Bill Brady Rolls Out StopRod.org

State Senator Bill Brady has borrowed a page from his colleague State Senator Dan Rutherford by setting up an internet-based campaign to oppose Governor Rod Blagojevich’s tax hikes.

Rutherford did it before he ran for Secretary of State, concentrating of the fees that were imposed during Governor Blagojevich’s first year in office. I especially remember getting emails attacking the unfairness of sewage treatment fees imposed by the Illinois EPA.

Brady is attacking a larger target—the Democratic Party governor’s 6 billion Gross Receipts Tax.

Here is his press release:

Sen. Bill Brady (R-Bloomington) today launched a new website – StopRod.org – to give Illinois citizens an opportunity to learn how Governor Blagojevich’s massive new tax increase may affect them and to register their opposition to it.

“This is the largest proposed tax increase in the history of Illinois,” Brady said.

“I think it is important that consumers and businesses alike know they face higher costs and bigger government if the Governor somehow pushes this through the Democrat- controlled General Assembly. This is the governor again sticking its hands into the pockets of every business and every consumer in Illinois, to the tune of $6 billion just to pay for programs the state cannot afford today.”

“This is a tax that everyone who is concerned about the long-term economic security of Illinois should oppose. Illinois already is the eighth-worst job producing state in the nation, thanks to the Governor’s anti-job policies over the last four years.
With these new taxes, even more Illinois businesses will shut their doors or move across the stateline, and the financial vitality of Illinois families will be even more threatened,” Brady added.

No state funds are being used to support the new website, which is being paid for by Brady’s political committee, Citizens for Bill Brady.

Brady came in third in the Republican Party primary for governor in 2006.

First posted at McHenry County Blog.