Gail Riecken’s Response to Allegation of Lying

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Contributed by: Gail Riecken

“This desperate smear campaign by my opponent is a distraction and is the kind of mudslinging that has become all too familiar from Cheryl Musgrave. This is what turns voters off from the political process.

What people in Southwest Indiana should know is the truth. The truth is, the bill Cheryl is referring to would have created jobs in Southeast and Northwest Indiana, NOT Southwest Indiana. These new road projects could jeopardize funding for the already delayed I-69 project and opens the door for our I-69 to be privatized and even tolled. Maybe Cheryl supports tolling and selling I-69, I do not.

My record on creating jobs for Hoosiers is clear, and I will always support jobs for our community. I promise to continue to fight for jobs to be brought to Southwest Indiana. I will not stand by while other areas are helped to the detriment of our community.

In 2010 alone, I supported the following jobs initiatives:

The Helping Indiana Restart Employment (HIRE) Program which could have put 10,000 to work if not stalled by the Daniels administration

A tax credit for new businesses or expanding businesses that create new jobs in Indiana

Expanding EDGE credits for job retention to small businesses to save jobs

Creating the small business ombudsman to save jobs by cutting out the bureaucratic red tape for small businesses.

The claw back of state incentives from companies that don’t create the jobs they promised which will allow for more money to go to companies that are creating jobs

A statute that requires IEDC to concentrate incentives on areas hit hardest by the recession.

I pledge to continue to fight for working families in our community and find ways to improve the lives of Hoosiers in Southwest Indiana.

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4 COMMENTS

  2. Creating ANOTHER bureaucrat – to lead a business owner through the web of endless bureaucrats?

    “Creating the small business ombudsman to save jobs by cutting out the bureaucratic red tape for small businesses.”

    What a laugh.

  3. “The claw back of state incentives from companies that don’t create the jobs they promised which will allow for more money to go to companies that are creating jobs”

    Or, you could… just leave taxes/regulation low for EVERYBODY? Leave the “incentives” to the cities that want to give the farm away.

    I know, I know, a quaint old idea that is often now labeled the “tired, old policies of the past” – some people might describe that as an attempt at freedom.

  4. Claw backs for companies that do not create the jobs they promise in order to receive their generous tax supported incentive packages? What a joke. When have they ever been enforced? Has AIG lived up to its commitment? Did ONB add any jobs when it moved from one Main Street address to another?

    To date, it has been one big *#+*ing joke, a transfer of wealth from the taxpayers to the business owners. Sorry, but that is where it stands.

    If you want to clean it up you have my full support, but the guy in the 3rd floor corner office couldn’t care less about promises to taxpayers. Witness his actions over the local homestead credit.

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