Voters in the following cities and districts have the opportunity to Just Say No to higher taxes today:

San Bruno (Hotel Tax increase)
Brisbane (Hotel Tax increase)
Burlingame (Hotel Tax increase, also a measure to make clerk an appointed position)
Millbrae (Hotel Tax increase, also a measure to make treasurer an appointed position)
San Mateo (Sales Tax increase)
South San Francisco (Hotel Tax increase and modification)
Portola Valley (interrelated utility tax measures, see below)
Atherton (parcel tax, and expenditure authorization)
San Carlos (Sales Tax increase, also a measure to make clerk an appointed position)
Redwood City (business license tax, also creation of a library board)

For Portola Valley, the anti-tax votes are Yes on P, No on Q, No on R. But be sure to read your voter information guide, especially if you like brain teasers.

In Sequoia High School District, one local libertarian gave me a cautious recommendation for Noria Zasslow, based on a candidate statement where she called for freeing students in the more violent schools to go to other districts, and ending the campaign against the Everest charter school.

Redwood City School Board voters have the opportunity to vote for one of our own in Jack Hickey, currently a board member for the Sequoia Healthcare District. Jack's been a strong advocate for school choice for many years.

For all our (sometimes) rhetoric, this isn't yet a totalitarian dictatorship. Sure, we can quibble with whether the impartial analysis is really impartial, or if the public review periods were long enough, but the fact is, if we get enough libertarians to the polls, we can hold the state in check.

Kevin Peterson