tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440295186570040879.post1882650596529849940..comments2023-10-28T07:54:40.404-05:00Comments on Thats Just Bob: Maffucci Tries To Claim Collins Is Not A LiarRoadManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12167216234472667417noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440295186570040879.post-23017644778478695432008-06-01T19:13:00.000-05:002008-06-01T19:13:00.000-05:00Any way you try to spin it Collins, just can't tel...Any way you try to spin it Collins, just can't tell the truth.<BR/>How can he claim one day he is against reducing taxes. The next day he talks about eliminating the grocery tax. Collins talks out of both sides of his mouth.<BR/><BR/>In her defense of Wallace Collins's failure to support eliminating the grocery sales tax in HB 3358, Bette Maffucci conveniently fails to tell readers what the procedural vote was that Collins skipped. The vote was on a motion to allow an amendment to HB 3358. The amendment under consideration: elimination of the grocery sales tax. Maffucci and Collins can try playing evasive semantic games by saying he didn't miss the vote on "the bill," but what really matters is Collins intentionally skipped a vote to allow an amendment to HB 3358 that would have killed the grocery sales tax. A majority of the House, which included Collins's fellow Democrats, supported allowing the amendment. Collins did not. But instead of voting "Nay," he took the cowardly politician's way out and left the chamber. As Fairbanks correctly pointed out, this is contrary to his April 13th claim that he "didn't walk any votes." Collins knew what he was doing, even if Maffucci didn't.<BR/>BobAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com