It’s being reported that pressure is being applied to termed-out Republican legislators, trying to garner support to get them to either support an increase in taxes, or to vote to place a proposal that includes a tax increase on the November ballot.

We have blogged here before about how proud we are of our Republican legislators and their uniform opposition to increased taxes.  Every termed-out Republican has actually signed a pledge from Americans for Tax Reform to oppose efforts to raise taxes.

That said, we are looking for statements from termed out Republicans re-iterating their pledge to oppose ANY efforts to raise taxes on Californians, period.

If you are terming out, and would like to send us a statement for FR readers, just e-mail it to me here, and we’ll get it up on the FR blog.  Or if you don’t want to put out a statement, but do want to let FR readers know you aren’t budging, you can let us know that, too.

We will also start the process of reaching out to these folks directly, and we’ll report back on the progress. 

As I said, I have no reason whatsover to believe that there is one Republican vote in the Capitol for a scheme to raise taxes (whether called "temporary" or what have you).  But this is a great chance for our termed out legislators to send a strong, public message to the labor unions, the Democrat leadership, the Governor and to their own supporters back home — their firm opposition to higher taxes.

(P.S.  I should add that we are including Republican State Senators who were re-elected in 2006 to a final four-year term as being "termed out" for our purposes.)

This entry was posted on Monday, August 11th, 2008 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.