Sales tax ballot measure needs more support

Fri, Jul 17 2009 — Source: Maine Public Broadcasting Network

Republican opponents of a new law that broadens the state sales tax vow to overturn it at the ballot box through a so-called “people’s veto”. But the sole political action committee set up to organize the movement has thus far failed to garner any financial support. GOP leaders, however, maintain that unlike other people’s veto campaigns with paid circulators, theirs will be a true grass roots initiative.

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