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Meldrim Thomson, Jr.He finally won the governorship in 1972 after a campaign in which he pledged to veto any new sales or income tax that was put on his desk, and further promised not to raise existing taxes.
Judy Wasylycia-LeisWasylycia-Leis also played a central role in the debate surrounding the introduction of additional tax on Income Trusts in the' Tax Fairness Plan' introduced by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty on October 31, 2006.
Donald H. MagnusonOn May 22, 1959, Magnuson voted for an addition to the public works bill in an Appropriations subcommittee for $ 724,000 to start the Greater Wenatchee reclamation project.
Thomas DiNapoliHe unveiled a package of proposed reforms to the budget process in March 2010.
James Bernard HarkinBy 1929, the Jasper Parks superintendent was desperately seeking financial support and asked Harkin for $ 20,000 to go towards work-for-relief projects, but Harkin refused.
Ralph A. LoveysAs chairman of the Assembly Insurance Committee, Loveys and Assembly Speaker Chuck Hardwick announced plans in March 1987 to introduce legislation that would cut premium rates for bodily insurance coverage by 36 %, yielding a reduction of $ 90 per year for drivers.
Jim EdgarBy the time he left office in January 1999, Governor Edgar had eliminated the backlog in payments of the state's bills, given the state a surplus and reduced the size of state government.
Tony ClementIn the lead-up to the 2010 G8 summit, Clement was involved in directing $ 50 million of border security money for largely unrelated projects in his own riding, a practice commonly known as'' pork barrelling''.
David ShaferIn 2005, Shafer attached an amendment to the charter of the City of Sandy Springs which prevented the Mayor and Council from increasing city property taxes above the existing millage rate without a referendum.
Greg BallardIn August 2010, Mayor Greg Ballard and the Office of Sustainability announced a program that provides incentives for property owners and developers to renovate or construct new buildings in a sustainable manner.
Lorraine MichaelIn May 2010, she called for the House of Assembly to urge government to increase funding to help problem gamblers and establish a new plan for reduction leading to elimination of VLTs.
Gary Doer Since his first election in 1999, Doer has been a leading opponent of a water diversion in Devils Lake, North Dakota that many regard as posing a serious environmental threat to Manitoba.
Steve LathropIn 2008, Senator Lathrop assisted with the passage of LB 629, which created a rural Community-Based Energy Development (CBED) program to allow local property owners and communities to develop wind energy projects.
Vincent C. GrayIn 2008, Gray successfully led his Council colleagues in passing the'' Pre-K Enhancement and Expansion Act of 2008'', His campaign adopted the slogan, commonly used during his time as Council Chairman,'' One City.
E. B. FarnumOn August 18, 1876, he was elected mayor, winning 672 votes out of 1,139 ; in this position he was active in convincing the Dakota Territories to officially recognize the town and establish a nearby Army post, as well as instituting a pest house to quarantine those with communicable disease s (a smallpox epidemic striking the town in 1876) and a system of street cleaning, all to be funded out of licensing fees for town businesses.
James Allan (politician)In 1958, Allan became Frost's finance minister, and introduced the province's first sales tax, nicknamed the'' Frost bite'' at a rate of 3 %.
Paul KrekorianBLOCK24 Energy and the Environment Highlighting his independence, the councilman repeatedly stood with ratepayers and led the fight against proposed rate increases sought by the Department of Water and Power in 2010.
Darrell DexterDexter campaigned on a document called Better Deal 2009 which came with 50 promises to be completed over 4 years, and focused on 7 key commitments of creating new jobs, helping to keep emergency rooms open, taking the HST off of home electricity, fixing rural roads, helping seniors, giving young people a reason to stay in the province, and more renewable energy.
Fay VincentVincent worked with both the owners and MLBPA, and on March 19, 1990, Vincent was able to announce a new Basic Agreement (which raised the minimum major league salary from $ 68,000 to $ 100,000 and established a six-man study committee on revenue sharing).
