tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16578069154837331922011-12-29T17:36:27.570-06:00For too long, taxpayers have had to take a backseat to the media, lobbyists, lawmakers, and other elected officials who take for granted what makes this country unique. This blog will serve as a new "voice" for the everyday American taxpayer. We demand the right to determine just how much government we want and are willing to pay for!Taxpayers' Voicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06370148809905780821noreply@blogger.comBlogger5531100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657806915483733192.post-6263655150063720462011-10-13T15:18:00.002-05:002011-10-13T15:18:41.681-05:00

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Today’s Houston Chronicle carries an article on Gov. Rick Perry’s policies and his background. I realize we will be reading a lot about Perry and his policy decisions. The headline says it all -- "Perry Change Not For Better" - http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/falkenberg/7698834.html But this one begged my response, which I provided in an email to the reporter: Lisa, I

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The revelations on Agenda 21 have come from many directions. Here are three instances... —————————————————————————————————————————— 1. Larry Bell is a columnist for Forbes magazine and recently wrote a blunt critique of Agenda 21. (Prof. Bell is an architecture professor at the University of Houston and recently published a book on the flaws of the global warming trend. He will be a speaker July

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I had opportunity to travel with Gov. Rick Perry to Amarillo yesterday (along with Appropriations Chairman Jim Pitts) and am amazed at his vitality and quick recovery from recent back surgery. He may not be jogging again yet, but he maintains a schedule grueling enough to tire a 25 year-old.He was on and off airplanes, carrying bags, energetic and optomist.Let's just set the record straight --

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No elected official has been in office for 10 years and voters agree with every decision they make – unless they vote “present” consistently. But Governors don’t have opportunity to take a pass on decision-making. During a campaign, every vulnerability of every candidate is vetted. And though Gov. Perry isn't a candidate now, his record is under the microscope. I was interviewed yesterday

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These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting. We can and must cut federal spending.• Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy. $445 million annual savings.• Save America's Treasures Program. $25 million annual savings..• International Fund for Ireland. $17 million annual savings.• Legal Services Corporation. $420 million annual savings.• National Endowment for

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From the Heritage Alliance: DALLAS, Dec. 8, 2010 – In the first round of an ongoing, informal telephone poll, Heritage Alliance found more than 89 percent of registered Republican primary voters in favor of a more conservative Texas House Speaker to lead next year’s session. In polling that began one week after the November elections, Heritage Alliance surveyed 8,238 “1R” voters—those who

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Texas voters: early voting starts Monday, Oct 18 – you may want to check out these voter guides: http://www.heritagealliancepac.com/voterguidepanel.phphttp://www.freevotersguide.com/

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The Texas Model The Lone Star State speeds up its recovery with pro-business policies.Texas already looms large in its own imagination. Its elevated self-image didn’t need this: More than half of the net new jobs in the U.S. during the past 12 months were created in the Lone Star State. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 214,000 net new jobs were created in the United States from August

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Texas vs. California – Texas is the clear winner “by a mile” I’m proud to be a Texan! Comparing California and Texas is a great example of how public policies matter - and they impact not only the economy but our very way of life. In Texas, the payroll count is back to pre-recession levels. California is nearly 1.5million jobs in the hole. Why such a difference? Chalk it up to taxes,

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This morning, CBS’s Sunday Morning had a rare moment of -- should we call it objectivity?The segment came on right before the record-setting rock skipper section. (51 skips – great Americana story even though a kilted Scott was also featured!)Last week, Ben Stein commented that this was not the time to raise taxes on the top income-earners…those who create jobs.CBS certainly could not let that

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The Actual Truth About Bill White And Houston Property TaxesBy: Bob LemerFormer Houston mayor Bill White wants Texas voters to focus on Houston’s property tax experiences on his watch and his stewardship of the City’s finances. Fair enough.First, let’s see what Bill White says, and then I will give you the actual truth.Bill White says he cut Houston property tax rates. Yes, Bill White did cut

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Here is Sen. Snowe’s official statement on the lame duck issue. I agree that Congress should not reconvene in a lame duck session after the November elections, since such sessions often are not productive. As a strong advocate for limited government and responsible governance, I share the concerns over the potential lack of accountability inherent in a lame duck session.That puts both the Maine

