With only a few days until Election Day, my opponent is desperate and has sadly turned to spreading falsehoods about my character and my conservative voting record in the state Legislature. Since he can’t be proud of his own record of supporting bail outs and new taxes on businesses and families, he’s resulted to falsely attacking my proven conservative record and misleading you.
One such attack involves the “13th” check. The truth is I have stood strong for the “13th” check and I will always honor our commitment to our teachers, firemen, law enforcement and our state’s dedicated civil servants.
Please take these facts below and share them with your friends and family to finally put an end to the attacks from my desperate opponent. His attacks are just an attempt to distract you from the real issues facing our country, which are record unemployment, reckless deficit spending and our massive $14 trillion dollar debt.
Here are the facts:
- Any accusation that Steven would cut or tried to end the “13th” check is false. Steven is committed to honoring the retirement of our state’s public servants. Steven has worked to protect the “13th” check and prevent further state layoffs like we’ve seen in other states.
- Steven’s supported a bill that affected the COLA formula for new hires only. Steven killed the bill after the legislature omitted language that protects those currently in the system. This bill was never voted on, never became law and is dead.
- Steven sought to protect retirees and future retirees and help prevent state and municipal layoffs and furloughs through sound fiscal responsibility. We must keep our promises to retirees and those who have contributed to their retirement. We must keep current state and municipal workers gainfully employed and prevent future layoffs.
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Yesterday, I was interviewed by WDAM and I had the opportunity to discuss several of my positions including the “13th” check. I talk about the “13th”check at the 4:40 mark. Please take some time to listen to the truth and help stop this false attack against me. Remember, our campaign is about stopping Nancy Pelosi’s liberal agenda that threatens to train wreck our country and finally restoring conservative values to Congress. We won’t be distracted by politics as usual.