Ger?nimo LluberasThis proposal and Lluberas' comprehensive view of Belle Anse's needs laid the groundwork for the creation in 2003 of the nonprofit HERO (Health & Education Relief Organization) to build clinics, schools and basic infrastructure throughout the country.
Bob TaftIn 2005, Taft mandated that the Ohio Department of Transportation use of B20 biodiesel and of E85 ethanol per year, while selecting flex-fuel vehicles for new purchases.
Ronald ReaganQuestions arose whether Reagan's policies benefited the wealthy more than those living in poverty, Along with Reagan's 1981 cut in the top regular tax rate on unearned income, he reduced the maximum capital gains rate to only 20 %.
Paul Krekorian Jobs As the state battled to pass a balanced budget in early 2009, Krekorian authored a historic bill to ensure media production in California stays local.
David Van OsMuch of his funding for his 2006 campaign came from contributions of $ 20 to $ 100 from low to medium income donors who met him during his 254 county'' Whistle stop'' Campaign Tour or read about him on the blogs.
Gary DoerIn early 2007, Doer said that Manitoba would not enter a free trade deal signed between Alberta and British Columbia.
Steve Forbes In 1985, President Ronald Reagan appointed Forbes as head of the Board of International Broadcasting (BIB), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty He helped craft Christine Todd Whitman's plan for a thirty percent cut in New Jersey's income tax over three years, and this plan proved to be a major factor in her victory over incumbent Governor James Florio.
Mark B. CohenRepresented by Daniel Ocko, Cohen intervened as a plaintiff before the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission in the Act 129 Pennsylvania electric utility energy efficiency and conservation proceedings of PECO Energy Company filed on March 2, 2009, seeking to secure greater energy conservation benefits for low-income residents of Pennsylvania.
Douglas Bruce In 2007, Bruce began a series of challenges to the City of Colorado Springs' creation of a Stormwater Enterprise Fee, which he contended amounted to an illegal tax collected by a government entity.
John A. Russo (politician)In 2002, John served as president of the League of California Cities spearheading initiatives to protect local tax revenues from state fiscal mismanagement and amend California's Constitution to ensure public access to government records and decision-making.
Joseph BrunoIn 2005, Bruno proposed research into high speed rail development in New York State as part of a plan to boost Upstate New York's economy.
Iain Duncan SmithIn January 2012 Duncan Smith said that imposing a planned # 26,000-a-year benefits cap would not lead to a rise in homelessness or child poverty.
Hugh DaltonIn one of his budgets, Dalton significantly increased spending on education (which included # 4 million for the universities and the provision of free school milk), # 38 million for the start (from August 1946) of family allowances, and an additional # 10 million for Development Areas.
Kathy CorriganShe advocated that the province should cover the full costs of the 2011 Stanley Cup riot review, rather than cost-sharing with the Metro Vancouver municipalities and sought to have the Legislative Assembly join Ontario and Quebec in lobbying the federal government for funds to implement the proposed Safe Streets and Communities Act.
Sam Katz In 2009, Katz pledged to keep property taxes in The City of Winnipeg frozen for the twelfth straight year.
Douglas BruceA strict advocate for limited government, Bruce wrote and promoted TABOR, a spending limitation measure approved by Colorado voters in 1992 ; his name is so associated with the measure that attempts to bypass its restrictions are known as'' de-Brucing.''
Laurent FabiusIn 1985, the Fabius Government increased the wealth tax in order to provide subsidies for organisations providing basic services such as hot meals, agreed to make empty housing and surplus food stocks available, and decided to provide a basic allowance of 40 francs per day for some of the unemployed over the age of 50 who had been left out of the benefit scheme.
Larry O'Brien (Canadian politician) On April 18, 2007, O'Brien launched a 1,000-day transformation campaign in which he reviewed how the city's services were made, along with how the decisions were made at City Hall.''
Mike Brown (Cincinnati Bengals owner)In 1996, Hamilton County voters passed a one-half percent sales tax increase to fund the building of a new facility for the Bengals and a second new facility for the Major League Baseball Cincinnati Reds.
