This has been an unfortunate week for the taxpayers of this state. Yesterday, the governor signed Senate Bill 6130 into law. This suspends the Taxpayer Protection Act of 2007 (I-960). I fought against this legislation and joined my Republican colleagues and moderate Democrats in voting against it. With the will of the voters pushed aside, Democrats are now free to raise your taxes.

On Tuesday, Senate Democrats shared their 2010 supplemental operating budget and it included $918 million in n...


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