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This from Tom Pauken, Chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission:The Obama administration has unveiled new initiatives ostensibly designed to put Americans back to work. Paying for its $50 billion infrastructure proposal by eliminating the incentives for domestic oil and gas production makes no sense at all to me and would be a job killer for Texas. Here is a better idea – it is called the

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Texas has sued the EPA in a fight to maintain control over the air quality permitting process – one which the EPA has essentially okayed for 16 years, and one which has met the air quality standards set by the federal government.But Texas didn’t do it just how the Obama EPA wants it done. I love how Texas AG Greg Abbott started the letter to EPA administrator Jackson and the regional guy:“In

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The Los Angeles teachers union president said Sunday he was organizing a “massive boycott” of The Times after the newspaper began publishing a series of articles that uses student test scores to estimate the effectiveness of district teachers.“You’re leading people in a dangerous direction, making it seem like you can judge the quality of a teacher by … a test,” said A.J. Duffy, president of

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A new television ad starting today in 11 states and over 27 media markets educates citizens about the straining effects of out-of-control government spending on the American taxpayer. The street of Hollywood are paved with tax dollars, not gold but the $862 billion stimulus paid for pork barrel projects all across the country, including $1.1 million to pave Hollywood’s Sunset Strip, while

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Glenn Beck has also address the Presidential attack on Americans for Prosperity:Beck discussing the Obama comments bashing AFP at a fundraiser early this week in Austin. Video here: http://www.glennbeck.com/content/videos/?uri=channels/390088/999420 Trascript here: http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/196/44234/ After all, can't citizens organize without using federal dollars and a

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President Barack Obama was at the plush Four Seasons Hotel addressing mega-donors to the Democratic Party on Monday when he attempted to trash Americans for Prosperity:“Right now all around this country there are groups with harmless-sounding names like Americans for Prosperity, who are running millions of dollars of ads against Democratic candidates all across the country. And they don't have

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As a former journalist, I read things like this and hear of the "Journolist" and see why the public has lost faith in the main stream media and has turned to "new" media for their news: http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/20/documents-show-media-plotting-to-kill-stories-about-rev-jeremiah-wright/I am eager to head to RightOnLine in Las Vegas this week for networkinng, training and conversations with

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You may be spoiled if you are concerned about America’s future. No matter that our unemployment rates are sky-high, that the country is $13 trillion in debt, that Congress is overspending and that the government is taking over financial institutions, auto companies, and trash-talking America abroad. As one activist put it, Obama should be mailing taxpayers the KY. Americans are spoiled.That’s

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The Lone Star Report did a great job pointig out how the poll which appeared in the Houston Chronicle recently was nothing short of rigged. The "findings" claimed that most Texans don't want the elected State Board of Education to set the curriculum. (It fell short of simply saying parents wanted to slow down in front of the school and let their kids jump out - leaving the teachin' and raisin'

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AFP-Texas Praises Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornynfor Opposing Financial TakeoverIn response to yesterday’s vote on the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill, Americans for Prosperity-Texas Director Peggy Venable issued the following statement:“We commend Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn for holding firm and opposing the disastrous Obama-Dodd-Frank big bank bailout bill

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From 1998 to 2008, the Children's Educational Opportunity Foundation funded tuition vouchers for residents of San Antonio's Edgewood Independent School District that ranged in value from $2,000 to $4,700 per year, depending on the student's grade level and whether the selected school was in the Edgewood district. The vouchers were available to any student in Edgewood whose family chose to

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Then-candidate Barack Obama said, "No family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase." (September 12, 2008)One little-known fact about the health care bill that Obama pushed and Congress passed is found in the 2011 W-2 Tax Forms. Title IX Revenue Provisions—Subtitle A: Revenue Offset "(Sec. 9002) Requires employers to include in the W-2 form of each employee the

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A new CBS poll has confirmed what any rational, sane adult in America knows. Obama is doing an abysmal job running our country. Fully 38% say the economy is the number one issue. 54% disapprove of Obama’s handling Strong disapproval is of Obama is 41%. “It's not all about Obama; even among people who approve of his job performance, 51 percent are inclined to look for someone new for Congress.

