My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was a political science student.
And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.
I came into politics because of my opposition to what a Tory Government was doing to the community I grew up in.
I got into politics when I was eight years old.
I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.
It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.
I grew up in a household where we talked politics a lot and argued politics a lot.
Sometimes, people forget my record of fiscal conservatism on major issues in the state legislature. The greatest example is my voting against the pension borrowing scheme in 1997.
Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.
I worked in the media from the late 30's through the early 70's. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state as the years passed.
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