The Power of the Pledge compels you!
Las Vegas Valley Tea Party President Mary Rooney was kind enough to invite me to speak at last night’s meeting at the Boulevard Bar & Grill in Las Vegas to give a briefing on the status of our tax repeal referendum. I also discussed in detail the Taxpayer Protection Pledge… Here’s the thing… 90% of […]
Victoria’s Secret: The “Broken Window” Theory of Tax Hikes
Prodigal Assemblywoman Victoria Seaman – smarting from backlash from donors and past supporters over her recently revealed decision to not sign the Taxpayer Protection Pledge for her state senate run next year – put out quite the misleading e-newsletter column a few days ago. A column I refused to publish on Nevada News & Views. […]
Victoria’s Secret II: Seaman’s flirtation with the dark side
Following up on the unfortunate development regarding Assemblywoman Victoria Seaman, who in less than one-half of one term in office has already “gone native” and now refuses to re-sign the Taxpayer Protection Pledge for her state senate run. Two points… 1.) Seaman says she shouldn’t need to sign “a piece of paper.” That we should just […]
Politicians lie, but when it comes to the Tax Pledge the numbers don’t
Liberals and RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) hate the Taxpayer Protection Pledge with, as Diane Chambers once put it on Cheers, “the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns.” And there’s a very good reason for that… It works. In signing the Tax Pledge, a candidate promises the voters of his or her district that he […]
Jon Ralston’s “Dimwits”
Perhaps the only thing Jon Ralston, Nevada’s #2 liberal blogger-with-a-taxpayer-subsidized-TV-show, hates worse than me, conservative Assemblywoman Michele Fiore and Nevada Republican Party Chairman Michael McDonald combined is the Taxpayer Protection Pledge. And I guess it’s understandable. The vast majority of candidates for public office who sign the Pledge, honor it once elected (exceptions include Nevada […]