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Chip Ford opening the brunch,
greeting the guests, and about to lead them in the Pledge of
Allegiance, before inviting them to chow down. |
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CLT's Chip Faulkner awarding the
Citizen for Limited Taxation Award to Jake Hagopian, of the
Holden Association of Taxpayers (HAT). |
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Chip Faulkner awarding the
David P. Wilson Award for Uniting Taxpayers to Walter E. Dixon, of
the Norwell Taxpayers Alliance (NTA). |
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Barbara awarding the Warren T.
Brookes Award in absentia to Michael A. Valerio: founder of Papa Gino's,
an early board member of Citizens for Limited Taxation and supporter of Proposition 2½
and the CLT campaign, which made it possible and a successful reality. |
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Following the awards ceremony,
Barbara from her wheelchair introduced the brunch's keynote speaker, Jim Braude.
Before becoming a well-respected and hard-hitting interviewer on New England Cable
News ("Wired With Jim Braude" and "NewsNight With Jim Braude"), he
was the leading opponent against CLT on tax issues, a liberal's
liberal. That's not to say that he's changed his philosophical stripes since
leaving the Tax Equity Alliance for Massachusetts (TEAM), nicknamed "Tax Everything
And More" long ago by us fiscal conservatives. |
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Jim gave it his best shot,
and did it well. He had a surprising number of
admirers when he entered the room, and more by the end after
standing by our position on the
tax rollback -- because the voters had spoken -- and his demand
for
a return of the initiative-referendum process and constitutional government. |
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Jim set up and presented a
video of his and Barbara's first confrontations, back in the late-
'80s when he was first brought in to organize and speak for TEAM
(Tax Equity Alliance for Massachusetts, aka., "Tax Everything And
More"). It was an audio-visual delight,
the two of them going at it together that long ago when both were
so much younger! |
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Jim Braude and Margery Eagan,
columnist for The Boston Herald and co-talk show host with Jim on WTKK-FM 96.9, joking
about her 1990 Boston
Herald column . . . |
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Jim took some hard and pointed
questions from the CLT audience and handled them all very well, often
agreeing with us: e.g., that the voters have spoken and
should be honored, regardless of his preferred outcome.
Barbara presented Jim with a copy of "A
Conflict of Visions" by Thomas Sowell, and a DVD copy of "Serenity,"
to expand his horizons. |
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Barbara holding court
from her new mobile "throne." (She broke her foot, which is
now in a cast.) |
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Once
adversaries, still friends. |
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A chance and
friendly meet-up by two other opponents: Brian Camenker, of
Mass. Resistance and Margery Eagan. |
