Call / Email Delegate Kirk Cox and Riley Ingram to Support HB2202 and Budget Transparency

Sign up for  CoLA Alerts direct :  http://www.vtppf.org/cola-alerts/ Fast Calls Needed - Committee meets tomorrow! Virginia has 'Earmarks' Too At Last ..."The BUDGET SUNLIGHT Bill" Support HB2202   HB2202 will allow all 140 legislators, and Virginia taxpayers, to know what earmarks have been placed in the conference committee budget so that all voting on it can make an informed decision when they vote. Disclosing earmarks will make it easier for lawmakers to identify pork and wasteful spending and to cut it out. (If not in that particular budget, certainly in the next session) The bill makes public all line items in the budget that were not part of either the House or Senate proposed budgets, appropriations to non-state agencies, and items that were defeated during session. (A backdoor way of getting a defeated measure into law anyway) The bill also requires that all the items be listed line by line, the name of the legislator who put them in there and the amount of the expenditure.   THE HOUSE COMMITTEE MEETS FRIDAY AFTERNOON Let them know you support budget transparency! Please, call committee members - ask for a YES vote Support  HB 2202   Committee members: Click for contact information:  Howell (Chairman), Landes, Cox, Kilgore, Ware, Jones, Orrock, Knight, Ingram, Massie, Habeeb, Joannou, Plum, Toscano, Spruill   Please take a minute to thank the Patron Delegate O'Bannon for submitting this GREAT BILL  804-698-1073  deljobannon@house.virginia.gov The bill: http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+com+H20   Thanks, The CoLA Team, VA Tea Party Patriots Federation, Cooperative Legislative Action (CoLA)   Visit Chester, VA at: http://chesterpatriots.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network   To control which emails you receive on Chester, VA, click here