Tuesday is Virtual Lobby Day.
It’s Tuesday. Wear Red. Email your legislators. “Don’t mess with our TRS.”
At our Local’s Governing Board meeting last night we made plans for our back-home lobbying efforts. In past years, this would have been one part of our campaign to fill a bus with members and head down to Springfield for a mass lobbing effort. IEA leadership, in their wisdom, decided to cancel that this year.
One of our local Association leaders, Jerry Mulvihill, wrote IEA about this:
I’ve been doing this for many years. What I need are the resources to be able to contact other IEA members in my legislative district so that we can work together instead of lobbying individually. Also, the point of Lobby Days was to make a statement of organization strength, right? Would Wisconsin have stayed away from the state capitol if the building was under renovation? I think not.
In the 35th, we are about to elect a new state rep. Any IEA members who line in the 35th District