in Door County (union teachers from Illinois) claimed that the clanging of the cables holding the flag aloft was "giving her a nervous breakdown). Mr. LF was "protecting" her. Then, he caused so much trouble by now publishing the new laws Walker signed allowing unions to rush new contracts into effect. Now those school districts had to lay off emplyees and got no benefit of cost savings by looking for new insurance (cheaper than the union owned insurance company).
I lived in Green Bay as a kid 1958-62. I remember Door County as a neat place to go fishing.
Wisconsin seems to be one of those mostly rural & small town states that are dominated by liberal urban politics, like Illinois, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina (I’ve lived in S.C. since 1972). Racine & Madison pretty much own a state where most of the population likes to hunt and fish.