Remember when Mark Sharpe announced his candidacy to challenge Kathy Castor for Congress in the summer of 2011?
The Hillsborough County Commissioner's only campaign pledge he said he if was elected would be one "that says I'm not going to be signing pledges."
Though Sharpe later reversed course and opted not to take his fourth run for Congress, his statement was considered bold in that he willing to take on the strict GOP dogma over the past 20 years that says Republicans don't vote to raise taxes.
But with the "fiscal cliff" now just five weeks away, are D.C-based Republicans willing to break that no-new taxes pledge that most put in writing to conservative activist Grover Norquist years ago?
"No one is caving," Norquist told the Wall Street Journal on Saturday about his sacred pledge.
