Issues
December 17, 2012 JHealth Care & Entitlements
During the past year Americans for Prosperity Pennsylvania (“AFP-PA”) made it a top priority to educate the citizens of our state why the Affordable Healthcare Act (“Obamacare”) would harm our healthcare system, cost jobs and increase, not decrease healthcare costs as promised. The goal of this education has been to encourage Pennsylvanians to rise up [...]
December 17, 2012 JHealth Care & Entitlements
by Randy DeSoto AFP-PA Field Coordinator Free market advocate Todd Keefer is AFP-PA’s activist of the month. Todd, heralding from York County, has made it his mission to become an expert of the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) and inform others of its many flaws. To that end he has written letters to the editor, the [...]
December 14, 2012 JTechnology
by Katy Abram, Director of New Media Here at Americans for Prosperity we wage our policy battles from various fronts. The good old days of phone calls and office visits to elected officials has now moved to inundating their Twitter streams and Facebook pages with messages from constituents. Hand in hand these techniques have shaped [...]
December 13, 2012 JHealthcare & entitlements
I must say that this healthcare battle has been going on for quite some time. Conservatives have fought non-stop to push back against Obama’s healthcare law. During the past year Americans for Prosperity has worked diligently with our activists urging Governor Corbett to come out against the creation of a state based exchange. We have travelled [...]
December 11, 2012 JBudget & Spending
This week local activists from Americans for Prosperity-Pennsylvania will visit the offices of Representatives Charley Dent, Pat Meehan, Todd Platts, and Bill Shuster to urge them to vote against tax hikes and for spending reductions in the lame duck session. Activists plan to visit the local district offices of the legislators in Allentown, Hollidaysburg, Springfield, [...]