Spooner – Spooner Police Department veteran and 75^th Assembly District candidate Don Quinton is thanking Representative Mary Hubler (D-Rice Lake) for her many years of service today and looking forward to a healthy and spirited debate with his campaign opponent—once he has one—on Wisconsin’s most pressing issues: jobs & the economy, state spending, and taxes. Representative Hubler has announced that she will not seek re-election this year.

 

“I may not have agreed with her politics, but I respect Representative Hubler and thank her for her years of service to our area,” said Quinton. “Although I will have a different opponent, my focus on job-creation and reigning in runaway state spending and taxation will not change.”

 

After Assembly Democrats voted to raise taxes by nearly $5 billion in 2009, the 75^th Assembly District sank further into unemployment. When the legislative session convened in January 2009, Barron County’s unemployment rate was 7.3 percent; Washburn County’s was 8.3 percent, and Polk County’s was 7.3 percent. Today, they are 10.7 percent, 12.2 percent, and 11.9 percent, respectively.

 

“The working people of the 75^th Assembly District have seen the harmful effects of increasing taxes to fund a nearly 10 percent increase in state spending,” said Quinton. “When families and employers are already struggling to make ends meet, asking for more money out of their pockets is exactly the wrong thing state government should be doing.”

 

In addition to serving Spooner as a police officer for 17 years, Quinton, 44, has also served on the Washburn County Board since 2005 and is a member of the Wisconsin Counties Association. Previously, he served his country in the U.S. Army Military Police and is member of the National Rifle Association and Knights of Columbus. Quinton is married with four children.

 

The 75^th Assembly District includes most of Barron County and the southern half of Washburn County, as well as eastern portions of Polk County. The Primary Election is on Tuesday, September 14^th and the General Election is on Tuesday, November 2^nd.