Taxpayer “revolt” gaining steam in Buffalo
By CAROLYN THOMPSON
Associated Press Writer
March 10, 2005, 2:49 PM EST
AMHERST, N.Y. — If there had been tea handy, they might have tossed it into Buffalo Harbor, such was the mood at the kickoff of what’s being called a “populist revolution.”
“Welcome to the second shot heard ’round the world,” organizer James Ostrowski told more than 250 people who filled a banquet hall earlier this week to be part of a citizen-led movement to reverse the region’s fortunes and keep government in check.
“Free Buffalo” borrows its philosophy from Thomas Jefferson and invoked the names of Paul Revere and Samuel Adams at its first public gathering. It even took on taxation as an early cause.
“We’re here because America’s greatest statesman once said, ‘A little revolution now and then is a good thing,”‘ said Ostrowski, quoting Jefferson.
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