As Sacramento Lawmakers battle over the budget, Americans for Prosperity California chapter is coming to Contra Costa, as part of a statewide media tour and petition drive calling on legislators to stop pork barrel spending and stop treating the taxpayers like an A.T.M. every time they can’t get their spending under control.

Speakers include: Abram Wilson, Mayor San Ramon; Bill Pollacek, Contra Costa Treasurer-Tax Collector; Arne Simonsen, Antioch City Council, Small Business Owner, Past - Chair of League of Cities Revenue and Taxation Committee; Kris Hunt, Executive Director Contra Costa Taxpayers Association; Robert Rao, Candidate Assembly District 15; David Spady, Executive Director of Americans for Prosperity, California.

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“Raise your property taxes; Raise your income taxes; Raise the yearly registration on our cars; Close the State Historical parks…and early release of 22,000 prisoners”

Instead, Rao promises to target:

“Expensive and underperforming programs that have not met their goals; Hundreds of duplicate and unnecessary programs; Pork, fraud and waste out of government…and we can start by getting rid of the ‘elevator operators’ in the State Capitol. Our elected leaders can push their own buttons”

But with which hand will Rao press the electorate’s buttons? In pictures posted on his campaign web site we are given the impression Rao is ambidextrious; using both his left and right hands to sign documents.