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Monday, January 5th 2009
by Ben Marchi
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RICHMOND – Americans for Prosperity-Virginia (AFP-VA) is pledging to fight Gov. Kaine's proposal to take back the rebate that businesses across Virginia receive for their time and labor collecting sales tax for the state.

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Tuesday, December 16th 2008
by Ben Marchi
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AFP-Virginia is gearing up for the state legislative session beginning in January and we are excited to already announce a huge victory for Virginians!

Historically, the Virginia House of Delegates did not require subcommittees to record delegates’ votes. This allowed delegates to kill thousands of bills without ever being held accountable for their vote. AFP-Virginia set out to change this by starting a petition and asking members to call and write their delegates to demand change. Our efforts were publicly noticed:

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Monday, December 15th 2008
by Ben Marchi
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RICHMOND – The Virginia chapter of Americans for Prosperity (AFP-VA) today commended House Republicans for making transparent and accountable government a state priority by requiring recorded subcommittee votes, giving Virginians public access to individual delegate votes on crucial legislation in subcommittees.

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Friday, December 12th 2008
by Ben Marchi
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RICHMOND─ Americans for Prosperity (AFP) praised Virginia house of Delegates Speaker Bill Howell for standing strong against the growing calls for a federal bailout of state and local governments, which AFP opposes as enabling fiscal irresponsibility at the state and local level while sticking federal taxpayers with the bill.

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Sunday, December 7th 2008
by Ben Marchi
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To kick off the fight to record subcommittee votes in the House of Delegates, members from AFP-VA attended the Republican Party of Virginia's annual Advance in Hot Springs, Virginia. Having recorded subcommittee votes is necessary for a transparent accountable government. Currently, bills are killed in subcommittees and the legislators that voted them down cannot be held accountable for their votes.

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