Jackie Walorski instructs at the Women’s Campaign College

State Representative Jackie Walorski served as an instructor for the Women’s Campaign College at IUSB last week.  Several of the attendees, even those from the Green Party, had great words to say about her instructions.

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Jackie Walorski's Capitol Letters Blog

Jackie Walorski gives us a round-up of this session on her blog. Here's some of what she had to say.

The 2008 Indiana General Assembly is now in the history books and will certainly go down as a session that delivered some major wins for taxpayers. Especially the 30-40% immediate property tax cut for Elkhart and St. Joseph County homeowners. Let me tell you, those wins didn’t come easily. It was a fight all along the way with those who felt they knew how to spend your money better than you. Not only that, it was a battle to convince them that no Hoosier should ever lose their home because of high taxes. I still firmly believe that until we actually “eliminate” the property tax it will be a source of many court battles and fights between local and state governments. But faced with limited options, this tax plan was the only one that I felt brought some immediate relief to Hoosiers this year.

Jackie Walorski: Spring campaign kicks off

Rep. Jackie Walorski never misses an opportunity to connect with voters in person and online. She’s doing so on Facebook, through an interactive website, and a blog.

This week, we were invited via Facebook to join Jackie for the Wakarusa Maple Syrup parade. You can too. Visit the event page to RSVP for the parade see Jackie in Wakarusa.

We’ve seen large crowds for Jackie in the past with dozens of volunteers in her parades. You'll be happy you joined her.

Walorski, Friend meet with constituents

The Elkhart Truth reports:

Indiana Reps. Jackie Walorski, R-Lakeville, and Bill Friend, R-Macy, joined Sen. Ryan Mishler, R-Bremen, in Nappanee Saturday morning to meet their voters with legislative update issues. All made it clear that they understood the importance of getting the property tax dilemma under control.

"I hope that somehow we can come up with a compromise in all of this," Friend said.

The trio assured the crowd that House Bill 1001, concerning the property taxes in Indiana, was the No. 1 priority at the moment.

"The bill has already passed in the House," Walorski said. "Now the Senate is piecing it apart and taking a look at each part of it as they make amendments and pass it through. March 1 it will face the last step in becoming a reality."

Walorski’s “Stop Killing Cops” bill sent to Senate

WNDU in South Bend has a great story about a bill strengthening penalties on “cop killers” passing the Indiana House.

Rep. Jackie Walorski calls for spending caps

Rep. Jackie Walorski is interviewed here by South Bend’s WSBT, highlighting the importance of a state spending cap. View the story as text here.

Rep. Walorski made her case in this video for state spending caps while Democrats complained that reducing government is a bad thing.

Walorski:

“One of the things I think, Samuel, is key is that we have a spending cap on the state level,” said Jackie Walorski, R-Lakeville. “I think whatever we impose at the local level of the governor’s bill we impose at the state [level] as well.”

“There certainly is two sides to the equation,” said Sen. John Broden, D-South Bend. “And I certainly want to provide my constituents with meaningful property tax relief, but I also know my constituents expect safe streets and they know that comes from police officers and firefighters and they want streets that frankly don’t have potholes in them.”

Rep. Jackie Walorski listens to constituents

Rep. Walorski attended a Third House session organized by her local Chamber of Commerce recently. Check out the South Bend television coverage here.

To see the video, click on the camera icon above the photo.