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August 07, 2006

Norquist Explains Reason for TABOR

Back on July 8, I posted this entry about Grover Norquist's speech to the Prospect, in which he laid out the strategic approach to politics as he is advising the Republican party. One of the interesting parts to me was his focus on what would move votes, as opposed to what might be good policy.

And now we have another indication that for Norquist, it is all about moving votes into the Republican column. This time, he is discussing TABOR:

"Go to steal people's guns, they will leave. Raise taxes, you will break the Republican coalition. [By contrast, high spending] is nobody's vote-moving issue. What I am trying to figure out is, how do you turn it into a vote-moving issue and, therefore ... put it on the ballot."

Remember this: TABOR is about making spending a vote moving issue. It is NOT about creating good public policy. And that is straight from the horse's mouth.

Posted by Becky at August 7, 2006 10:09 AM