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Have you ever wondered about that “Hoveround” ad on TV: “9 out of 10 people pay little or nothing for their hoveround.” It is advertised as a “new electric wheelchair” and appears to be to electric wheelchairs what scooters are to the motorcycle. Don’t even Left-eologues (a term I have coined and hope it catches on) get it? Somebody pays – and I’m not in one of those chairs. Hum…I pay taxes.

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Government Spending… I didn’t need cold-weather boots in Iraq By James Bernsen In the case of social welfare spending, some government dollars, in fact, are counter-productive. Most rational people agree on the need for some kind of social safety net, but what we've constructed instead isn't a safety net but a hammock. Government on all levels has been subsidizing indolence for years, and it has

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I am plagerizing what was written by a North Dakota public utility commissioner - it applies for Texas, too - so here is the Texas version:As President Ronald Reagan would say, "There they go again." The Associated Press reported on June 29 that President Obama is working with several Senators to "quietly draft" a version of Cap and Trade deemed "utility-only." They have been trying for 18

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With news of tarballs on Texas beaches and the Obama Administration having no plan to clean up the gulf, incompetence is rampant. Yesterday, Gov. Perry announced the formation of the Gulf Project, a coalition that will bring together the state’s most respected energy and environment experts, our top research universities and state officials to help ensure Texas never endures a disaster like the

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NASA -- the National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- has had some lofty missions. (Think mission to the moon.) But now, it appears President Obama has diverted their focus from outter space to feel-good international politics.In a June 30 interview with al Jazeera, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said that his "perhaps foremost mission" is to "find a way to reach out to the Muslim

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Taxpayers and citizens advocates - take notice! We thought you might like this post by Phil Fountain, referencing the HillCo lobby war:http://www.empowertexans.com/Issues/lobby_war_greater_transparencyThe section is particularly interesting:...Particularly when many lobbyists are "getting paid handsomely" (a phrase used by Mr. Schwartz) to represent governmental entities, such as cities,

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Mark Levin is partnering with Americans for Prosperity.AFP is partnering with Mark Levin to harness the grassroots Americans who are the voice of liberty and are willing to remind elected officials that November IS coming… www.NovemberIsComing.com.On a conference call today with key activists, Levin asked "without the grassroots, would DC be listening? Would even one party be listening?" If

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Texas is booming; New York, not so much.We hate to say "we told you so" (not really) but it's all over the Internet. Texas is outpacing other states in job creation. In a recent interview with Hot Air and conservative blogger Melissa Clouthier, he said, “States that have good polices … those are going to be the states that people are going to move to,” and pointed out that Texas is among the

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Texas is No. 1 in job creation. A recent Austin America-Statesman provides half the story on Texas economic development.Today, the Austin American-Statesman published a story on TexasOne (http://www.texasone.us/about-texasone.html). TexasOne is the privately-funded entity designed for economic development in Texas. In a cursory read, this is a fair story. They did a lot of research. Readers

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Today, June 25, 2010, the Texas Education Agency posted the newly adopted Texas Social Studies TEKS (standards for Grades K-12) that were adopted for Second Reading and Final Adoption (with technical edits) by the Texas State Board of Education on May 21, 2010. Now everyone can see for themselves what was adopted, and the public will no longer have to rely upon the liberal-left media and other

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TEA should release the text version of the final social studies standards today. See the Liberty Institute (formerly Free Market Foundation) commentary on this at: www.texaslegislativeupdate.wordpress.com See them set the record straight at www.juststatethefacts.com

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This information from Texas Rep. Dan Flynn:I have spent considerable time working with conservative groups and testifying before the State Board of Education (SBOE) to assure our Texas’ students deserve science education, not political indoctrination as the new reading materials will promote the phonics-based approach and for the first time in thirty years, phonics returns to Texas public

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Fasten your seatbelts, folks in TX SD 22 and TX Cong Dist 17. Change is on the horizon. Serving in the US Congress since 1991, Cong. Chet Edwards fate may have been sealed tonight. Let's explain...Gulf War vet Brian Birdwell has defeated former state senator and fellow Republican David Sibley in a special runoff to fill the state senator Kip Averitt. This is a special election to serve out

