Who's giving what for, against meals tax
Submitted by jaydub on 10/27/2008 - 13:47Durham Citizens Against the Food Tax has received $26,570.45 worth of in-kind contributions while the Durham Prepared Meal Tax Committee has taken in $87,550 in kind and cash from Durham and Raleigh sources.
Pig protests prepared-food tax
Submitted by jaydub on 10/24/2008 - 12:15Durham’s proposed prepared-food tax has provoked a pig protest.
Dallas Woodhouse, North Carolina chairman of the anti-tax group Americans for Prosperity, said Friday he will be driving around town Monday with a 25-foot-long pig emblazoned “Stop higher taxes.”
Meals-tax opponents open campaign
Submitted by jaydub on 09/30/2008 - 16:35Durham Citizens Against the Food Tax opens its campaign Wednesday with a 10:30 a.m. press conference is at Devine’s Restaurant & Sports Bar, 904 W. Main St., organizer Dallas Woodhouse said Tuesday.
Restaurants display anti-tax signs
Submitted by samihakhanna on 09/30/2008 - 12:33
If you're heading out to eat around Durham, be on the lookout for these notable blue signs protesting the county's proposed 1-percent foods tax.
The blue "No Food Tax" signs, like this one seen in the window of Fishmonger's Restaurant and Oyster Bar, refer viewers to this Web site.
Voters will be given the opportunity Nov. 4 to decide whether the county levies the tax, which would apply to prepared food and beverages at restaurants and some items at grocery stores. Read more in a Jim Wise story here.
(Fishmonger's owner Gary Bass is out of town and unavailable for comment.)
Weather grounds balloon ride protest over Edwards estate
Submitted by mdees on 07/09/2008 - 15:49Bad weather forced the anti-tax group Americans for Prosperity to
postpone plans to sail a hot-air balloon reading "Global Warming
Alarmism: Lost Jobs, higher Taxes, Less Freedom" over John Edwards'
Orange County estate.
Dallas Woodhouse, N.C. director of the grassroots group, said the stunt
was o point out what he sees as Edwards' hypocrisy on the global
warming issue, calling for reduced energy consumption while living in a
28,000-square-foot house.
It's part of a nationwide "Hot Air Tour" sponsored by Americans for
Propserity that also has flown over Al Gore's large Tennessee home.
A spokeswoman for the Edwardses released a statement from the couple
calling the demonstration a "sad attempt to throw political mud" and
noting that the house does get some of its energy from solar panels.