Calvin CoolidgeJust before the Republican Convention began, Coolidge signed into law the Revenue Act of 1924, which decreased personal income tax rates while increasing the estate tax, and creating a gift tax to reinforce the transfer tax system.
A. Judson ClarkAn active Republican, he next was secretary of the Board of Assessment and Revision of Taxes and Receiver of Taxes (ca. 1888).
Peter RoskamAmericans for Tax Reform named Roskam'' Hero of the Taxpayer'' in 2005 for his opposition to HB-755 which would have raised income and sales taxes by 67 % or nearly $ 7 billion.
Ronnie MusgroveIn July 2001, Governor Musgrove signed a bill that implemented the largest teacher pay increase in state history -- raising teacher's pay in Mississippi to the Southeastern average.
David Hermancehtml In July 2006, Hermance testified before the United States House Committee on Government Reform on the topic :'' Hybrid Cars : Increasing Fuel Efficiency and Reducing Oil Dependence.''
Laurent BlanchardIn explaining this decision, he noted that the relevant call for tenders had been issued in late 2012, a few weeks before the city adopted more stringent contracting rules ; he further argued that issuing a new call would result in delays and unsafe road conditions.''
Ann Cavoukian In November 2007, the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) announced plans to expand its video surveillance program which resulted in a formal complaint to Commissioner Cavoukian from Privacy International, a U. K. - based organization, citing concerns that the TTC's proposed expansion was a violation of privacy laws.
Chen ChuWhile her DPP colleague and legislator Kuan Bi-ling advised Chen to give up the appeal and allow a by-election, In December 2007, after her mayoralty was proven indisputable, she announced that her new goal is to focus on improving the city's transportation, public construction, and environmental protection.
Pat WigginsOther legislative initiatives included : In October 2001, then Wiggins brought together representatives of Napa County and all of its cities and urged them to plan collectively for the area's long-term housing needs.
Bruce M. BolinIn the spring of 1984, Bolin was one of twenty-eight representatives who voted against a 1 percentage point increase in the state sales tax, which was nevertheless pushed to passage by then Governor Edwin Edwards.
William M. TuckHe also promised'' massive resistance'' to the Supreme Court's 1954 decision banning segregation, Brown v. Board of Education, and helped draft the Stanley plan -- a series of state laws designed to legally avoid Brown.
Damishi SangoIn March 2002 Sango described Dariye's recent creation of new districts and Chiefdoms as cosmetic, doing nothing to solve the urgent need to improve road and hospitals, power, water and schools.
Italia Federici Federici founded CREA with Norton and Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist, a college friend of Abramoff, in 1997 with money Federici inherited ; The organization was also funded by, and supported the goals of, mining and other industries.
Mark WarnerAlso in 2012, he pushed the Office of Personnel Management to address the chronic, sometimes year-long backlog in processing retirement benefits for federal workers, many of whom live in Washington's northern Virginia suburbs.
Joe PantaloneOn October 6, 2010 outgoing Toronto mayor David Miller announced that he would be supporting Pantalone Pantalone's campaign emphasized continuance of the existing plans of the current administration, with particular focus on large scale transit expansion in the form of the Transit City initiative negotiated with the provincial Ontario government by the Miller administration.
Mimi WaltersWalters introduced a package of bills in February 2011 to address the California pension crisis, SB520 through SB 528.
David Miller (Canadian politician)Miller's first budget was passed by city council in late April 2004, by a vote of 29-10.
R. T. RybakIn August 2007, after the collapse of the I-35W Mississippi River bridge, Rybak asked Governor Tim Pawlenty and Minnesota state officials to implement its replacement, ensuring that the new bridge would be capable of handling mass transit.
Ross McClellanHe influenced many key policy decisions, including the decision to raise welfare rates by 22 % and to protect the rates from cuts, to maintain and expand Ontario's stand-alone social housing program, as well as the government's decision not to introduce public auto insurance in 1991.
