WOULD THERE BE A SALISBURY FOOD TAX, TOO, IF COMEGYS WINS?

A few years ago, when the City Council was controlled by Barrie and her "Dream Team" puppets – Comegys, Cathcart & Dunn – she asked them to support getting state legislation to allow the City to put a tax on food sales. They danced to her tune, until the local restaurant operators presented a petition with a couple thousand signatures by persons who objected. Then Bubba and his buddies abandoned ship.

Clearly Comegys is a tax and spend career bureaucrat at the State Highway Administration (probably Maryland’s most overfed agency). He has voted twice to raise the City’s property tax rate, which has increased by more than 25% since 2003. He was first elected in 2004.

And look at how he has approved spending our tax dollars: that "TIF" subsidy for the old mall, funding a marina that burns money, refurbishing the obsolete and unused "standpipe" and the nonsense proposed for the "North Prong", not to mention the pork for the fire department. We can expect much higher taxes if Bubba wins.

Here’s the best way to restore fiscal discipline in Salisbury – ELECT BOB CALDWELL. And cast your other vote for Jim Ireton to eliminate Bubba from being in the general election.