| When Elise Hu highlighted RPT-TV last Friday, none of us realized Todd Hunter would be so brazen as to lie directly to voters.
The Texas Democratic Party took a quick look at Hunter's claim that he is "very, very anti-tax" and found his voting record reveals his claim to be blatantly untrue.
In 1990, while Todd Hunter was a member of the Texas House, he voted twice to increase the sales tax [HB 150, 4/19/90, RV 34, Journal 35; HB 6, 6/5/90, RV 8, Journal 25]. When Texas hit tough economic times and our family and state budgets were in crisis, Hunter wanted to burden his constituents with a regressive sales tax increase. The following year, the Oklahoma native supported increases in the gasoline tax and diesel fuel tax - hardly the actions of a "fiscally responsible" lawmaker [HB 11, 8/5/91, RV 129 Journal 712; RV 132, Journal 721].
Todd Hunter has proven that he not only wants to raise taxes, but he wants to do it in a way that disproportionately hurts the middle and lower class.
"Todd Hunter's anti-tax claim is an example of a politician at his worst, hoping voters will share his selective amnesia as he misrepresents his record of voting for tax increases," explained Texas Democratic Party Chair Boyd Richie. "At a time when many families are struggling to make ends meet, voters are looking for new, honest leadership, but all Todd Hunter has to offer is a weak attempt to hide a record of voting to raise taxes on working families and Texas businesses."
It looks like the new margins tax is bringing in less money than original estimates projected. Small businesses are struggling and families are doing everything they can just to get buy during this very real recession. Why should the people of House District 32 (or anywhere else in Texas), vote for a Republican who is going to make it harder on their pocketbooks? |
