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State Blogs

Activists plan to protest Obama in San Francisco

By Brendan Steinhauser on Oct 13, 2009

I just got a note from activists in the Bay Area of California. They plan to protest president Obama when he comes to The Westin in downtown San Francisco Thursday. If you live anywhere near there, please make an attempt to get over there and show your opposition to the president's policies.

Click here for the details.

State Press Releases

FreedomWorks’ Max Pappas to Join MoveOn.org Co-Founder Joan Blades in Panel Discussion

Nov 13, 2009

FreedomWorks Vice President for Public Policy Max Pappas has been invited by The Common Bond Institute to speak at the “Engaging the Other: The Power of Compassion” conference where he will take part in a panel discussion entitled “Building Cooperation Across Political Divides” in San Francisco, CA on November 14.

State News

Prop. 86 a Tax-the-Poor Scheme California Focus

Hospital industry singles out smokers to enrich itself.

Oct 30, 2006

If passed by the California electorate Nov. 7, Proposition 86 would almost quadruple the current tax on cigarettes to $3.47 a pack and would stand as perhaps the most ill-conceived tax increase of all time, although, to be fair, there's a lot of competition for that distinction.

The "Tobacco Tax Act of 2006" is a creation of California's hospital industry, which wrote the initiative in such a way that it will receive about 40 percent of the $2.1 billion a year the higher tax is expected to generate. Whether that figure is realistic is a point we will get to a little later.