On Tuesday, a coalition of groups, including Tea Party establishments like the Tampa 9.12 Project and the Tampa Tea Party are announcing a new group that will be fighting the penny sales tax referendum on transit that Hillsborough County citizens will vote on in November.
The group is calling itself NoTaxForTracks.com (though that website does not appear to be live at the moment).
A spokesperson for the group, Sharon Calvert, says they plan on getting their message out via social networking tools, and they will be fundraising, hopefully to pay fdistribute mailers.
They will be the opposition to the official group supporting the sales tax, which includes funding to begin construction for a light rail system, Moving Hillsborough Forward.
This article appears in Jul 8-14, 2010.