Free-market booster Michael Quinn Sullivan, the voice behind the voice of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, is leaving his VP post to lead a new organization with a similar low-to-no taxes mindset. The startup, Texans for Fiscal Responsibility, seeks to divert the state’s $15 billion surplus into the hands of taxpayers, and has created a website and blog (www.empowertexans.com) to further its mission. If you’re hankering for more details about the new group, then get thee to the reception TPPF is hosting for Sullivan. The festivities are set for 5pm Friday at the Foundation’s headquarters, 900 Congress Ave. A former newspaper reporter, Sullivan jumped from the liberal media into the free-market fire in the mid-Nineties to serve as an aide to U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, the anti-tax Republican from Surfside, before moving to the nonprofit, non-partisan (wink, wink) sector. Apparently, it will take three people to fill Sullivan’s shoes: staffers Bill Peacock, Mary Katherine Stout, and Shari Hanrahan, all got promotions out of the deal.
This article appears in December 1 • 2006.
