I noticed this over at NH Insider and thought to myself a few things:
NH GOP SUPPORTS WIECZOREK’S CALL TO REVISIT TOLL INCREASE
Contact: Fergus Cullen, Chairman, New Hampshire Republican Party
NH GOP SUPPORTS WIECZOREK’S CALL TO REVISIT TOLL INCREASE
CONCORD – New Hampshire Republican Party Chairman Fergus Cullen releases this statement following Executive Councilor Ray Wieczorek’s call to reconsider the recently passed Lynch toll increase:
"The Lynch toll tax increase was poorly thought-out, evidenced by Councilor Hollingworth’s last-minute idea of raising Hampton tolls even higher than Governor Lynch’s administration proposed. Giving a government agency more money than it asks for is never a good idea, especially one like the Department of Transportation, where mismanagement during the Lynch administration has resulted in about half of transportation money being spent on other things. At a minimum, Gov. Lynch and the Executive Council should review whether the additional $8 million in toll taxes over the DOT’s original request is really necessary."
Posted on Thursday, October 11, 2007 at 07:38AM
So, here are my thoughts:
- I agree with Doug (as he pointed out here, why didn’t he think about this before hand?) – yeah, why not?
- How come I saw this at NH Insider and NOT posted over at the NH Republican site too (in fact, given it is now 12:08pm, it still isn’t there)
- Poorly though-out? It seemed sufficiently well thought out for our two "low-tax" Republicans to vote for it, right?
- What about our other Republican Councilor, Ray Burton? No mention at all from the State Party HQ in this press release, eh? I guess that he must think that this is a grand idea to raise taxes. To amplify the previous; so much for our Republican state leadership in showing leadership for the Republican ideal of lower taxes / smaller government.
I had an email conversation with some of the leadership a while ago….it might be instructive for those of us at the grass roots to see (and perhaps understand [I sure didn’t]) the reasoning by which this action might be construed as ok.
Or, at least, not sufficiently worthy to be held accountable (think: permissible anarchy in the party).
