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Colorado Elections ... Bad and Good news
November 6, 2008
AFP Colorado State Director, Jim Pfaff, discusses the election results in Colorado and the state legislative issue to come in 2009
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Americans for Prosperity Responds to Election Results
November 6, 2008
"There will be many battles to wage for free-market principles in the upcoming months, but we will find common ground with Obama on tax cuts, earmark reform, and greater transparency and accountability in government spending.
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“Let the American Energy Ban Expire!” Says Americans for Prosperity at Capitol Hill Rally
September 18, 2008
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.
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Sarah Palin stood against the Bridge to Nowhere. Why didn’t Obama and Biden?
September 11, 2008
AFP policy director Phil Kerpen recounts the history of the Bridge to Nowhere.
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Americans for Prosperity Ranks House Lawmakers on “Freedom from Foreign Oil” Scorecard
July 24, 2008
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.
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Americans for Prosperity Launches Colorado Chapter
June 25, 2008
The national free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) today launched its Colorado state chapter, saying that its first goal would be to educate and mobilize grassroots taxpayers in support the removal of artificial, government-imposed barriers to energy development, which will help lower prices for cash-strapped citizens.
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Americans for Prosperity: On First Day in Majority, House Democrats Should Enact Pork-Barrel Earmark Reform Package That Democratic Leaders Proposed in September
November 7, 2006
“As we drove more that 10,000 miles across 37 states on our Ending Earmarks Express road tour this year, one outraged taxpayer after another told us that many Republicans in Washington had forgotten that they were sent to Congress to fight for real, permanent tax relief and restrained federal spending – not for massive new government programs and pork-barrel goodies for special-interest contributors...
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Nationwide “Ending Earmarks Express” Visits Vail, Colo., Questions $500,000 Federal Earmark for I-70 Wildlife Overpass
July 11, 2006
The Americans for Prosperity Foundation’s nationwide Ending Earmarks Express, a bus tour of lawmakers’ wasteful pet projects, today visited Vail to question a $500,000 federal earmark for a vegetated overpass designed for animal-only use, and to highlight the national need for an end to pork-barrel politics.
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Americans for Prosperity Foundation’s Nationwide “Ending Earmarks Express” to Begin Western Swing on July 10
June 28, 2006
Tour Will Visit Wyoming, Colorado, N.M., Arizona, Nevada, California
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Americans for Prosperity Foundation’s Nationwide “Ending Earmarks Express” to Kick Off Third Leg on June 12
June 9, 2006
WASHINGTON – The Americans for Prosperity Foundation’s nationwide Ending Earmarks Express, a bus tour of lawmakers’ wasteful pet projects, will kick off its third leg on Monday, June 12, and visit six states and seven earmarks next week. The grassroots bus tour, which began its inaugural swing on April 7th, has so far traveled over 3,100 miles to 15 states and 17 earmarks worth billions in hard-earned tax dollars.
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