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AFP-TX Responds to President Obama’s Campaign Visit

Austin, TX – Americans for Prosperity – Texas State Director Peggy Venable issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s campaign visit to Austin: “President Obama’s visit to Austin today is just another demonstration of how out of touch he is with the average American. In a time when unemployment continues to soar and [...]

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Americans for Prosperity Foundation Releases First of Five School Choice Videos

February 28, 2013

Parents Speak Truth to Power: It’s Time for Options, not Marches  AUSTIN – Today, Americans for Prosperity Foundation – Texas released the first in five videos featuring parents who want school choice for their children. Today’s video features brief interviews with a number of parents, while future videos will feature longer interviews with affected parents [...]

AFP Testifies on SB 2: Lifting the cap on charters

February 28, 2013

Americans for Prosperity-Texas enthusiastically supports SB 2 by Chairman Dan Patrick. In Texas today, we have 315,000 students in over 500 failing schools.  Kids’ futures ride on one five-digit code which they have no control over:  their zip code. Public schools assign kids to schools based on their zip codes.  We believe these students should [...]

AFP Testifies on Pension Reform Review

February 25, 2013

HB 13: Public Pension Review – February 25, 2013 By: Peggy Venable, Texas Director Americans for Prosperity-Texas has worked to educate the public on government debt.  According to the Texas Bond Review Board, local government debt in Texas is a shocking $324 billion – it has grown $2 billion in one year. Government debt represents [...]

AFP Releases 112th Congress Scorecard, Neugebauer Receives A+

February 20, 2013

AFP ranks Members of Congress on their votes of defending economic freedom AUSTIN, Texas—Americans for Prosperity-Texas, the state’s premier free market grassroots organization committed to smaller government and economic freedom, today released its scorecard for the 112th Congress.  AFP also launched an interactive online version of its congressional key vote scorecard, which includes AFP key votes [...]

AFP Applauds Transparency Legislation

February 07, 2013

Texas Comptroller Susan Combs and Legislative Leaders Introduced Legislation on Local Debt and Pension Transparency Statement by Peggy Venable, Director, Americans for Prosperity-Texas AUSTIN – Americans for Prosperity-Texas has been the leader in calling public attention to the mounting local government debt in Texas. Comptroller Susan Combs has joined the call for greater transparency and [...]

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