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Texas Weekly Update - The race is on: 423 bills pre-filed for the 81st Legislative Session
November 12, 2008
Texas AFP's weekly update includes information which promotes economic prosperity, as well as roadblocks to personal wealth creation.
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AFP Invited to Testify before Appropriations' Spending Subcommittee
November 12, 2008
AFP-Texas director Peggy Venable told the Committee that Texas needs a better defined state spending limit. Spending limits at the local level will provide the ultimate in local control. Taxpayer-funded lobbying is a betrayal of taxpayers’ trust and denies taxpayers the protections they deserve. If elected officials need more revenue, they simply need to make their case to the taxpayers. Voters deserve an opportunity to determine just how much government we want and are willing to pay.
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St. Anthony Academy: A Charter School Success Story
November 10, 2008
Tom Pauken, Chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission, has found Charter School success in a south Dallas school.
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Texas Weekly Update - Supporting Good Policy is Good Politics
November 8, 2008
Texas is still Red and our economy is in the black. That's good news in Texas...
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Texans Don't Fall for Green Schemes
November 8, 2008
While many states are experiencing huge budget deficits and asking for a federal government bailout, Texas enjoys a $11 billion budget surplus. And while many states are clamoring to be green, and though Texas has programs in place to promote energy efficiency and renewable energy projects, Texas has refused to jump on the global warming regulatory bandwagon. Let's face it: whatever Texas is doing, we are doing it right.
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Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert Pulls Big-Government Shenanigans with Local Citizens and Business Owners
November 6, 2008
DALLAS – Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert has made no secret of wanting to expand the city’s smoking ordinance to prohibit smoking in bars, pool halls and tobacco shops.
But at Wednesday’s city council briefing, he let his desires get in the way of fair and equal treatment of the people he serves: the citizens of Dallas. More than 20 community members – including bar and tobacco shop owners – took time out of their workday to attend the city council meeting to speak out against any expansion of the ordinance.
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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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AFP President responds to election results
November 5, 2008
WASHINGTON – Americans for Prosperity (AFP) President Tim Phillips tonight released the following statement in response to the election results: “We congratulate both Senator Obama and Senator McCain on what they have achieved during this long campaign, and we look forward to working constructively with both of them on behalf of America’s taxpayers in the months and years ahead...
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AFP Tells Dallas City Council to Vote Against New Smoking Restrictions that Will Hurt the Local Economy
November 5, 2008
DALLAS – Dallas City Council members plan to vote on new restrictive amendments to the city’s smoking ordinance on Nov. 19. It’s the second time in five years the council has considered anti-smoking measures that infringe on the rights of both business owners and consumers.
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Yikes, It’s Scary, and Good News in Texas
November 1, 2008
Texas AFP's weekly update includes information which promotes economic prosperity, as well as roadblocks to personal wealth creation.
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