The Case for Jeff Fitzgerald for US Senate

Consistent, Battle-Tested Leadership

Jeff Fitzgerald was elected Assembly Minority Leader at a time when Democrats controlled all branches of Wisconsin’s government.   As Minority Leader, Representative Fitzgerald made two promises: First, his Republican caucus would win the next election and retake the Assembly Majority.  Second, if given the chance to govern, Republicans would deliver true conservative reforms to the Badger state.

Two years later in the 2010 election, Representative Fitzgerald kept his first promise by helping hold all incumbent GOP seats and winning 14 away from the Democrats to create a 60 seat conservative majority in the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Now, a little more than one year into his term as Speaker, Representative Fitzgerald has delivered on his second promise by ushering through the most conservative legislative agenda in Wisconsin history.

Under  Speaker Fitzgerald’s aggressive and direct leadership, the Wisconsin state legislature has enacted  decades-worth of long-overdue conservative reforms, including:

• Legislation that affirms our second amendment rights by allowing law-abiding citizens to Conceal and Carry weapons and to protect their property and their families  via Castle Doctrine laws
• The aggressive expansion of Wisconsin’s School Choice program, putting kids first
• Voter I.D. legislation that will insure the integrity of our elections and enforce our sacred principle of one man-one vote
• Sweeping regulatory relief that will assist job creators and get Wisconsin working again

In addition, Speaker Fitzgerald took on the trial lawyers’ lobby to ratify the nation’s most significant tort reform package of 2011 while seeing to it that state dollars ceased flowing to Planned Parenthood because the nation’s largest abortion provider has no business receiving tax subsidies from hard-working Wisconsinites.

Most importantly, Speaker Fitzgerald  helped eliminate a $3.6 billion budget deficit without raising taxes or relying on phony accounting gimmicks, and he led the charge along with Governor Scott Walker  to pass long-overdue pension and benefit reforms (Act 10) that have saved the state millions of tax dollars and thousands of jobs.

During debate of Act 10, picketers targeted Speaker Fitzgerald’s home and family, tens of thousands of angry protestors mobbed the State Capitol, and Jeff was the target of death threats.  The behavior of these protestors and their out-of-state special interest backers only strengthened Speaker Fitzgerald’s resolve to pass the bill that continues to rewrite the bureaucratic, budgetary and political landscape of Wisconsin in a positive and meaningful way.

With an open U.S. Senate seat, Wisconsin has the opportunity to send a Senator to Washington that will fight for reforms on the national level that exceed what has been accomplished here at home.

To address issues such as joblessness, out-of-control government spending, crushing debt, exploding entitlements and gross fiscal mismanagement, Wisconsin needs a conservative leader with a proven record of standing up to the entrenched special interests and the status quo.

The experiences Speaker Fitzgerald has had in leading Wisconsin Republicans back into the majority and passing collective bargaining reforms and other conservative priorities have left him battle-tested and ready to take on the Washington establishment.