Matthew Landy SteenSteen and fellow council member Walt Wilson introduced this motion which was adopted unanimously by the municipal council This action proved to have a ripple effect, with the State of Nevada adding this option to the state ballot in 1986.
Nicolas Sarkozy35th G8 summit | G-8 Summit in 2009 Sarkozy's UMP majority prepared a budget that reduced taxes, in particular for upper middle-class people, allegedly in an effort to boost GDP growth, but did not reduce state expenditures.
Trent FranksIn August 1995, Arizonans for an Empowered Future, of which Franks was chairman, launched an initiative campaign to amend the state constitution, replacing the graduated state income tax with a flat 3.
Dud LastrapesIn 1985, Lastrapes recommended a 2 percent sales tax increase ; voters approved it, along with a bond referendum that included the Camellia bridge.
Howard MoscoeIn 1999, Moscoe began a lobbying effort to have a percentage of provincial revenues directed toward the TTC.
Ray Watson (broadcaster) ; State powers, 2003 Watson strongly criticized State Senator Dean Florez for introducing a bill that would have banned all dairies within three miles of any school or urban area, to improve air quality.
Woody JenkinsIn 1989, Jenkins joined a coalition of mostly supporters of Edwin Edwards to defeat a tax reform referendum designed by the Roemer administration to reduce sales tax es and state income tax es while raising property tax es.
Austin HopkinsonHe strongly criticised as'' humbug'' the 1922 budget which reduced income tax without any corresponding reduction in government spending.
Randi WeingartenIn October 2012, however, after what the New York Times called `` months of intense and late-night negotiations,'' Weingarten and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie reached a `` landmark compromise,'' agreeing on a new contract for teachers in the Newark school system.
Levi BooneAnticipating the passage by referendum of a Maine law to prohibit the sale of beverage alcohol in June 1855, he got the city council to pass an ordinance which raised the cost of liquor licenses by from $ 50 to $ 300 a year, while limiting the term to 3 months, and attempted to enforce an old and disregarded ordinance to close taverns on Sundays.
Helen Shiller In November, 1987, Shiller's first budget cycle, she recommended to the Budget Committee that the City cancel a federal grant for the Uptown Chicago Commission (UCC), a 32-year-old community group in Uptown that often contended on issues with the Heart of Uptown Coalition, of which Shiller was co-chairman with Walter'' Slim'' Coleman.
Wendy GreuelIn 2004, Greuel helped establish the Office of Public Safety, which consolidated all city-operated security forces (other than the LAPD) and created the Police Fund, a program through which any elected official could address inefficiencies and allocate the money saved to the hiring of new police officers.
Eugene DePasquale On July 7, 2008, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell joined DePasquale to officially sign DePasquale's alternative energy bill, the Alternative Energy Investment Act (Special Session H. B 1), as part of the Energy Independence Strategy.
Alistair DarlingOn 13 May 2008 Darling announced he would help low-paid workers hit by the scrapping of the 10p rate, by raising this year's personal tax allowance by # 600 funded by borrowing # 2.
Ellen RobertsDuring the 2008 legislative session, Roberts introduced a bill, drafted and lobbied for by Colorado students, to create a legislative youth advisory council.
Jonathan LavineIn 2012 he provided a pledge of $ 10 million that allowed City Year to `` build the capacities needed for achieving the impact and scale goals of City Year's Long-Term Impact strategy.''
David Miller (Canadian politician)In his campaign platform, released November 1, 2006, Miller promised 4,000 units of affordable housing, a mandatory lobbyist registry, and a further expansion of the green bin program into apartments and condominiums.
Michael Madigan Madigan opposed Blagojevich's proposed gross receipts tax in 2007, which would have been the largest tax increase in Illinois history.
Wayne DeAngeloIn early March 2009, as Governor Corzine was preparing to present his new state budget for the next fiscal year, Assemblyman DeAngelo made it clear that he would oppose Corzine's plan for a wage freeze and furloughs for public employees.
