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There was a great letter to the editor in the Muskogee Phoenix this week about the State Supreme Court throwing out TABOR.  Check it out: The people speak: State gives TABOR unfair consideration

Mark Hillman, candidate for State Treasurer, recently signed FreedomWorks Candidate Tax Pledge vowing to oppose any increase in Colorado’s tax burden or changes to TABOR.
Hillman, a former Senate Majority Leader, has long been considered a champion of the taxpayer and staunch defender of property rights, school choice and tort reform.
FreedomWorks will be conducting statewide GOTV [...]

FreedomWorks California is springing to action on a proposed California tax hike. State leader Matt Schumsky writes: “In less than two months, Californians will vote on a new $2.60 per pack tax on cigarettes. The new tobacco tax would bring the total cigarette tax to $3.47 a pack. The ballot [...]

We just received a release from Senator Coburn’s office!! This is an important step forward, and now we’ll need to ride herd on final passage and the bill’s implementation to truly bring the promise of public disclosure and transparency to federal spending.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – U.S. Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Barack Obama [...]

Today, on page A10, The Washington Post’s Chris Cilliza wrote the following:
Presidential Run for Armey?

 
Other former shakers on Capitol Hill likewise seem to be in the mood, if not to resume shaking, to at least jiggle a little.
Witness former House majority leader Richard K. Armey (R-Tex.) who retired from the House in 2002 and has [...]

FreedomWorks is one of the groups that is part of IJ’s Castle Coalition fighting for private property rights in the wake of the Kelo decision. The September window for Congress to act is quickly closing….
http://castlecoalition.org/senatedeadline2006/.

Former FreedomWorks Co-Chairman C. Boyden Gray has a new op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about Europe’s latest regulatory scheme. Excerpt:
Chemical Reaction
By C. BOYDEN GRAY
September 6, 2006
BRUSSELS — It is well accepted that a key to unlocking Europe’s innovation, creativity and growth potential is improving its regulatory climate. This entails both cutting back outmoded [...]

Here is the story.
Dick Armey goes to Iowa:
You may have to get out your 2008 GOP scorecards and add another name to the mix. . . Well, maybe not just yet. But, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX) is clearly displeased with the lack of attention being paid but the current crop of ‘08ers [...]

 
Here is the story from Tuesday’s Roll Call, an inside the beltway publication.  Below are some excerpts from the article.

FreedomWorks, the organization dedicated to lower taxes and less government that is led by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas), will announce this week that it is spending $4 million on get-out-the-vote operations in several [...]

 
Click here to listen to Armey discuss earmarks on NPR’s Morning Edition.
Armey told NPR:
“I think it’s two to three times worse than when I was majority leader. We’ve had three years where you had Tom DeLay, who actually advocated this kind of activity. Pushed it along, where I repressed it…
The House will pass a spending [...]