OCPA Impact To Challenge Boren Tax Petition Thursday Morning
Advocacy organization to protest OU President David Boren’s penny tax proposal
by Andrew Clark, OUDaily.com
A nonpartisan advocacy organization will protest OU President David Boren’s penny sales tax proposal tomorrow morning in Oklahoma City.
OCPA Impact is protesting Initiative Petition 403 — Boren’s proposal — because it believes the petition uses unconstitutional language, according to Dave Bond, the organization’s CEO.
“Regardless of the pros or cons of a policy proposal, it’s important that constitutional guidelines and restrictions be respected and adhered to,” Bond said. “And so the protest we will file Thursday morning will merely be related to that.”
Bond would not expand specifically on what language in the petition is unconstitutional, but said that the group will discuss this at a press briefing tomorrow during its protest.
Thank you OCPA and David Bond for challenging this unconstitutional attempt by David Boren to raise taxes (under the guise of raising teacher salaries in Oklahoma) when the power of the purse belongs to our elected Oklahoma Legislature, not the President of an Oklahoma University.
You are a true Oklahoman