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Cumulative sticker shock has set in One of the reasons the federal budget is chronically in the red is that most people, historically, couldn't care less. The national debt is an unfathomable abstraction that doesn't show up on your 1040 or your monthly bills. Over the last few decades, very few people lost sleep worrying if the budget would ever be in balance. That is, according to one

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Protect the environment AND the ConstitutionWas Cong. Joe Barton right in apologizing to BP? Should the Obama Administration bypass the courts, and Congress, and assume Supreme power and authority over reimbursement of those harmed by the oil spill? Does Obama believe in separation of powers or is he omnipotent? So many questions. Yes, Obama fired the president of GM. That was unprecedented

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That's right, “Hat and Cattle” Texas Tramples “politically correct and pathetic” California.“Texas vs. California”—hardly any phrase more succinctly captures the battle going on today for America’s philosophical soul. “… the subtext of this post should be clear: the Obama administration is behaving as though California were its model for growth. Increasing unfunded liabilities, proposing $1

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Didn't Obama's press lackey Gibbs say that the Administration had placed no impediments upon foreign ships coming into the Gulf to assist in the clean-up? Mind you, he did not claim the Administration had asked for any help or sought expertise from domestic or foreign experts. Well, folks. it is taking an act of Congress to get help to the Gulf:Hutchison and LeMieux Introduce Legislation to

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Cong. Louie Gohmert (R-TX Dist 1) - in 1999 in the Clinton Administration, someone made a price adjustment and it cost the US Government. Cong. Gohmert talked about the oil spill - that the team to inspect thejob was a father and son team. What is going on is a travesty. I am a beiever in drilling where God gave us resources, but we need to do so carefully. Even when Katrina came, some rigs

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AFP Texas Advisory Chairman interviewed Cong. Kevin Brady.Brady - "Ben, you are a job creater. Thank you for what you do."We are so deep in debt and the national deficit is averaging $1 trillion over the nexgt decade. They pick industries they can blame and go after them with higher taxes. They are outsourcing the energy industry. We have new taxes on capital gains, investment, savings.

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Cong. Michael McCaul, interviewed by Will lutz at the RightOnLine booth at the RPT convention, was asked if Republicans learned why they lost two years ago. Are we ready to take over?We definitely are ready to take over - the Party had experienced "Bush Fatigue" but now we have a common enemy and a common goal -- to defeat Obama, Pelosi and Reid. I don't take earmarks -- the system is broken

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Ted Cruz is interviewed at the RightOnLine booth at the RPT convention in Dallas, focusing on the success of the tea parties and defending individual liberty and the Tenth Amendment. Former Solicitor General Cruz was asked about his future plans -- he had been a candidate for Attorney General in Texas should Judge Abbott leave the office to seek another office...he was the sole Republican in the

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Texas' elected State Board of Education member Tincy Miller is being interviewed by Lone Star Report's Will Lutz. Will Lutz can you dispell some misperceptions:Thomas Jeffersonis listed at least 25 times in our curriculum. The debate is whether or not Thomas Jefferson was in world history -- he is in because he was influenced by some of the great thinkers...Indoctrination is always something

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AFP State Director Peggy Venable took her turn in the RightOnline hot seat at the hottest booth at the RPT state convention in Dallas.She said the battlecry of conservatives now is "November is Coming!" "The grassroots of this country are fed up with the out-of-control spending and the stripping away of our freedoms," she said. "All over this nation, people are letting their tax-and-spend elected

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Lt. Gov David Dewhurst is interviewed by Ben Streusand Upcoming session, we will have a blanced budget without raising taxes, and we have redistricting -- we have a busy session upcoming.We have transportation, public education and higher education challengs. Washington -- ObamaCare, spending, offshore mratorium on drilling, this Administration does not respect states rights.We will absolutely

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State Rep. Wayne Christian (Center, TX, in East TX) is chairman of the Republican Party of Texas Platform Committee Chairman. Ben Sttreusand, AFP-TX Advisory Chairman, is interviewing Chrmn Christian."We have awakened citizens of Texas" said Christian. He is also president of the TX legislattive caucus Texas Conservative Coalition. Christian explained how this coalition is the only

