Taxpayer Protection Caucus Chairman

Howard County’s own Delegate Warren Miller (R-Woodbine) will become the next chairman of this caucus succeeding outgoing State Delegate Herb McMillan (R-Annapolis).

The caucus is comprised of 24 members of the House of Delegates.

“Taxpayers in Maryland can be relieved that the fiscal leadership demonstrated by Delegate Herb McMillan on their behalf will be continued with Warren Miller chairing the house taxpayer protection caucus.” said Grover Norquist, president of ATR. “Under Delegate Warren Miller’s leadership, the caucus will continue to work and fight for Maryland families and businesses who deserve to keep more of their hard earned money.”

Warren Miller is a very good choice for this position in that his views are well aligned with the Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) with whom the caucus works very closely with. 

While opposing additional tax increases is important some tax increases are warranted and I expect that Warren will exercise appropriate judgement in this position and will lead these 24 delegates as an effective voting block in order to protect taxpayers of all stripes.

The Press Release can be found here.

Analysing a Lie

This is a very interesting post from Glenn Greenwald

Did Rahm Emanuel lie about his knowledge of Mark Foley? Yes.

At the height of the Mark Foley scandal in October — when Democrats were pounding Denny Hastert and company on a daily basis for having taken no action despite knowing about the emails sent by Foley to at least one page (and for lying about their past knowledge) — Democratic Congressman (and DCCC Chair) Rahm Emanuel went on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos (along with GOP Rep. Adam Putnam). I haven’t been able to find a full transcript, but the full video is here, and this article provides an account of the segment.

Stephanopoulos explicitly asked Emanuel: “I just want to ask you plainly — did you or your staff know anything about these emails or instant messages before they came out?”

This exchange goes on and on and on with Emanuel denying any knowledge what so ever.

It is now being reported by CNN that not only was the DCCC’s Burton aware of the e-mails in 2005, but so, too, was Emanuel:

The head of the House Democrats’ campaign committee, Rep. Rahm Emanuel, had heard of former Rep. Mark Foley’s inappropriate e-mails to a former male page a year before they became public, a campaign committee aide told CNN. . . .

 What did you expect.  The guy got his training in the Clinton White House.