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“Gov. (Scott) Walker has yet to create a job, he gives away millions to his friends, and he raises taxes on working people.”

Lena Taylor on Tuesday, March 29th, 2011 in a news release

Rochester, N.Y. —
The League of Women Voters of the Rochester Metropolitan Area held their annual “Making Democracy Work” luncheon today, bringing in guest speaker Sen. Lena Taylor, a Democratic state senator from Wisconsin who was one of the Wisconsin 14.

The Wisconsin 14 prevented the passing of a bill earlier this year that would have limited the collective bargaining agreements with state employees. The group spent three weeks in Illinois to keep the bill from a vote.

The bill eventually passed in the state legislature, though it has been appealed and is awaiting decision.

Taylor said that it shold be a priority of government to make negotiations happen, instilling the “concept of democracy in the workplace.”

“Workers need to have the opportunity to be at the table,” Taylor said.

She spoke to a crowd of around four dozen attendees at the Hyatt Regency, filling them in what happened in Wisconsin, civic engagement and the importance of voting and voter registration.

She told the crowd that, to change the values and priorities of government, it is time to get involved.

“They are in question, their accessibility is in question and I frankly believe they are in jeopardy,” Taylor said. “The quesiton is, will you just sit on the sidelines and watch it happen, will you be too busy, or will you…

Taylor, speaking as an African-American and as a woman, said that it’s of the upmost importance for citizens to exercise their right to vote – especially since that is a right for many groups that wasn’t first granted in the United States.

“We weren’t in the ‘We the people’ when those documents were first created,” Taylor said. See more: http://www.fairport-erpost.com/feature/x1968427610/Sen-Lena-Taylor-speaks-to-Rochester-League-of-Women-Voters