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Retired businessman Steve Munisteri is hoping to woo the delegates at the Republican Party of Texas State Convention to elect him chairman of the state Republican party.He's been a delegate himself for many years, attending both state and national convention. His first one was in 1976 when he was in high school, and the SREC race that year was decided by 1 vote - from a member of his high school

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Friday, June 11 the RightOnLine booth will feature an all-star lineup: Galeston /county Tax Assessor Collector - Cheryl Johnson, Texas Comptroller Susan Combs, State Rep. Wayne Christian (President of the Texas Conservative Coalition), Lt Gov. David Dewhurst, The Hon. Ted Cruz, SBOE member Tincy Miller, Texas Workforce Chairman Tom Pauken, Governor Rick Perry, US Senator John Cornyn, AG Greg

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Cathie Adams is interviewed at the RPT Convention: At the 2010 Republican State Convention in Dallas, Cathie Adams touts running Texas Eagle Forum for 16 years and has experience recruiting candiates and her background as a grassroots worker. Plans to raise $7 m in 10 months - then training and recruiting candidates...has raised $2 million in 7 months, "the convention is paid in full - we have

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We are here at the Republican State Convention in Dallas with the RightOnLine booth. Today, the three candidates for Republican Party of Texas (RPT) Chairman are being interviewed - Tom Mechler, Current Chairman Cathie Adams, and Steve Munisteri. We are starting a few minutes late due to "technical difficulties" and the interviews will be posted later on YouTube (stay tuned). In the guest seat

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The City of Grapevine officials should be awarded Hall of Shame recognition for going behind closed doors and hiring a former legislator and his lobby firm.The City has been charged with violation of the Open Meetings Act and many taxpayers are angry not only at the tactics used to take the action, but that the City is using tax dollars to hire a lobbyist who has opposed taxpayer protections.Fred

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Texas is our nation's energy capital, producing and refining a large portion of the energy products that our nation depends on. While we are the major energy producing state, we also have achieved trmendous success in improving air quality:• The air Texans breathe today is cleaner than it was in 2000, even though our population has grown by nearly 3.5 million people.• Between 2000 and 2008,

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According to one recent estimate, Obamacare will add more than $500 billion to the deficit over the next 10 years and $1.5 trillion in the decade following.Remember how President Barack Obama promised that his health care plan would reduce the deficit and put us on a path towards fiscal responsibility? Remember how Congress kept gaming the system to come up with the Congressional Budget Office (

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Texas was recently praised in Education Week magazine for its adoption of college- and career-ready standards, and for holding schools accountable for ensuring students are college-ready.Each year, on the anniversary of the 2005 National Education Summit on High Schools, Achieve (www.Achieve.org) releases a 50-state progress report on the alignment of high school policies with the demands of

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In Grand Isle, when Obama made his trip, workers had been bused in to clean the beach. The workers were there abobut an hour and when Obama left, they got back in buses and left. I heard this from a friend and now I hear it was on the 5 pm news in New Orleans. When I worked at US Dept of the Interior (in various positions - Secretary's public affairs, running Take Pride in America, and White

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California vs. Texas Governor of California is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks dog. California : #1. Governor starts to intervene, reflects upon the movie "Bambi" and then realizes he should stop; the coyote is only doing what is natural. #2. He calls animal control. Animal control captures coyote and spends $200 testing it for diseases and $500

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You will likely be reading misrepresentations regarding what the Texas elected State Board of Education has done in approving the social studies curriculum.If you hear they have taken Thomas Jefferson out of the curriculum, don't believe it. If you hear that they have replaced the concept of slavery with references to the "Atlantic Triangular Trade", don't believe it.The Texas (anti-)Freedom

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Three out of four Texans support challenging ObamaCare in court. And 73% of the Texans polled opposed ObamaCare in the first place. Those are the findings a group which focuses on what Texans are thinking. Go to www.TexasResearch.org to read more.

