[1] She was eulogized by Governor of Massachusetts Charlie Baker[2] for her contribution to reducing property, income and excise taxes for state citizens[3] (moving Massachusetts from the sixth-heaviest taxed state to the 36th).
[4][5] She was an executive director of Citizens for Limited Taxation for 35 years.
[6] In November 1980,[7] she led the property tax relief campaign, instituting the ballot initiative empowering voters with a veto on property tax hikes.
[9] She was a weekly contributor to both The Salem News[10] and The Lawrence Eagle-Tribune Publishing Company.
[11] Anderson was known as “The Mother of Proposition 2½.”[12][13][14] She co-hosted a popular WRKO radio program with newspaper columnist Howie Carr and radio personality Jerry Williams.