“Let the American Energy Ban Expire!” Says Americans for Prosperity at Capitol Hill Rally
September 18, 2008 | SP
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers on Capitol Hill can deliver a victory over the current Congressional ban on energy exploration by “doing nothing,” the grassroots free-market group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) said at its Capitol Hill news conference today. House and Senate lawmakers joined AFP to send that strong message at the two-week-mark in the countdown to American Energy Freedom Day – the October 1st expiration date of the current Congressional ban on offshore drilling and oil shale recovery.

Emission reduction efforts will accomplish nothing
August 27, 2008 | KS
Kansas policymakers are considering a laundry list of proposals to address a perceived threat of global warming. These policy proposals will significantly reduce individual freedom and economic prosperity in Kansas while accomplishing none of the goals they hope to reach. Read Geoffrey Lawrence's full column here.

Americans for Prosperity Ranks House Lawmakers on “Freedom from Foreign Oil” Scorecard
July 24, 2008 | NH
WASHINGTON – The grassroots free-market group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) today released its “Freedom from Foreign Oil” scorecard, which ranks U.S. Representatives based on their support for – or opposition to – policies that would lower gas and energy prices by increasing American supplies and making domestic production less expensive.

AFP-Kansas Urges Lawmakers to Avoid Using Environment as Cover for Higher Taxes
July 21, 2008 | KS
TOPEKA – The free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity-Kansas is asking all candidates for the Kansas Legislature to pledge to avoid expanding the growth of government under the guise of environmental political correctness.

AFP Calls for Cost-Benefit Analysis in State Highway Plan
June 25, 2008 | KS
TOPEKA – In light of the long-range transportation plan being released this week by the Kansas Department of Transportation, the free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity calls for KDOT to include cost-benefit analyses of highway projects before spending billions of taxpayer dollars.

Hot Air Tour Schedule
May 2, 2008 | MO
Climate alarmists have bombarded citizens with apocalyptic scenarios and pressured them into environmental political correctness. It’s time to tell the other side of the story.

Nationwide Hot Air Balloon Tour to Stop in Wichita, May 1
April 29, 2008 | KS
WICHITA – The free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) will bring its nationwide hot air balloon tour to Wichita on May 1 for a news conference and citizen event. Even as gasoline prices reach an all-time high, the Hot Air Tour has the goal of educating citizens on the economic costs of climate change policies, including the huge energy tax hike hidden in global warming legislation being debated by lawmakers. The event is free and open to media and the public. Citizens planning to attend are encouraged to register online at www.CostofHotAir.com.

Americans for Prosperity Launches Nationwide Hot Air Balloon Tour to Expose Economic Costs of Climate Change Legislation
April 21, 2008 | SP
WASHINGTON – One day before Earth Day, hundreds of citizens joined the grassroots free-market group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) for a rally in the nation’s capital to launch a cross-country hot air balloon tour aimed at exposing the unaffordable costs of proposed climate change policies. The nationwide Hot Air Tour will make its first stop on April 30 with AFP’s huge seventy-foot hot air balloon in Kansas City, Missouri, before stopping at locations in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana, on its first leg. In all, the Tour will visit two-dozen key locations across the U.S. Visit www.CostOfHotAir.org for more information.

Save the Date -- Hot Air Tour
April 14, 2008 | KS
Join us in Kansas City and Wichita for Americans for Prosperity's nationwide hot air balloon tour, which will expose the unaffordable costs of global warming alarmism for average Americans.

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