Sometimes you do something and you get an unexpected benefit.  Kind of like if you go to the movies, and find out that it is "free poporn night" after you get there.  You would still have bought the ticket to see the movie — but the free popcorn is an added bonus of sorts.

Being berated by the Sacramento Bee in an editorial this morning for being an "anti-tax jihadist" was the furthest thing on my mind when I quickly threw together a prospective resolution for the State GOP Covention to take any GOP legislators to task that vote for or support a tax increase as part of a solution to the state overspending-created fiscal deficit.

That said, the Bee’s hit piece on me is definitely the "free popcorn" in this deal.  LOVE IT.

Even better is this outstanding commentary from San Diego Union Tribune Editorial Board Member Chris Reed, where he comes to my defense, and really lays out the Bee’s Editorial Board.  It’s a MUST READ REED!

I should probably make it clear, as well, that my resolution wasn’t intended to be mean-spirited — like I have said, I haven’t spoken with ANY Republican legislators who are prepared to vote for a tax increase (although I heard my buddy Anthony Adams say it on a podcast of the John and Ken Show — but even he tied that willingness to consider a pro-tax vote to some mythical "deal" that would be so good as to justify heaping billions upon billions in new taxes on Californians).

My resolution was really the natural extension of a discussion I have been having with people for a while now — which is that the party needs to have an ongoing relationship with our officeholders after they are elected.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.