Where
Bernardo Heights Country Club16066 Bernardo Heights Parkway
San Diego, CA 92128
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August 10 2021 COGG Invitation
Mr. Richard Rider will be the speaker at COGG on Tuesday, 10 August 2021. Mr. Rider is known to be the most knowledgeable and the fiercest of fighters against tax increases, much to the annoyance and disappointment of many in government. He champions prop 13 which is again under attack. You may read his editorials in the local press and see him on local TV sounding the alarm re new and innovative tax schemes and unusual and suspect ways to waste the taxpayer's money.
The meeting opens at 11:30 at Bernardo Heights Country Club, 16066 Bernardo Heights Blvd, Rancho Bernardo, with lunch from 12:00 noon until 12:30. Cost is $35 for lunch and in-person with Mr. Rider. Registration prior to 6 August will ensure your meal choice and seating. Registration can be done at our website at COGGrb.org, by phone to Blair Lawson at 858-217-6996 or emailblair@coggrb.com
. If you cannot attend in person, Zoom attendance is also available.
Please join us on August 10 for what will be an entertaining and very informative luncheon meeting.
Please join us on August 10 for what will be an entertaining and very informative luncheon meeting.
EDUCATION: B.A. Economics, University of North Carolina, 1968
MILITARY SERVICE: Commander, Supply Corps, U. S. Naval Reserve, retired after 26 years (four years active, the rest in the reserve). Vietnam veteran, though never stationed in-country.
OCCUPATION: Retired stockbroker and financial planner. Lifetime member of the International Association of Financial Planners. Retired telecommunications business owner.
AFFILIATION:
- Chairman, San Diego Tax Fighters
- National Taxpayers Union
- Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association
- Republican Party
POLITICAL ACTIVITIES:
- Successfully sued the county of San Diego (Rider vs. County of San Diego) to force a rollback of an illegal 1/2-cent jails sales tax, a precedent that saved California taxpayers well over fourteen billion dollars, including $3.5 billion for San Diego County taxpayers.
- Actively supported a variety of tax-cutting ballot initiatives including Proposition 13. Has written ballot arguments against dozens of county and state tax increase initiatives.
- County co-chair of both California term limit initiatives (Prop 140 and Prop 164).
- Libertarian Party candidate for Congress in 1986 and 1988.
- Candidate for the nonpartisan 3rd District County Supervisor in 1992 (third place among six candidates with about 20% of the vote).
- 1993 - Appointed to (and then elected chair of) the San Diego County Social Services Advisory Board.1994 - Libertarian Party candidate for Governor of California.
- 1996 - Appointed as a Commissioner on the California Constitution Revision Commission by then state Assembly Speaker Kurt Pringle.
- Has been involved in legal actions against City of San Diego to force a citizen vote on issuing bonds for Qualcomm stadium expansion, convention center and baseball ballpark.
- 2005 - Unsuccessful candidate for Mayor of San Diego, though his reform ideas have since taken hold.
- 2007 - Columnist for NORTH COUNTY TIMES and SAN DIEGO DAILY TRANSCRIPT.
- 2009 - Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association's "California Tax Fighter of the Year." Largely as a result, the San Diego City Council declared 4 October, 2009 "Richard Rider Day."
- 2011 - Guest on the national Fox Business news network.
- 2011 - Weekly commentator on San Diego TV-6 morning news - XETV-6.
FAMILY: Married. Wife, Diane, is a retired public high school teacher. Two sons.