CLT NEWS RELEASE
Tuesday, September 7,
2010
The autumn of our discontent: Revolution 2010
For
Immediate Release
We helped cause the revolution of 1980, when Ronald Reagan won
the presidency and Citizens for Limited Taxation won Proposition 2½.
We remember the revolution of 1990, when Bill Weld won the
governorship and enough legislative incumbents were defeated to keep
the rest in line for his reform agenda. We are overdue for the next
revolution.
We connect with our Washington allies
Americans for Tax Reform (ATR)
and the
National Taxpayers Union
to try to control the national debt, and look forward to fiscal
conservatives winning several Massachusetts congressional seats.
At the state level, CLT works with ATR to ask candidates for
Massachusetts legislative seats to sign the Taxpayer Protection “No
New Taxes” Pledge, and does an annual rating of legislative votes on
taxpayer issues.
CLT has a political action committee, CLT’s 2½ PAC, which has
been endorsing legislative candidates for almost thirty years. Chip
Faulkner, its executive director, endorses candidates who have
signed The Pledge and are running viable campaigns.
This year, because many taxpayers are “mad as hell and not going
to take it anymore,” almost all campaigns are viable. While we would
never advocate removing all incumbents – the PAC has endorsed four
taxpayer allies who have opponents – this year it is endorsing most
Pledge-signing challengers to those incumbents who have a “failed”
rating with CLT, and is especially eager to defeat those who have
refused to implement CLT’s hard-won 2000 income tax rate rollback to
5% and/or voted to increase the sales tax rate to 6.25% last year.
For 2010, the PAC has so far endorsed 48 challengers to House and
Senate incumbents, as well as candidates for 22 open seats. The list
of endorsed candidates can be found on CLT’s
here. A few more will be added after
the primary election.
Citizens for Limited Taxation
▪ PO Box 1147
▪ Marblehead, MA 01945
▪ 508-915-3665