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In Bulverde recently, I was approached by a tea party attendee who said he wanted to talk to me. He said, “I am 88 years old. I fought in WWII, in the Korean War and in Vietnam. It was my choice. I wanted to fight tyrants. Never did I think that I would need to fight on in my own country.” He went on to say that when he entered the military, he was told that his country would provide him

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PERRY REJECTS FEDERAL HEALTH CARE INSURANCE POOLGov. Rick Perry today told the federal health and human services commissioner that Texas will not participate in creating a high risk health insurance pool under the new federal health care law. Perry said the program lacks rules to guide the states and appears to be underfunded at the federal level. Perry cited conditions similar to those that

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Democrats have decided that in order to prevent Wall Street from starting more financial meltdowns, wrecking the economy and leaving the American taxpayer holding the bag, we need to give more oversight authority to the same government employees who were busy surfing Internet porn as private investors frantically tried to warn them about Bernie Madoff. Ann Coulter had it right: http://

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FedEx and the Teamsters are battling over aviation legislation that will contain provisions to make it easier for unions to organize airline workers.Congress is, yet again, attempting to expand the role of unions and regulation by forcing this bill on to the employees at FedEx. None of these articles interview or quote a FedEx employee ...do they even want this bill, which would probably force

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Last week I had the opportunity to participate in the Texas Tribune's College Civics Fair at Texas Tech University. The fair is designed to expose students to different groups that encourage civic participation, so they invited Americans for Prosperity to host a booth. I manned a booth directly across the aisle (no pun intended) from two organizations which hold vastly different views from AFP -

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We at Americans for Prosperity are joining Revere America as they kicks off a Texas petition campaign to repeal and replace ObamaCare on the 235th Anniversary of Paul Revere’s Ride.Revere America, an organization dedicated to advancing common sense public policies rooted in freedom and free markets, will be holding a petition-signing rally to kick off their national campaign to gather the

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Americans for Prosperity Partnering in Tax Day Tea Parties Across the U.S.A.Tea parties and rallies in all 30 AFP state chapters and affiliatesARLINGTON, Va. – It’s Tax Day in America, and for the second year in a row, that means it’s Tea Party Day. Americans who want lower taxes and more freedom are pouring out of their homes and businesses to send that message in their hometowns, state capitals

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At today's Texas Senate Finance Committee meeting:Sen. Williams said, “people don’t participate because they can’t understand it and it is a game which discourages taxpayer participation. Cheryl Johnson – Galveston County Tax Assessor and Collector: In 1997, Texas passed a residential property tax cap of 10% which has made a huge difference. What was once a Houston problem has now spread across

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President Obama seems to believe that most of his sweeping agenda to transform the country can be accomplished without even a vote of Congress.By Phil Kerpen - FOXNews.com While Congress considers sweeping new legislation to permanently institutionalize the bailouts and federal control of our financial system (right on the heels of their health care takeover, of course) several other sweeping

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What does ObamaCare do to SCHIP? According to Americans for Prosperity Foundation, it simply shatters any semblance of state control.The State’s Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was scheduled to expire, yet again, at the end of 2013. ObamaCare extended funding and authorization through the end of 2015. http://docs.house.gov/energycommerce/MEDICAID.pdfThe Arizona legislature passed

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A new organization has emerged – Independent Conservative Republicans of Texas, founded by Sen. Dan Patrick of Houston. FoxNews host Mike Huckabee and radio talk show host Laura Ingraham both did long segments on it earlier this week. The message is a simple one – a contract with Texas (below). To see if your Senator or State Rep have signed on, go to the website:

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Policies matter (www.LoneStarStrong.com project)AndElections matter (www.NovemberIsComing.com project)

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AFP Foundation and Lone Star Foundation host policy forumTexas has the most vibrant economy in the country today. We Texans may from time to time take for granted the relative good economy we are enjoying here in the Lone Star State. Few citizens realize the progress Texas has made to be the best economy in the nation. AFP-Texas Foundation is launching a new effort – Lone Star Strong (

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The DC Circuit Court of Appeals slapped the FCC today by ruling in Comcast v. FCC that the regulatory body overstepped its legal bounds when it tried to regulate Internet management practices. This precludes Net Neutrality regulation, which is at heart regulation of how ISPs manage their networks.We saw the story in the NYT and on RedState.com, so we are linking to the latter:http://

