Raising taxes not conservative
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Editor, the Advocate:
Goliad County voters, beware of politicians who campaign as fiscal conservatives and govern as liberals.
Commissioners Ted Long and Jim Kreneck are planning to increase the taxes of the average home of the average voter from $248.10 to $328.95 or a 32.5 percent increase!
Conservatives do not raise your taxes 32.5 percent in one year.
Are they misjudging the political fallout that may result from hanging their conservative base of voters out to dry?
Remember Sept. 13, 2004, when Commissioners Long and Kreneck both voted against the tax freeze for seniors and Democrat Judge Harold Gleinser and Commissioner Jerry Rodriguez voted for the freeze?
With Commissioner Arturo Rojas absent, it was a tie vote.
Then, two weeks later on Sept. 27, 2004, Commissioner Long made a motion to appoint a committee to "study it."
The three Democrats defeated the motion.
In less than a heartbeat, Commissioner Kreneck did a perfect John Kerry-style political flip-flop and made a motion to enact the freeze.
It was seconded by Commissioner Rodriguez and passed by a 4-0, with Commissioner Long abstaining.
As a Goliad County Republican, I am once again embarrassed by Commissioners Long and Kreneck.
David Post, Goliad
