How We Balanced the Budget without Raising Taxes: Rebecca Kleefisch – Wisconsin’s Lieutenant Governor

Session host: Stephen K. Bannon | Session guest: Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch

Rebecca Kleefisch, a former small business owner and news reporter, serves as Wisconsin’s 44th Lieutenant Governor. She joins The Victory Sessions with host Stephen K. Bannon to discuss the recession’s fallout on the state of Wisconsin and how she and Governor Scott Walker balanced  their budget without raising taxes.  FULL INTERVIEW.

She was elected Wisconsin’s Lieutenant Governor on November 2, 2010.

Widely credited for coining the phrase, “Wisconsin is Open for Business”, Rebecca immediately played a key role in business growth and retention for Wisconsin – cold-calling Illinois businesses that, in turn, relocated to Wisconsin, and nimbly responding to businesses looking for support.

Rebecca serves as Wisconsin’s “Jobs Ambassador’ and spearheads the Governor’s Small Business Summits, listening and input sessions held all over the state. She chaired the Governor’s Sub Cabinet on Workforce Investment that developed the “Wisconsin Working” plan, designed to connect the unemployed to jobs, encourage the hiring of veterans and address Wisconsin’s graying manufacturing workforce. Rebecca serves as an economic development liaison and advocate for small business owners and chairs the newly-created Committee on Minority Unemployment.

The Lieutenant Governor is also known for her work on veterans’ issues ; she advocated for the declaration of 2012 as “The Year of the Veteran”. The public/private partnership initiative honors, celebrates and offers opportunities to Wisconsin’s heroes.

Rebecca  serves on the Manufacturing and STEM Committees of the Aerospace States Association. She was recently named one of the nation’s 45 Most Admired Republican Women Under 45 by the Republican Security Council.

Rebecca is a colon cancer survivor, a member of the NRA and graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the mother of two daughters, Ella and Violet. She lives in Oconomowoc with her husband, State Representative Joel Kleefisch.

Sarah Palin

“ Tell other voters why you supported Rebecca in the first place. Explain her campaign promises and how she has stuck to them and – surprising in today’s political world – is actually fulfilling them….She’s setting an example for every other state in the union because responsible state and local governments will be the entities that defend our Republic at a time when there is less and less reason to believe our big centralized federal government will address its self-perpetuated economic problems.”

Ann Althouse:

“…an interview with Wisconsin Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, who’s impressively articulate. I was watching this video with Meade, and he said: “That’s the next Governor of Wisconsin.”

The Political Operatives:

“She is a tremendously impressive and energetic speaker. Indeed, she is really a woman that typifies the emergence of courageous, conservative women in public leadership.”

Eric Golub, The Washington Times Communities:

“Lieutenant Governor Kleefisch should be the public face of every conservative organization on Earth. She is a bright woman…”

Michelle Malkin “A former television anchor, small businesswoman and mother of two, Kleefisch’s quiet work on economic development has reaped untold dividends for the state.”

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