CLT ALERT!
Tuesday, April 30, 2002
It's time to challenge, threaten ... run!
In this morning's membership Update, I mentioned CLT will attempt to run as many
challengers to tax-and-spend incumbents as we can, if tax increases are passed.
I also mentioned it as our fall-back
position to some reporters in interviews today.
This seems to have received some attention on Beacon Hill.
The time to launch it is right now, before the vote (which now seems to be heading for Thursday) to increase
taxes, then aggressively pursue the plan once we have a roll call vote to use.
The taxpaying public may be quiet now ... but that will
change if new taxes are imposed to continue growing the budget ever-larger
at the expense of hard-working constituents who pay the freight at the
expense of their families and their own "unmet needs" ... bet
on it.
Nothing short of a two-by-four with a spike sticking out
seems to get a pol's attention more than the risk of losing the best job they'll ever have.
We've already received e-mail from our first candidate, Anne
Hilbert of Weymouth. She will run as a write-in sticker candidate if her state representative, James Murphy, or her
state senator, Bob Hedlund, vote for tax increases.
Get your name on the ballot in the September primary -- with 150 votes for state rep; 300 votes for state senator -- and watch the tax-and-spend incumbent sweat, watch him or
her have to work for reelection, explain sticking his or her finger in the voter's
and taxpayer's eye!
Think of those 150-300 votes like signatures: you've
collected many more than that over the years, and the initiative
petitions you've got them for that have won with a far greater vote total
in your district!
The CLT Prop. 2½ PAC, our Joe Six-PAC, CLT members and
activists, and others will do all we can to assist getting you on the November ballot, and with however energized a campaign you
later wish to wage leading up to the November general election.
If you get your name on the general election ballot in
November ... just being there is a threat. Perhaps a very
serious one at that.
All you need to qualify is be willing to sign the No New
Taxes pledge and be determined enough that no tax-and-spend incumbent gets a free ride to re-election, only to tax us
again.
I know this is short notice but, we're looking for an
alternative for voters on as many ballots across the state as possible. We want to put
cocky, self-assured politicians-for-life on notice
that their presumed entitlement is not secure.
Chip Faulkner, our PAC director, has been working for months
with announced candidates from both the Republican and Libertarian parties in a regular working group of other
conservative leaders. There will be many announced candidates after the signature filing deadline (today) results are
certified. We won't need sticker candidates for those races, but we won't know who they finally are until tomorrow -- along
with legislators who are looking over their shoulders hoping there are no challenges so they can get a free ride
after their tax increases vote.
We at CLT do the hard work of democracy. We're here for the
long haul. If voters and taxpayers are betrayed, there must be a price paid for that treachery.
If you will be a sticker candidate for state representative
of state senator in September, please contact me IMMEDIATELY at:
cltg@cltg.org
I'll need you know your name, address, city/town and party
affiliation if any.
Let's send the arrogant crowd on Beacon Hill the strongest message, a message
they will understand better than
any other message we can send: Their job is not secure and there will be no free ride this time.
"Raise taxes at
your peril!"
This is very much doable, folks!
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Chip Ford |
YES, I WILL BE A WRITE-IN/STICKER CANDIDATE FOR
[ ] State Representative
[ ] State Senator
NAME:
ADDRESS:
CITY/TOWN:
PARTY AFFILIATION (If any):