Granite State Dem Leaders: If you listen closely, you can almost hear them as they plot to tax us in ways unimagined only a short while ago...
No matter whose interpretation you accept, you know that at the end of the day, Biundo's take is accurate, and most thinking persons will know this. What am I talking about? This video:
Here's what Michael Biundo, Chairman of the NH Advantage had to say about what was caught on tape:
As Chairman of the New Hampshire Advantage Coalition, I have made it my commitment to fight against higher taxes and keep spending to a reasonable level. Just this year we started spending cap drives in eight communities and instituted our "Defending the New Hampshire Advantage Pledge". The goal of the pledge and our spending cap proposals are to keep spending levels low enough that we do not need an income tax and that we do not lose our low tax advantage.
These are not Republican proposals, these are not Democrat proposals, they are New Hampshire proposals.
I have to be honest though, I am amazed that not one elected Democrat has signed our pledge and have found it even more amazing that their Chairman Ray Buckley and their former Chairman Kathy Sullivan have spent time on progressive websites like Blue New Hampshire attacking our efforts. I guess what they don’t realize is that about 25-30% of the people who sign our spending cap proposals are in fact Democrats.
Perhaps this video will shed some light on why they are attacking our efforts and why spending in Concord under John Lynch and the current Democrat leadership has increased 17.5%. Maybe if you listen closely, you will even hear what some Democrats leaders (including their Chairman) really think about an income tax.
To which NH Dem Party Chair Ray Buckley replied,
as reported by Brian Lawson over at PolitickerNH,
"So what is the point of the video? Governor Lynch will veto an income tax if it reaches his desk or that a local woman at the Plymouth Democratic office doesn't support his decision to pledge to veto it?
The woman's concern was Governor Lynch's rock solid opposition to an income tax
and that he took "the pledge" to veto an income tax- that is very clear. She said that if an "anti-pledge" candidate was running she would support that candidate, which I replied "of course", since that was very clear that she opposed taking "the pledge." I then made the point that one doesn't have to agree with every position of every candidate to support them," Buckley said in an e-mail.
So, does anybody think this means Buckley OPPOSES an income tax for NH? Please!
As an aside, I thought the heads up to the presence of a camera was quite telling as well. Maybe Mr. Buckley isn't all that far from NHGOP Chair Fergus Cullen on the video-taping issue after all... Heh! 
We all know Jeanne Shaheen's not so fond of the video "trackers" either 
(More on "trackers" here)
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Posted by: Alan | July 22, 2008 3:05 PM