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Townhall Meeting
May 21, 2008
Join State Treasurer John Kennedy and local legislators to discuss Senate Bill 106 and other earmark legislation currently being considered in the state legislature.
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Hot Air Tour Schedule
May 2, 2008
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.
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Nationwide Hot Air Balloon Tour to Stop in Lafayette, May 3
April 29, 2008
LAFAYETTE – The free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) will bring its nationwide hot air balloon tour to Lafayette on Saturday, May 3, for a grassroots event at the University of Louisiana – Lafayette. Even as gasoline prices reach an all-time high, the Hot Air Tour will highlight an economy-destroying, stealth energy tax hike contained in legislation being pushed by global warming alarmists. The event is free and open to media and the public.
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Grassroots School
December 23, 2007
Activist Grassroots school
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LA AFP summary
December 5, 2007
See what AFP has been up to in Louisiana!
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National Grassroots Group Launches Louisiana State Chapter
July 12, 2007
BATON ROUGE– The national free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) today launched its Louisiana Chapter and said the chapter’s first goal would be to mobilize citizens against out-of-control spending and in support of tax relief and expanded government transparency. The chapter
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Legislative Session Ends, Sticks the Bill for Bloated Government to Taxpayers
July 9, 2007
BATON ROUGE – Despite record revenue flowing into state coffers, the 2007 legislative session ended by sticking the bill for bloated government to taxpayers instead of providing significant tax relief.
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Nationwide “Ending Earmarks Express” Visits Louisiana, Questions Vague $250,000 Federal Earmark to the City of Shreveport
September 22, 2006
SHREVEPORT – As the momentum for earmark reform continues to build, the Americans for Prosperity Foundation’s (AFPF’s) nationwide Ending Earmarks Express, a road tour of lawmakers’ questionable pet projects, today visited Shreveport, La., to question a $250,000 federal earmark to the City of Shreveport, and to highlight the national need for an end to pork-barrel politics.
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Americans for Prosperity Says Not Offsetting Hurricane Relief Funds Will “Create Another National Disaster”
September 21, 2005
WASHINGTON – Americans for Prosperity Executive Vice President Michelle Korsmo released the following statement in support of finding spending offsets to help pay the federal cost of hurricane relief:
“Hurricane Katrina was a national disaster of the highest magnitude and the victims of this catastrophe need our help. But Washington will only create another national disaster and produce even more victims down the road if it passes the massive cost of hurricane relief to the next generation.
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