Today Jon Coupal, President of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association appropriately demanded an apology from Assembly Speaker Karen Bass after she called Californians who oppose tax increases, in a word, "terrorists.

Speaker Bass used that word several times during an interview with the Los Angeles Times.  She said that Republican members of the legislature, "operate under a terrorist threat" and that they are "terrorized" against voting for [taxes]."

Bass mentioned the recall effort being mounted against Assemblyman Anthony Adams by concerned citizens, and went on to say, "I don’t know why we allow that kind of terrorism to exist."

Coupal (pictured) condemned these statements as outrageous — saying, "For the State of California’s Speaker of the Assembly to call the people of California ‘terrorists’ is despicable.  For the highest-ranking member of the California State Assembly to engage in such name-calling is not only a disgrace, but to use a loaded term that has a deeply sensitive meaning to so many people, well, it is completely inappropriate. She owes the people of California an apology.

We here at the FlashReport would be pleased to post up an apology from the Speaker.  You can just email us to it here.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.