In 2019, Representative Jana Della Rosa (Rogers) had a hard time finding a tax she didn’t want to increase. Although she voted for some tax relief legislation, she took it all back and more with her votes for tax increase bills. When you add together her votes for relief bills and tax increase bills the overall increase in the tax burden for Fiscal years 2020 and 2021 are $63.6 million in 2020 and $53.4 million in 2021. And this huge increase doesn’t even include her vote “FOR” HJR1018 w…
Representative Nelda Speaks (R- Mountain Home) refuses to go along with the special interests who want more taxes. That is why the tax-and-spend establishment doesn’t want her to be reelected — she stands strong for conservative principles, including the principle of lower taxes to produce economic growth. 2019 TAX VOTES Let’s compare Representative Speaks’ voting record to what the tax-and-spend majority in the legislature passed in 2019. The Arkansas legislature passed so…
Arkansas was an early leader in requiring the state and local governments to conduct their business under the public eye. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas brags on our Freedom of Information Act of 1967 this way: “The Arkansas Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), signed into law by Governor Winthrop Rockefeller on February 14, 1967, is generally considered one of the strongest and best models for open government by investigative reporters and others who research public records for various purposes. Th…
For several years Conduit For Action has been fact checking claims of candidates. We begin this year by examining Senator John Cooper’s claim he “voted to reduce overall taxes by nearly $200 million.” Senator Cooper’s tax cut claim is FALSE. Although Cooper was on the road to having a voting record of tax cuts after his first two sessions in the legislature, Cooper spent the 2019 legislative session taking tax cuts back by voting for tax increases. These votes made him an overall tax incre…
