The Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association

Dedicated to protecting the rights and interests of the taxpayers of Silicon Valley against the over–reaching and over–spending of government

To contact us:

Silicon Valley Taxpayers' Association
4718 Meridian Ave. Suite 266
San Jose, CA 95118
(408) 279-5000

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In the meantime see our temporary home at
svtaxpayers.com.

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The Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association

presents

OPERATION PERMANENT OFFENSE
featuring
LEW and JIM UHLER, National Tax-Limitation Committee

Please join SVTA for its annual members' dinner, and election of our 2007board of directors.

WHEN:
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
6:00 Registration & no-host dinner
7:00 Meeting

WHERE:
Hobee's Restaurant, private room
Pruneyard Shopping Center
1875 S. Bascom Ave., Unit 190
Campbell, CA 95008
(408) 369-0575

TICKETS:
Everyone welcome!
$10 individual ($15 nonmembers)
$15 couple ($25 nonmembers)

RSVP:

Phone (408) 279-5000

TOPIC:

" The best defense is a good offense."

The National Tax-Limitation Committee has embarked on Operation Permanent Offense, designed around the initiative process--the "legislature of the people"--to provide an on-going mechanism for early detection, warning, and opposition to bad initiatives--even before they are filed for "title and summary" and begin their signature-gathering period. As part of this drive to deal more effectively with the myriad big-spending initiatives which regale California taxpayers year after year, the Uhlers will tell us the latest about their work on reincarnating the Paycheck Protection Act, protecting union members who'd like to choose whether their union dues will go toward political causes, and on barring Sacramento lobbyists from using taxpayer funds for their special interests.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

JIM UHLER is Executive Director of the National Tax Limitation Committee. Combining his extensive background in business and management with his lifelong exposure--as son of NTLC founder Lew Uhler--to the principles of fiscal conservatism and smaller government, he brings a unique energy to theorganization's many ambitious initiatives.

LEW UHLER is President of the National Tax Limitation Committee, which he founded in 1975, and author of Setting Limits: Constitutional Control of Government, with foreword by Milton Friedman. From 1968, when Governor Reagan selected Uhler to serve on the California Law Revision Commission, to 1972, when Reagan asked Uhler to form and head the Governor's Tax Reduction Task Force; from co-authoring Prop. 140, California's pioneering state term limit initiative in 1990, to participating in a 1996 symposium at the Vatican exploring private alternatives to welfare states worldwide, Lew Uhler has been at the forefront of national movements, working especially for term limits and for a Tax Limitation/ Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

A native Californian, Uhler has also been active in land development in northern California. He is a graduate of Yale University and the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a member of the California Bar.

Please join us for a wonderful evening of dinner, meeting your fellow taxpayers, and a very informative talk!

Silicon Valley Taxpayers’ Association www.SVTaxpayers.org 408/279-5000

MEMBERS, PLEASE READ ON:

Annual Election of Directors, 2007

This event on June 26 will include the election of the board of directors for fiscal year 2007. SVTA's bylaws call for 9 directors on a rotating schedule of 3-year terms. As we near the end of our fiscal 2006, we have six seats occupied:

Terms end now:
Elizabeth C. Brierly (current President)
Isaac Kight (current Treasurer)

Term ends fiscal 2007:
Doug McNea (current Vice President & past President)
Terms end fiscal 2008:

Bill Becker (immediate past Treasurer)
Jack Faraone (current Secretary)
Shelley Williams (past President)

Thus, with 2 directors' terms ending now, and 3 other seats being open, there will soon be up to 5 seats to fill. Our nominating committee presents us the following 3 nominees (2 other nominees have graciously declined) for your consideration on June 26:

Jim Barry:
SVTA member since 2006; Legislative Officer of Golden State 2nd Amendment Council (member since 2000); former member of Coalition for a One-Stop Terminal (COST) (opposing extension of BART down the peninsula); former legislative representative for Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (ret. 2004).

Isaac Kight:
Finance industry consultant; SVTA director since April, 2006; current SVTA Treasurer; president, Asperger’s Society.

Doug McNea:
SVTA director and VP (also past President); member of Citizens for Sensible Transportation (who defeated Measure A’s half-cent sales tax to extend BART to San Jose, June 2006); 2006 candidate for Assembly District 24.

Even though the nominating committee's work is done, SVTA members are still welcome to run for board positions, since they certainly may be nominated from the floor at this annual meeting. Also note that officer assignments will be made by the new board, at their first meeting after the annual board election.

Please remember to invite friends, family, colleagues, and neighbors--anyone you know who appreciates SVTA's mission of "protecting the rights and interests of the taxpayers of Silicon Valley against the over–reaching and over–spending of government."
Thank you so much for all your support!