Free Republic

A group of Peninsula Republicans are uniting to fight this fall's transportation tax referendum. Roughly 50 people, mostly GOP activists, organized a still-unnamed group Friday, according to three people who attended the group's initial meeting. The group members share a belief that it's wrong to raise the sales tax in order to build more roads, said Brenda Pogge, a prominent Hampton Republican who played a key role in coordinating the group. "This is about raising taxes," Pogge said. "It's not as much about building roads. Hampton Roads would have the highest sales tax in Virginia." Pogge's husband, Roger, a former...