Nine Out of Ten WI State Law Makers Gave Themselves a 5.3% Raise January 2009

At the end of January 2009, during the worst recession this country has ever faced, The WI State Assembly decided to give themselves a pay raise of 5.3% while the State of WI was on record to exceed a $5.7 billion deficit.  Thousands of state workers were laid off and HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of American workers were losing their jobs.

Find out who these elected "representatives" were by reading the attached link to the article in the Wisconsin State Journal.  10 elected officials gave the money back: Senators Alberta Darling, Jon Erpenbach, Ted, Kanavas, Dan Kapanke, Joe Leibham, Dale Schultz.  Representatives; Steve Hilgenberg, Dan Knodl, Margaret Krusick, Keith Ripp.

I have listed on a separate post on how to contact your senators and representatives.  Please contact them and ask them why they gave themselves the raise while many of the people who put them in office were suffering.  And remember; elections are in November!  Please vote your conscience.