From: Carl DeMaio Subject: Breaking – CA Soda Tax Fizzles Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Friend-
We did it! Since January we’ve been fighting more than $15B in tax hikes pending in the California legislature. Yesterday, we got a score when backers of the absurd Soda Tax announced they were dropping the idea for this session because they did not get enough support from fellow lawmakers.
As you know, we have been targeting the 12 swing state legislators in the most vulnerable districts with an aggressive anti-tax campaign that our grassroots supporters have helped us fund. These 12 legislators are getting bombarded with calls, letters and emails from angry constituents telling them "NO NEW TAXES!"
But the Soda Tax fizzling out is just the beginning. We STILL have to peel off enough of these 12 vulnerable legislators to stop the other crazy tax hikes: Drinking Water Tax, Services Tax, Mileage Tax, Firearms Tax, Property Tax, Cell Tax, and more!
Can you help us KEEP THE PRESSURE ON by contributing to our anti-tax campaign today? Here’s the secure link.
Remember: politicians raise taxes when they don’t think there will be an organized opposition campaign to punish them. Let’s raise the funds to keep the pressure on right now and also show them we are ready to inflict consequences on them at the ballot box if they approve any of these crazy new taxes.
DeMaio Blasts Gov. Newsom After He Threatens to Withhold Gas Tax Funds for Road Repairs
“This proves exactly what we warned everyone about during the Prop 6 Gas Tax Repeal Campaign”
In releasing his proposed California state budget, Gov. Gavin Newsom included a proposal to hold back SB1 Gas Tax funds from cities unless they agree to change various housing policies. If Newsom’s proposal is enacted, taxpayers will be forced to pay the higher gas tax rates without receiving the benefit for road repairs.
“Is anyone surprised that only a few months after defeating Prop 6 that Sacramento politicians are threatening to divert our gas tax funds? This outrageous threat shows that Sacramento politicians simply cannot trusted with our gas tax funds and they are not interested in fixing our roads," said Carl DeMaio, chairman of Reform California.
DeMaio and Reform California led Yes on 6 – the Gas Tax Repeal campaign during the 2018 election cycle, activating an army of over 30,000 volunteers who helped collect nearly 1 million signatures to qualify Prop 6 to get it on the Nov 6 ballot, and who later helped the proposition earn 45% of the vote despite the campaign being outspent 22-to-1.
Former San Diego City Councilman and Congressional candidate came up to Torrance, CA to help rally the troops for the repeal of the hateful, dreaded gas tax, the car tax, and the passage of a constitutional amendment to ensure that the state could never raise the gas tax again without vote consent first.
The room was filled up with no chairs to spare, and yet people continued to attend.
Keep in mind that this meeting took place on Monday afternoon. It is very difficult to get people to do anything political on a Monday mid-morning or afternoon.
But there we were.
There is a lot of momentum to repeal the gas tax.
The Reform California movement got rid of State Senator Josh Newman.
Now we need to repeal this dreaded gas tax.
Then we will start knocking out all the other state senators who plowed the average California worker with higher taxes and fees.
Here are the three videos I recorded for this event:
The California Democratic Party is falling apart, fast.
They are desperate to hold onto power, but they are fraying from within and flailing from without.
The California Nurses Association has declared war on Speaker Anthony Rendon. One of the state senators Josh Newman, is the target of a successful and growing recall effort.
President Trump's policies are forcing the illegal aliens to flee the state of California.
More good news: Assemblyman and gubernatorial candidate Travis Allen's gas tax repeal has made it onto the ballot for the November 2018 Election.
The California Democratic Party is facing the populist revolt in-house which had propelled President Trump into the White House last year!
Check out what the creepy, evil Democrats in Sacramento are trying to pull now!
From the desk of Carl De Maio:
Friend– In the past three weeks we have seen the most outrageous abuse
of power by Sacramento politicians to try to stop our effort to repeal the car
and gas tax hikes - and these desperate antics only tell me that we are
winning. Here's the latest stunt they
pulled:
Sacramento politicians are actually suing three college students who
signed the initial paperwork to trigger the Recall effort with the hope of
pressuring them to rescind their sponsorship of the effort. They are college students after all - with no
financial resources to afford a legal defense.
This is pure harassment and bullying and that's why our campaign
coalition is mounting a vigorous legal defense for these college students.
Unreal yet true. Of course, they filed the legal challenge in Sacramento County, since that means that they students will have to exhaust further resources by driving, commuting, etc at least six hours to go to court.
Or they have to pay lawyers to do it, I guess. How pathetic can one get?! Now "The Democracy" harasses young people. They just can't it through their heads that California citizens are fed up with being treated like second class serfs who have to pay for the hoity-toity elite to party on our dime.
Not any more.
Will you stand with these three colleges students against these
bullying tactics? Please contribute
whatever you can to our campaign today at this secure link.
Fortunately, every time the Sacramento politicians have attacked us, we
have prevailed - but only with YOUR help.
First the politicians hired "blockers" to intimidate and
harass our volunteers collecting signatures - but with YOUR help we hired
college students to collect almost 100,000 signatures to qualify the
initiative! Then the politicians passed
a law that in-effect strips citizens of the right to Recall politicians in a
timely manner, but with YOUR help we got our signatures in before the law went
into effect.
I was there at one event to push off the hateful anti-recall bigots. One of them refused to explain to me why it's OK to tax poor and working Californians who barely make ends meet as it is:
Sacramento politicians are desperate with these abusive tactics. They know two things: 1) Our campaign will
strip them of the two-thirds majority they need to raise taxes without a public
vote. 2) Our car/gas tax repeal measure
will be on the ballot in November 2018 and it will become the focus of
California's political debate and will negatively impact their re-election
efforts.
The winning never stops!
Thank God for this movement. This is the kind of fight we need to see more from grassroots activists and elected officials. Too many Republicans refuse to right. Too many of them have played nice with the Democrats, and what has it given us?
More debt, more corruption, more waste and fraud, and more destruction within our once beautiful state. Democrats have to go, but so do the RINOs who go along with the corrupt program.
Our campaign strategy is working - and is the only viable effort we
have to take back California! Please
stand with us today by making a contribution so we can continue our record of
success in overcoming the abusive tactics of Sacramento politicians. Contribute here.