Bob TaftLater in 2005, Taft urged the U. S. Congress to extend tax credits to those who install fuel cell electricity stations.
Brian CalleyHe regularly travels the state advocating administration projects including the 2011 tax reform package, autism insurance reform and approval of the New International Trade Crossing.
Frank PetermanIn 2007, Peterman supported renewal of the Pinellas County Local Option Sales Tax.
Tom HackbarthOn October 5, 2009, he announced a renewal of the effort to build a Vikings stadium without increasing taxes on Minnesota citizens.
John KeyIn regard to addressing the social destruction caused by binge drinking, in 2008 Key voted for an ill-fated attempt to raise the legal drinking age from 18 back to 20 but subsequently ignored a Law Commission recommendation to increase levies on alcohol.
Pat Quinn (politician)As Lieutenant Governor, he repeated the tactic in 2006, urging consumers to include a tea bag when paying their electricity bills, to protest rate hikes by Commonwealth Edison.
Howard MoscoeAs early as 1979, he brought forward a motion to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities calling for senior levels of government to provide operating and capital costs for public transit in cities.
John G. RichardsonThe following term, as chair of the Business and Economic Development Committee, he sponsored and wrote the economic development bond bill that passed on the June 2002 ballot.
Howard Moscoe Moscoe played a significant role in Metro Council's deliberations over market value tax reform in late 1992, working with three Progressive Conservative councillors to broker a last-minute compromise on the issue.
Hazen S. PingreeDuring the severe nationwide depression of 1893, Pingree expanded the public welfare programs, initiated public works for the unemployed, built new schools, parks, and public baths.
Harry A. DeMasoLater in 1972, he stated'' It's a lot easier for a governor and legislators to levy a tax on cigarettes, tobacco products, liquor, and beer, than to levy broad-based taxes.''
Ernie FletcherOne of Fletcher's priorities that was not resolved during the session was the correction of unintended tax increases on businesses that resulted from the tax reform plan passed in 2005.
Douglas BruceBruce was again successful at placing a measure targeting the Stormwater Enterprise on the ballot in 2009, despite challenges from the city that signatures were not submitted in time, but not after Bruce lost disputes over the wording of the ballot measures.
Linda R. Greenstein In June 2008, Greenstein stated her support for the `` Go Big On Wind Initiative.''
Bill ClintonOn February 15, 1993, Clinton made his first address to the nation, announcing his plan to raise taxes to cap the budget deficit.
Judith ZaffiriniIn 2013, Zaffirini will push for the issuance of tuition revenue bonds to fund capital construction projects on state college and university campuses, including TAMIU in Laredo.
Mark LevinLevin won election to the Cheltenham school board in 1977 on a platform of reducing property tax es.
Tim PawlentyIn 2009 he bolstered education funding using federal stimulus grants.
Dickey Lee HullinghorstShe spearheaded the 2003 creation of the'' Boulder County Countywide Coordinated Comprehensive Development Plan Intergovernmental Agreement,'' or'' Super IGA,'' governing Boulder County development and land-preservation policies over a two-decade timeframe.
Shawn GrahamIn Graham's 2009 state of the province address, he pledged to make the economy his government's top priority and amended the three Es from his campaign platform (formerly education, energy and the economy) to read,'' the economy, the economy, and the economy.''
Richard NixonNixon vetoed the Clean Water Act of 1972 -- objecting not to the policy goals of the legislation but to the amount of money to be spent on them, which he deemed excessive.
Tom Smith (Pennsylvania politician)In 1977, the board created an income tax, and he voted for the `` Local Tax enabling Act.''
Willie Brown (politician)In 1998, Brown was Mayor during the summer of the Muni meltdown as Muni implemented the new ATC system and Brown promised riders there would be better times ahead.
Tom White (Nebraska politician) During the 2010 session of the Nebraska Legislature, White led a bipartisan group of senators that worked to repeal the sales tax on the unfunded federal sewer mandate and infrastructure replacement project in the metro Omaha area.