Breaking News

VP Pence talks energy and jobs during La Crosse rally at Dairyland Power

Published

4 years ago

September 7, 2020

Vice President Mike Pence promoted an economic comeback from the lows of the pandemic, and praised working people during a Labor Day speech at Dairyland Power in La Crosse.

Republican Pence spoke for a half-hour to about 300 people gathered in a parking lot near at the Dairyland headquarters along East Avenue.

“I promise you that we’re never going to stop fighting for working people all across Wisconsin and all across America,” said Pence.

The vice president also said the U.S. is exporting more energy now than in the last 70 years.

Pence charged that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden “and the radical left want to crush American energy, and American energy jobs.”

Traveling with Pence was Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia, who said the Trump administration has created 10 million new jobs since May, and has brought unemployment back down to 8.4 per cent from double-digit highs after the COVID-19 outbreak began.

Both Trump supporters and local Black Lives Matter demonstrators gathered on East Avenue during the Pence rally, and they stood on both sides of the street as the motorcade left the Dairyland property.

Brad Williams

A native of Prairie du Chien, Brad graduated from UW - La Crosse and has worked in radio news for more than 30 years, mostly in the La Crosse area. He regularly covers local courts and city and county government. Brad produces the features "Yesterday in La Crosse" and "What's Buried on Brad's Desk." He also writes the website "Triviazoids," which finds odd connections between events that happen on a certain date, and he writes and performs with the local comedy group Heart of La Crosse. Brad been featured on several national TV programs because of his memory skills.