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« Half a Million | Main | Random Goodness » February 23, 2004Big GunsThey're bringing in the big guns for the March 2 Taxpayer Bill of Rights Town Hall Meeting , an event designed to introduce the Taxpayers Bill of Rights concept to the general public and provide some momentum to legislation pending in the Tennessee legislature to put a TABOR amendment on the ballot in 2006. As proposed, the Tennessee Taxpayer Bill of Rights constitutional amendment will: 1. Cap the rate of growth of state government spending,The legislation goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 9. Here is the line-up for the March 2 Town Hall meeting: Keynote addresses by Steve Moore, president of the Club for Growth, and John Andrews, president of the Colorado State Senate, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A session with the audience and Moore, Sen. Andrews, and Tennessee TABOR sponsors Sen. Jim Bryson and Rep. Glenn Casada; plus Matt Kibbe, executive vice president of Citizens for a Sound Economy, and Drew Johnson, policy analyst with the National Taxpayer's Union Time and location: The Tennessee TABOR Town Hall meeting is sponsored by the Government Accountability Project and the National Federation of Independent Business. For more information on the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, go to www.SenatorBryson.org and click on TABOR. Also, see the Taxpayers Bill of Rights category here at HobbsOnline. From an email promoting the Town Hall meeting: Mark your calendars!!! Make your plans! The Tennessee Taxpayer Bill of Rights Town Hall Meeting will be on Tuesday, March 2 at the Nashville Sheraton downtown. The purpose of this meeting is to show the legislature that people from throughout the state and nation support the Taxpayer Bill of Rights in Tennessee. We need you to be there! A good crowd will show the legislature and the media that we are serious about passing a Taxpayer Bill of Rights this year. We need YOU!Attendance is FREE. However, Sen. Bryson's office requests you call (615-741-2495) to let them know if you are coming, so they can have an accurate count and have enough chairs. Posted in Taxpayers Bill of Rights
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Bill, I trust someone will tape this and put it up online for those of us who can't be there? And I also trust that there will be transcripts? And maybe even blogging from the event? Points to consider.... Posted by: mike hollihan at February 23, 2004 01:09 PMI doubt I can afford the bandwidth and storage costs to make a tape available online. Let me check into it. Posted by: Bill Hobbs at February 23, 2004 01:41 PMTaking a survey: IF I could get the meeting taped, and IF I could get a Windows Media file created and IF I could pay for hosting it at my blog's server, letting folks download/watch it would eat up massive bandwidth. Would you be willing to pay up to $5 to watch it? Or perhaps pay $1 for each speaker, if I divided the video into separate files? I'm not going to get rich by charging - but I would like to know if I could cover my costs. Posted by: Bill Hobbs at February 23, 2004 02:07 PMBill, Perhaps Sen. Bryson and/or Rep. Cassada could offer the video on their respective sites? Personnally, I'll have to make do with a transcript since I won't be able to attend either. Gotta work to pay the bills. Jim Posted by: Jim Moore at February 23, 2004 03:50 PMI agree with Jim. I gotta work, too. The transcript would be the most important thing. Blogging from the event (by anyone or several anyones) would be nice, and a nice touch. Video could be hosted by one of the government types on the State dime, I would hope. But video isn't as important as the transcripts. Those don't have to be fancy, or in PDF format, just accurate. Posted by: mike hollihan at February 23, 2004 11:36 PMHow about audio made available for downloading, or burned onto a CD and sent to you in the mail for a very small price to cover s&h? I think I can manage the technical stuff to provide audio easily enough - and a CD you could give to others to listen to as well. Posted by: Bill Hobbs at February 24, 2004 05:56 AMThat audio idea is a good one. Maybe one of the congresscritters can host it, or I'd spend a couple of bucks for the CD, shipped in a cardboard sleeve. Works for me! Posted by: mike hollihan at February 24, 2004 04:47 PMThat audio idea is a good one. Maybe one of the congresscritters can host it, or I'd spend a couple of bucks for the CD, shipped in a cardboard sleeve. Works for me! Posted by: mike hollihan at February 24, 2004 04:48 PMThat audio idea is a good one. Maybe one of the congresscritters can host it, or I'd spend a couple of bucks for the CD, shipped in a cardboard sleeve. Works for me! Posted by: mike hollihan at February 24, 2004 04:49 PMPost a comment
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