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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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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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Six-Story Hot Air Balloon Stops in Spartanburg
June 25, 2008
The free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) today brought its nationwide hot air balloon to Spartanburg to draw attention to climate change policies that would hike energy costs. Even as record gas prices and high food costs put a squeeze on household budgets, lawmakers are pushing global warming policies that are out of touch with average Americans, the group says.
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Spartanburg Herald-Journal Covers AFP Hot Air Tour Event
June 25, 2008
Check the Spartanburg Herald-Journal's coverage of our Spartanburg event.
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Nationwide Hot Air Balloon Tour to Stop in Spartanburg, June 17
June 13, 2008
SPARTANBURG – The taxpayer watchdog group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) will bring its nationwide hot air balloon tour to Spartanburg on Tuesday, June 17, for an event in Barnet Park. Even as record gas prices and high food costs put a squeeze on household budgets, lawmakers are pushing global warming policies that are out of touch with average Americans. The event is free and open to media and the public. Those planning to attend are encouraged to pre-register online at www.CostOfHotAir.com.
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Nationwide Hot Air Balloon Tour to Expose Economic Costs of Global Warming Alarmism in Six More States
June 12, 2008
WASHINGTON – The free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) today announced it will begin the second leg of its nationwide hot air balloon tour on June 17, highlighting the economic consequences of so-called global warming “solutions” with seven events in six states.
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Nationwide Hot Air Balloon Tour to Stop in S.C., Ga., Fla., Ala., Tenn., and Ohio
June 3, 2008
Americans for Prosperity's nationwide hot air balloon tour will visit six more states from June 17th through June 21st, making stops in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, and Ohio.
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Americans for Prosperity Launches Nationwide Hot Air Balloon Tour to Expose Economic Costs of Climate Change Legislation
April 21, 2008
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.
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Righting the Republican Ship
November 13, 2006
The State, November 11, 2006
By: Mike Campbell
Tuesday’s political tsunami hit the Republican Party all across America. After 12 years in leadership, the balance of power shifted abruptly, despite the fact that, just two years ago, large majorities were bestowed on the GOP in both houses of Congress and George W. Bush was given four more years as our commander-in-chief.
Conservatives now ask, “What happened?” What happened to the party of Ronald Reagan? What happened to less spending and limited government? What happened to the majority we fought so hard to get?
Many Republicans in Washington simply fell into the same traps of power and politics that plagued Democrats before them. The words of Lord Acton best describe this situation: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
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