Taxpayers United of America (TUA) will be holding a press conference in Madison, WI this Monday, February 28, 2011, at 11am. The press conference will be held at The Capitol at 2 E Main Street, Madison, WI, 400 SE (4th floor SE).
Jim Tobin, President of TUA, will discuss why Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s recent push to reduce some collective bargaining privileges currently exercised by public employee unions is a bold move in the right direction.
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CHICAGO–Illinois State Comptroller Judy Barr Topinka “has reached new heights of hypocrisy,” charged the president of Illinois’ largest taxpayer organization, who criticized her today for defending the lavish, gold-plated pensions of retired government employees while she enriches herself from these same pensions.
“Topinka is a lifetime politician who milks the system and richly profits from it,” said Jim Tobin, President of National Taxpayers United of Illinois (NTUI). “At the recent Sangamon County GOP’s Lincoln Day Luncheon, Topinka told the bureaucrats in the audience, ‘I’m kind of tired of state employees taking a bad rap…most state employees work hard, and they don’t make all that much money….’ Well, a lot of them do get a lot of money, including Topinka.”
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Christina Tobin of NTUI speaks at minute 2:17 in the video below. NTUI has no control over the content of this video, including advertisements.
Source: ABC News.
