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Republican leaders decry proposed income tax, urge verification of public testimony and referendum option
Summary
At a Republican media availability, House and Senate GOP leaders criticized the majority's budget and income-tax proposal, raised concerns about duplicate or fraudulent online sign-ins on legislative testimony and proposed removing an emergency clause so voters could decide by referendum.
At a Capitol media availability, House and Senate Republican leaders sharply criticized the majority's proposed operating budget and the income-tax bill, and called for changes to how the Legislature accepts and verifies public testimony.
Representative Chris Corey, the House Republican deputy leader, said Republicans had begun their own checks after reports that many people who signed in "con" to the income-tax bill claimed their names were submitted without consent. "Any abuse of the system should be roundly condemned," Corey said, adding that internal sampling shows some duplicate entries but that "just over a 100,000 people signed in con with unique email addresses that are clearly not bots." He urged legislative administrators to…
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