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Business has been chugging along in Pierre, and we have been hard at work on issues that are important to you, our fellow free market, limited government patriot. As the legislative session reaches the halfway mark, I wanted to give you a quick update on what’s going on in our capital, what it means for […]
Hope [Scholarship] springs eternal in sunny Florida as week five of the Florida legislative calendar comes to an end, and the final four weeks continue to loom. The major themes of the week were educational freedom, the rejection of corporate welfare, and the reduction of regulatory red-tape. View Week 5 Florida Billboard here Among the […]
Duluth, MN – Americans for Prosperity-Minnesota (AFP-MN) sent a key vote alert to the members of the Duluth City Council urging them to vote “No” on a big government overreach proposal to ban the sale of certain legal tobacco products. AFP-MN first voiced their concerns in January, and immediately began running a digital campaign to […]
In late 2017, Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed into law the most sweeping tax reforms in a generation. And now, many Oklahomans are seeing the benefits of those reforms in our paychecks. Countless posts on social media have recounted the surprise of many who discovered a little (or a lot) more on their […]
Harrisburg, Pa. – Americans for Prosperity-Pennsylvania (AFP-PA) on Friday thanked Senator Pat Toomey and Representatives Scott Perry, Keith Rothfus, Lloyd Smucker, Bob Brady, and Brendan Boyle for voting against the two-year budget, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018. This deal blows up spending caps enacted by the Budget Control Act of 2011 and massively increases spending by over $300 […]
HB7055 expands transparency and options for Florida students and teachers Tallahassee, FL – Americans for Prosperity-Florida (AFP-FL) is cheering on legislative leaders who stood boldly to pass an innovative education reform bill. HB7055 creates the Hope Scholarship, which allows alternative education options for victims of bullying and harassment across Florida. It promotes worker freedom by […]
RICHMOND, Va. – Americans for Prosperity-Virginia (AFP-VA) on Wednesday expressed disappointment in members of the House Appropriations General Government & Capital Outlay Subcommittee for rejecting Delegate Michael Webert’s House Bill 242, which would have prohibited all taxpayer financing of professional sports stadiums. AFP-VA has consistently opposed stadium subsides, which the organization views as a form […]
Harrisburg, Pa. – Americans for Prosperity-Pennsylvania (AFP-PA) State Director Beth Anne Mumford on Tuesday released the following statement in response to Governor Tom Wolf’s budget address, in which he called for $1 billion in new spending: “Gov. Wolf should have given his budget address in Punxsutawney because it was like Groundhog Day, with Pennsylvanians reliving the […]
