Since 1998 Rich Aucoin has been one of Massachusetts' busiest small government activists, supporting dozens of local, legislative, congressional, and presidential campaigns aimed at reducing the spending and taxation of Big Government.
In 2002 Rich Aucoin ran for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts with gubernatorial candidate Carla Howell. He ran twice for Waltham City Council, in 2001 and 2003.
In 2002 Aucoin also championed the grassroots outreach for the first Ballot Question 1 to End the Income Tax, leading a team of volunteers who distributed Yes-on-1 fliers from Pittsfield to Provincetown. The initiative ultimately won more than 45% of the vote, stunning the state's political and media establishment.
In 2003 Rich Aucoin formed Waltham Citizens for Taxpayer Justice and fought to give back $1,000 a year to the average Waltham homeowner and to cut the city budget by 26%, back to its 1998 level.
Rich has delivered dozens of speeches to high school and college students across Massachusetts, including the Kennedy School of Government and the Cambridge School of Weston.
The Advocates for Self Government twice granted Rich Aucoin the Lights of Liberty award for his small-government activism.
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