Elections have consequences. Never has that been more evident than this last election cycle.
Whether you are a business owner, an employee or a consumer, the way you live your daily life or operate your business has changed dramatically!
Anti-construction or anti-small business policies or mandates affect us all. Only with a high level of political involvement does it become clear the many ways government is eroding the very fabric of our constitution and the freedoms we were born in to.
We, as a group, have to pull our heads out of the sand. Now is not the time to say “it doesn’t affect me, why should I care, someone else will do it, I don’t want to know or I didn’t know that.”
Follow our WBA staff on the hill for a day. It used to be we had a few issues at a time to argue our point of view. In many cases, we were able to make a positive impact for our members. The issues are now overwhelming. And on many serious issues we are now not able to make a difference. On the less serious issues we are not even able to have debate. Issues against business and, in some cases specifically against the construction industry, are being added during emergency rule or the rule making process by-passing normal legislative channels
As your president and a Build a Better Wisconsin trustee, I invite all of you to play some small part in a grassroots effort to take back our government. We need to identify and support potential candidates early and help mentor them and qualify them as leaders. We need a feeder system for election cycles as we move forward. This, I believe, will be much more cost-effective in the long run. Building an army of willing soldiers to take pro-business or pro-construction principles to the hill will greatly reduce the amount of time and money now being wasted just holding on.
Never again let our anti-business opponents out work us.
Let’s roll !
Whether you are a business owner, an employee or a consumer, the way you live your daily life or operate your business has changed dramatically!
Anti-construction or anti-small business policies or mandates affect us all. Only with a high level of political involvement does it become clear the many ways government is eroding the very fabric of our constitution and the freedoms we were born in to.
We, as a group, have to pull our heads out of the sand. Now is not the time to say “it doesn’t affect me, why should I care, someone else will do it, I don’t want to know or I didn’t know that.”
Follow our WBA staff on the hill for a day. It used to be we had a few issues at a time to argue our point of view. In many cases, we were able to make a positive impact for our members. The issues are now overwhelming. And on many serious issues we are now not able to make a difference. On the less serious issues we are not even able to have debate. Issues against business and, in some cases specifically against the construction industry, are being added during emergency rule or the rule making process by-passing normal legislative channels
As your president and a Build a Better Wisconsin trustee, I invite all of you to play some small part in a grassroots effort to take back our government. We need to identify and support potential candidates early and help mentor them and qualify them as leaders. We need a feeder system for election cycles as we move forward. This, I believe, will be much more cost-effective in the long run. Building an army of willing soldiers to take pro-business or pro-construction principles to the hill will greatly reduce the amount of time and money now being wasted just holding on.
Never again let our anti-business opponents out work us.
Let’s roll !
