Thursday, March 10, 2011

P R LITJENS, 56th Assembly.

Way to go Michelle.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MARCH 10, 2011
CONTACT STATE REPRESENTATIVE MICHELLE LITJENS (608) 266-7500
REP. LITJENS: STATEMENT ON PASSAGE OF AB 11

Madison- On Thursday, Representative Michelle Litjens (R-Vinland) released the
following statement on the passage of the Budget Repair Bill:

“This is not about collective bargaining. This bill has been about saving the jobs
and avoiding layoffs of our hardworking State and Local public employees.

“The fact is that we have a budgetary crisis in Wisconsin. If our elected officials,
both Republican and Democrat, had acted responsibly over the last 17 years, we would
not be here right now. I promised my constituents that I will balance the budget honestly
and that is exactly what we are laying the groundwork to do.

“It is unfortunate that our public employees were given bad information about this
bill. Wages were not cut. No one will be laid off. No one will go to work tomorrow
without protections from inmates. And no one will be forced to work overtime without
being justly compensated. The sky has not fallen and we are not putting public employees
in harms way.”

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