Still Nothing on Jobs From Garthwaite

We here at PG Watch have gone without posting for quite sometime but we haven't gone as long as Rep. Garthwaite has without holding a public hearing in an important committee for job creation.

Rep. Garthwaite has been chairman of the Assembly Committee on Rural Economic Development for over a year now yet he hasn't had a single public hearing on even one piece of legislation to date. As chairman of the Rural Economic Development Committee, Garthwaite is in a unique position to draft and pass ideas to bring jobs to rural Wisconsin areas like Grant County. During the worst recession in a generation, his inaction does a great disservice to his constituents.

According to the Department of Workforce Development, Wisconsin lost 26,100 jobs in December bringing total unemployment to 250,900 or 8.7% of Wisconsin’s workforce. Unemployment in Grant County is up almost a whole percentage point since last month. Still Rep. Garthwaite refuses to act.

To date Rep, Garthwaite's legislative agenda has consisted of bills to regulate honey, legalize industrial marijuana cultivation, and to rename 'swine flu' as 'H1N1'. These aren't necessarily bad ideas but they certainly won't be putting anybody back to work anytime soon. Rep. Garthwaite's silence on jobs speaks volumes.