Wilhemina Works as an Auditor for the Pleasant Valley City

Wilhemina works as an auditor for the Pleasant Valley City Tax Department.She is asked to review the city's policies on collecting delinquent taxes.Willie makes recommendations to improve the timeliness of collecting overdue taxes by city employees and for the use of debt collectors.Her recommendations for the use of city employees are implemented but her suggestions regarding debt collectors are rejected.Willie writes a letter to the editor which is published in the Pleasant Valley Times newspaper.In the letter she criticizes the Tax Department's failure to follow all her suggestions.Willie is demoted to accounting assistant and files suit alleging a violation of her First Amendment right to free speech.

A) Willie will be restored to her job as auditor because writing to the newspaper is protected by the First Amendment.
B) Willie is not protected by the First Amendment because the matter on which she commented was strictly within her job responsibilities.
C) Willie is not be protected by the First Amendment because writing to the newspaper is not within her job description.
D) Willie would have been protected if she had alleged a violation of the Whistleblowers Protection Act of 1978.