Civitas board chair Luddy to withhold $25k donation, cites liberal spending
Published May 21, 2015
by Brian Balfour, Civitas Review Online, May 19, 2015.
The following email was sent from Civitas Institute Board Chair Bob Luddy to House Republican Caucus members expressing his opinion of the "Liberal House spending plan":
Subject: House Budget, Major new spending and no Tax Relief
Dear House Caucus Members,
Since 2010, I've given consistently to help elect House Republicans. We now find that based on the Republican budget, special interests such as film producers, non-competitive solar energy manufacturers and out of state companies are favored over hard-working taxpayers and North Carolina businesses.
I had planned to donate $25,000 this year to the House Republican Caucus to help re-elect a conservative super-majority.
Unfortunately, after seeing the $1.3 billion in additional spending and no across the board tax relief in the proposed house budget I had to reconsider.
Today, I decided to give the $25,000 intended for the House Caucus to Americans for Prosperity NC to fight the Liberal House spending plan.
BL
May 21, 2015 at 9:44 am
bruce stanley says:
Point well made, Bob Luddy! NC businesses have been taken for granted for years until 2013 tax reform. Let's not revert back to tax dollars for special interests.
May 21, 2015 at 10:57 am
Richard L Bunce says:
Good, elected officials need to be held to their campaign positions, they owe that to the people that supported them and voted for them. Contrary to popular sentiment in the press when their candidate lost, the elected official does not owe those that did not support them and did not vote for them. Doing what you promised in the campaign IS representing everyone in the district.
