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Nashville, TN – Americans for Prosperity-Tennessee (AFP-TN) released a statement today on the school choice bill lacking a clear route for approval this session.   AFP-TN State Director Tori Venable released the following statement:   “While we are disappointed that families will have to wait yet another year for educational freedom, we are going to keep working […]

CHATTANOOGA, TN – Following Friday’s vote by employees at the Volkswagen Chattanooga Plant to join UAW, Americans for Prosperity – Tennessee (AFP-TN) is highlighting their opposition and how this top-down labor approach will only hurt Chattanooga. AFP-TN State Director Tori Venable released the following statement: “Friday’s vote represents another top-down labor approach that will have […]

First Step to Amend Constitution to Ban the Statewide Property Tax NASHVILLE, TN – Following the Senate’s passage House Joint Resolution 81 (HJR0081), which takes important steps to add a constitutional amendment banning statewide property taxes in Tennessee, Americans for Prosperity – Tennessee (AFP-TN) is applauding the resolution and efforts to forever ban the statewide […]

Nashville, TN – Today, Americans for Prosperity-Tennessee (AFP-TN) released a slate of new polling showing that ESAs (Education Savings Accounts) are exceedingly popular with rural Tennessee Republican voters.                                                        […]

AFP-TN commissioned Tennessee-based pollster Spry Strategies to poll Republican primary voters on school choice across five separate rural State Senate districts from west, middle, and east Tennessee to get an understanding of how rural Republicans feel about school choice. A cumulative survey, in addition to surveys broken out into individual senate districts, are below.  Combined […]

Nashville, TN – Today, Americans for Prosperity—Tennessee (AFP-TN) commented on the mayor’s announcement that Nashville will pursue another transit referendum similar to one the organization helped kill in 2018. AFP-TN State Director Tori Venable released the following statement: “We’ll have to wait and see what all of the details are. We think Mayor O’Connell is a […]

NASHVILLE, TN – Yesterday, Americans for Prosperity – Tennessee (AFP-TN) hosted a universal school choice and parents’ rights rally at the Tennessee State Capitol with lawmakers, prominent school choice leaders, and grassroots activists. In an effort to fund students, not systems, the group is urging the General Assembly to expand universal school choice across the state. […]

Nashville, TN – Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFPF), today, released a report revealing that Tennessee’s certificate of need (CON) law, over the last two decades, has denied $1.5 billion in new investment in the health care industry, adversely affecting patients in the Volunteer State. AFPF urges the elimination or substantial reduction of Tennessee’s CON program. […]

NASHVILLE, TN – Yesterday, to kick off the start of the 113th General Assembly, Americans for Prosperity – Tennessee (AFP-TN) hosted a day at the Capitol with grassroots activists to advocate for policy priorities including expanding school choice, ensuring parents have a say in their children’s education, and repealing Certificate of Need laws. AFP-TN State Director […]