Our household received 2 robo calls, 1 live call and 3 mailings in the last few days from Citizens for Prosperity the Koch brothers funded political action committee.  All of the calls and mail concerned the penny tax referendum in Greenville County to fund road improvements. CItizens for Prosperity wants to convince voters that the taxes collected won’t be used for road projects it will be redirected and their favorite argument taxes are already too high. The language of the referendum is crystal clear and has been clarified by the experts so that’s bunk. The real question to me is why two billionaires http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_family  care enough about a penny sales tax referendum in little ole Greenville, SC to spend tens of thousands of dollars lobbying against it? The other curiosity is why South Carolinian’s known for their dogged dedication to doing things their own way damn the other 49 states would allow said billionaires to gain a foothold in our state’s political arena and steer the poltical conversation and affect the outcome of an issue on the ballot that will affect each and every one of us every day. I guaurantee you the Koch brothers won’t be driving on these pothold covered roads any time soon.

I tried to get some information from Nathan who called last night as a volunteer for Citizens for Prosperity and has also been quoted in the newspaper. Nathan is a lawyer from Travelers Rest but when I asked him who funded Citizens for Prosperity the group he was volunteering for he said he didn’t know. He identified the local coordinator but refused to engage on the principal funders of this million dollar organization. My impression is that Nathan is either a liar or ignorant of his masters and a willing tool for their tax killing agenda. The whole thing makes me sick. We need a constitutional amendment to overturn the CItizens United Supreme Court decision and get big money out of politics.

It should be up to the voters of Greenville County to decide how we want to fund road improvements not the Koch brothers.