Lansing- Ron Bieber, President of the Michigan AFL-CIO released the following statement in reaction to Republican Gubernatorial nominee Bill Schuette choosing Kent County Clerk Lisa Lyons as his running mate:
“The Schuette-Lyons ticket sounds like the DeVos dream team for rigging the rules in favor of wealthy corporate special interests. Lisa Lyons spent her time in Lansing attacking the freedoms of working people and their families. She voted to give a massive tax break to corporations and balanced the budget by taxing the pensions of hard working seniors and cutting hundreds of millions of dollars in education funding. She voted for the disastrous right-to-work law which undermines our ability to protect the things we need to sustain our families. Her comparison of teachers to hogs needing to be slaughtered shows she doesn’t value the experience of educators in our classrooms. Lisa Lyons has shown us time and time again where her loyalties lie, and it’s not with the working folks of Michigan.”
