Today Pulse Of The Taxpayer was "listener driven" and covered several topics including the Supreme Court decision about the right to bear arms (2nd Amendment), the purchase of land from U.S. Sugar (Everglades), and the last minute write-in candidate in a local election for County Commissioner.

Our guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer today was Ray Strickland who came on the program to express his thoughts on the "Universal Primary" as it applies in Marion County, and to the Supreme Court and their current dilemma of ruling on the 2nd Amendment and whether the city of Washington DC is violating that amendment by banning guns.

Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener-driven today and a variety of topics were introduced including the deal between the State Of Florida and the Sugar industry to purchase most of the Everglades for restoration purposes, the Marion County Sheriff's inmate farm program, and other issues.

On today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer our guests were Pat Santospirito and Annie Marie Delgado.  Pat Santospirito is campaigning for the position of Marion County Republican State Committeewoman which will be voted on August 26th.  She is opposing incumbent Marguerite Cavanaugh.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was fueled, in part, by a discussion about a new website from Ross Perot.  If you're interested in looking at it the URL is http://www.perotcharts.com .  Not everyone seemed to be in support of the opinions of Mr. Perot but we thought it was a well done site and wanted to share it with our listeners.

This morning's Pulse Of The Taxpayer featured two guests who are attending the Ballot Initiative Conference in Orlando both today and tomorrow and representing Strong American Schools (http://www.edin08.com).  Our guests were Jocelyn Webster and Rachel Byrd and both ladies spoke about the conference for the first half of the program. The second half hour of today's show was listener driven and the topics varied.

Today's guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer was Marguerite Cavanaugh, Marion County Republican State Committeewoman.  Marguerite is campaigning as an incumbent to maintain her position and gave an overview of the role of the Committeewoman.  Listeners also contributed to the discussion with a variety of topics from drilling for oil to application fees for candidacies.

 

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer featured guests Pat Sasso, from Republican Women Federated and Annie Marie Delgado, president of the Greater Ocala Republican Club.  Both ladies were on to discuss a candidate's debate being held this Thursday.

Today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer was listener-driven and the callers made some excellent points regarding school vouchers.

Tim Schmidt substituted as host on today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer and he, along with his co-host Terry, conducted a listener-driven show.

Tim Schmidt substituted as host on today's Pulse Of The Taxpayer and led a lively discussion between the listeners and himself.

Today, on Pulse Of The Taxpayer, radio personality Tim Schmidt sat in during the program and offered commentary on some topical issues generated by both news stories and by the listeners.  Tim will be the guest host on Pulse Of The Taxpayer on June 12 and 13.

Ray Strickland was our guest today on Pulse Of The Taxpayer.  Ray talked about the economy of Marion County and Ocala in general and specifically about the role the Economic Development Council plays in bringing jobs and business to the area.

Mike Sizemore was our guest on Pulse Of The Taxpayer today talking about a study that encompasses all the water issues concerning Florida.  Quite a few categories were covered by Mike including the health of the aquifer, surface water, pumping water out of the area, desalination, the affects of septic tanks, the affects of fertilizers, the metering of private wells, etc.

Today's guests on Pulse Of The Taxpayer were Dennis Morgan and Roy Carmichael from the Taxpayer's Action Group (TAG) of Marion County and gave us some insight into the past TAG meeting.  Listener participation also contributed to today's program.

Today, on Pulse Of The Taxpayer, our guest was Alex Gillespie, Investment Advisor from Merrimac Corporate Securities located in Ocala, Florida.  Alex gave insight into his observation that the rising cost of gasoline is being fueled by speculators more than it is by President Bush or even the oil companies.

Today, on Pulse Of The Taxpayer, our guest was Dave Noble, President of The Noble Foundation.  Mr. Noble specialized in oil and gas production and pipeline law and was on the program to discuss the Lieberman-Warner Act before the US Senate this week.