AFP Leads Huge Coalition Opposing Extension of Tax Breaks for Wind Energy

September 06, 2012 JTaxes, Energy & Environment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 6, 2012  CONTACT: James Valvo at JValvo@afphq.org or (703)224-3200 Asks Congress to let the wasteful wind production incentives expire Arlington, Va.—Today Americans for Prosperity (AFP), the nation’s premier free market grassroots organization, led a large coalition sending a letter to Capitol Hill opposing the extension of the federal wind production tax [...]

Second Investigative Video Indicates “Find A Way” Culture in Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services

August 18, 2011 JTaxes

For Immediate Release
August 18, 2011
Contact: Carol Weston, (207) 592-8835 or cweston@afphq.org

Second Investigative Video Indicates "Find a Way" Culture in Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services

PORTLAND- On August 11th, Americans for Prosperity-Maine and the Maine Heritage Policy Center revealed the results of an investigation into the potential for fraud within Maine’s Medicaid system. A week later, James O’Keefe has released a second video filmed in Maine that shows a trained Department of Health and Human Services Intake Worker in the Portland office sincerely helping a young man clear "hurdles" that could prevent him from receiving benefits.

Small Business, Farm Leaders Join Americans for Prosperity-Maine to Support Governor’s Death Tax Cuts

March 30, 2011 JTaxes

AUGUSTA – Americans for Prosperity-Maine (AFP) was joined by business and farm leaders at a press conference in Augusta on Friday to urge members of the Maine Legislature to support Governor Paul LePage’s budget proposal to increase the exemption in Maine’s Death Tax.