To say that anti-tax activist Doug Guetzloe is controversial in his home base of Orlando would be a severe understatement, as the fiscal conservative has had been mired in several lawsuits on different fronts over the years. Recently the Florida Republican Party filed lawsuits against several Tea Party candidates running for state house and Congressional seats. Guetzloe and his attorney Frederic O'Neal established the movement as an official party in Florida, but many Republicans say that Guetzloe's intentions are impure that he has an unholy alliance with Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson to run bogus candidates against the combative Democrat his bid for re-election in November.
There are many other legal issues that haunt Guetzloe, but for now he's trying to what he can to bring down Mark Sharpe in Tuesday's GOP primary for Hillsborough County Commission District Seven seat against the Sam Rashid appointed opponent, Josh Burgin.
Over the weekend, Guetzloe announced that his group, Ax the Tax, would run two new television ads costing $10,000 and one radio spot worth $7,500 in the final days leading to Tuesday's election targeting Sharpe.
In a press release, Guetzloe said, "Tuesday is important because voters can send a very clear and firm message to tax-and-spend liberals like Mark Shape that their efforts to grow government and increase taxes are not welcome. Hillsborough county voters need to know the facts concerning their incumbent county commission Mark Sharpe."
