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Poizner's past support of taxes could haunt him
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Category | Speculative |
Author | Steven Harmon |
Media | Newspaper - San Jose Mercury News |
News Date | Wednesday, August 26, 2009 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | SACRAMENTO — Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner would just as well bury his past support for taxes as he seeks the Republican gubernatorial nomination amid fears that levies could be on the table as the state remains mired in an economic funk.
The problem for him is that his previous life as a moderate who considered taxes as a way to improve education is making it hard for conservative talk radio hosts and red-state bloggers — and presumably grass-roots followers — to swallow Poizner's newfound conservative pitch.
"I absolutely do not buy his sudden fiscal conservatism," conservative blogger Warner Todd Huston said. "His entire history suggests otherwise."
Poizner's campaign went so far as to erase a passage earlier this month from his campaign Web site indicating his association with EdVoice, an education advocacy group he cofounded in 2006 that backed a losing ballot initiative, Proposition 88. The measure would have raised parcel taxes by $500 million. |
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