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AFP Patients First Health Care Rally
Patients First, a project of AFP, is joined by Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory at a rally against Government Run Health Care in North Carolina.
AFP Pres. Tim Phillips Discusses Card Check on Glenn Beck
AFP President Tim Phillips joins Glenn Beck to discuss the Card Check provision being pulled from the Employee Free Choice Act. However, now Congress is replacing it with another terrible provision which calls for a Fast Track Election.
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Kudos to Al M., Tony W., Tom C., and the other Sierra Vista stalwarts who got out the message and tanked the SV override. Given the performance of other overrides statewide, it's clear that your grassroots efforts made the difference!
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Houston Independent School District doled out 1,200 credit cards; some staffers issued cards have bad credit and bankruptcies
Some HISD staffers who have been handed credit cards owe money to schools.
This story comes to us from the investigative reporters at Texas Watchdog:
http://www.texaswatchdog.org/2009/10/houston-independent-school-district...
READ MOREThis is a fairly typical example of the emails I have been receiving for the past two weeks:
From: LOIS POSTIL
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 5:25 PM
To: tjenney@afphq.org
Subject: Arizona Federation of Taxpayers
Ronald Reagan had it correct, "Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them."
READ MOREFrom time to time we come across a gross exaggeration that just simply has to be called out and this is a gross exaggeration to say the least.
Alan Rupe, one of the attorneys representing the Salina and Dodge City schools in Montoy v. State of Kansas made this statement which appeared in several newspapers, including the Dodge City Globe and the El Dorado Times on April 30, 2009:
“They (the Legislature) seem to have just eliminated their ability to raise taxes,” he said. “Meanwhile, the cuts to the schools are huge, and, in fact, return the education funding to pre-Montoy levels.”
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