









2008 Massachusetts Ballot Initiative ("Question 1") to End the Income Tax
Current campaigns and projects
Thank You
To the thousands of volunteers, donors and supporters
who gave voters a choice to end the income tax, we thank you with all
our hearts for your generosity.
We want to thank the talk hosts
and newspaper columnists who have done so much to expose government
waste and abuse and who supported this tax cut, especially: Howie Carr
of the Boston Herald and WRKO, Michael Graham of the Boston Herald and
WTKK, Jay Severin of WTKK, Margery Eagan of the Boston Herald and WTKK,
Dan Lovallo of the Talk of Connecticut, Scottie McCall of Money Matters
Radio, Neil Cavuto of Fox News, Glenn Beck, Michael Medved, Dr. Charles
Ormsby of The Valley Patriot, and Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe.
We
thank Steve Forbes of Forbes Magazine for endorsing Question 1, and
Steven Moore and the Wall Street Journal for supporting our efforts.
A
deep thanks to the commentators who made the case for Question 1
through letters to the editor, blogs, columns, radio and videos.
We
thank our friends Barbara, Chip, and Chip at Citizens for Limited
Taxation, and the National Taxpayers Union, Americans for Tax Reform
and Ron Paul for their support.
A warm thanks to Question 1
spokespersons Kamal Jain and Rich Aucoin who both made the case for
ending the income tax and also lent critical support to this campaign;
to tireless campaign helpers who dedicated their lives to this campaign
for over a year: Nina Haskins and Alvin Anders; and to Sue Mojica, our
tireless press coordinator.
We thank the candidates who supported Question 1 in the face of strong opposition from government employee unions and the media.
We thank the speakers at our Faneuil Hall rally who made a slam-dunk case for ending the income tax.
Craig Franklin: Thank you for being there at the beginning and being with us all the way.
A special thanks to key players: Chuck Ormsby, John Garrett, Peter Kuntz, Evan Rooney, and Joe Murphy.
Many
thanks to Harold Wolfe, Nancy Murphy, Len Mead, David Doctor, Garrett
Quinn, John Cunningham, Bob French, Michael Nystrom, Gerry Cardillo,
Gregory Barros, Brett Tomlinson, Norm Paley, Corie Whalen, Ted Tripp,
Bill Hees, Bruce Simoneau, Dan Caless, Kristina Nilsson, Matt Kinnaman,
Cynthia Stead, Chris Belkas, Mike Lints, Phil Lemos, Lenny Cooperman,
David Hudson, Christy Mihos, Kent White and Irwin Jungreis for their
support of this campaign.
Thanks to every yard sign depot, every petitioner and every volunteer who helped to get us on the ballot.
And
finally, we thank the 901,802 Massachusetts voters who did the right
thing and voted Yes on 1 to END the Massachusetts Income Tax.
It’s a vote you can take pride in for the rest of your life.