The Five Republicans Who Voted for the Slots Amendment
According to the Baltimore Sun Special Session Blog:
D. Page Elmore, R, Somerset & Wicomico Counties
Richard K. Impallaria, R, Baltimore & Harford Counties
A. Wade Kach, R, Baltimore County
James King, R, Anne Arundel County
Richard B. Weldon Jr., R, Frederick & Washington Counties
As we noted earlier King and Kach were already weak links. If just two of these Republicans had stayed with the party leadership, we could have been talking about a possible defeat of the the tax increases.
Kudos to Nic Kipke for standing fast.
7 comments:
Sorry, but these weasels need to go more then even than the Dem Senators that didn't support the filibuster. They just enabled the Biggest tax increase ever in the history of Maryland!
Kudos to all of them -- in particular Mr. Elmore.
Slots amendment did not preclude tax package. It is a "fabrication of the state Republican Party, hoping that by defeating the referendum, Miller would kill the tax bills. He told the Senate on Friday morning that REGARDLESS of the House's vote on slots, the sales, income, and corporate tax proposals would pass. That came directly from the Senate Minority Leader, David Brinkley."
Again, you've got it completely wrong.
so your point would be that even without the convenient fig leaf of the slots bill that a tax bill of the same scope would have passed.
I don't think the votes on the tax bill bear that out. In fact, I think the votes contradict that position.
There is no doubt that some tax bill would have passed, but not the bill that did pass.
No. A tax bill of the same scope most certainly would not have passed. It would have been much larger.
As far as the votes go, I think the relative cowardice of the present but non-voting members skew any results and do not allow for extrapolation.
Wow. Nonsense like this keeps on taking the party further into non-relevancy.
I think that is a counterfactual assertion.
The tax package was at the top end of even what the Democrats could bear. There was no reason for the slots bill to even be considered in the special session as revenue won't even be available until some time in 2010.
Want to give us an example of a "higher" tax that would have passed absent the passage of a slots bill that produces $0 revenue for the next 2-3 years?
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