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"Wing-nuts", "Narrow-minded tea party nut jobs" -- Congratulations! You have the heart of the Democratic party scared and on the run.All over the lame street media, we hear that tea party event attendees spew hate and are anti-American. Our opponents will do anything to minimize the tea party movement and to attempt to demonize us. But look at this message from James Carville on behalf of the

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April 1, 2010So what do we mean by that, exactly? The fallout from ObamaCare is just beginning, with news articles every day showing the damage the health overhaul law is poised to inflict on our economy and health sector. The latest Rasmussen poll found 54% of those surveyed want the law repealed. But there are real problems in our health sector that demand it be replaced with a better plan.

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Tea Party Movement: We are the "Fringe" According to ObamaPresident Obama is leading the effort to marginalize and to discredit the Tea Party Movement. Why? He should take full credit for the countrys upheaval.Now, even the Lame Stream Media leader, the Washington Post, admits the strength of the discontent across the country.A Washington Post poll taken last week showed that more people view

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Tax Freedom Day® will arrive on April 9 this year, the 99th day of 2010. That means Americans will work well over three months of the year, from January 1 to April 9, before they have earned enough money to pay this year’s tax obligations at the federal, state and local levels. Tax Freedom Day arrives a day later in 2010 than it did in 2009, but more than two weeks earlier than in 2007. This

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Texans Experience “Tax Freedom” on April 5AUSTIN – Texas pay off their taxes earlier than the average U.S. taxpayer. U.S. citizens will have to work until April 9 this year to pay for the cost of government. It was April 8 last year. Thanks to the limited-government, low-tax policies of Texas’ elected leadership, Texans will begin working for themselves – and not the federal government – four

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We in Texas have fought – successfully – to keep the concept of American Exceptionalism in our social studies curriculum. With good reason. It is at the core of who we are as a nation. Many of us even wonder why we must fight that battle.An article on RedState.com explains why. Aaron Gardner wrote a piece which appeared on RedState.com after reading a National Review piece written by Richard

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Rev. Al Sharpton’s Pants On FireSharpton Attempts to Marginalize Tea Party Movement Last night, Rev. Al Sharpton lied. On a segment with Bill O’Reilly, Rev. Sharpton said “I saw the tape” referring to video of some tea party attendees yelling racial slurs at Black members of Congress.That’s right. The “Reverend” lied.Alfred Charles "Al" Sharpton, Jr. (born October 3, 1954) is an American

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Our friends at Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse (CALA), (whose mission is to advocate for a fair and just legal system, they have campaigned for an end to abusive and frivolous litigation that hurts our economy, increases costs and delays justice for those with legitimate claims.)CALA recently we shared testimony with members of the Texas House Committee on Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence

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Gov. Rick Perry spoke at a ribbon-cutting in North Richland Hills recently:“Here in Texas, we have worked hard to create and preserve a job-friendly economic climate, where innovation is rewarded and employers have the best chance to succeed. We are seeing more fruits of those labors as we welcome the return of a key manufacturer to this area and the 250 jobs that accompany the revival of this

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“A Mainstream Voice to Counter the Religious Right” -- that is how Texas Freedom Network (TFN) advertises itself. TFN’s purpose in life is to lie, hound, vilify, discredit, and drive from office the elected conservative Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) members. TFN is in league with the liberal media. I ask you parents who have children in the Texas public schools and who are concerned

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By Douglas Kirk We have the exact same thing going on at the local level as we do in Washington. You don’t like Obamacare? Then why should you like a new Comal County Courthouse for $75,000,000?We don’t need it and we can’t afford it. But we ARE going to get it. Why? That’s because your elected officials don’t work for you. They work for themselves and they take care of their buddies at YOUR

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Jobs for America bill is a job-killer; a Pig in a Poke Rep. George Miller (D-CA Dist 7) and 103 co-sponsors (all Democrats - including Texas Reps. Al Green, Eddie Bernice Johnson, and Sheila Jackson Lee) are working to grow government jobs.Let’s be perfectly clear about this – government jobs equate to higher taxes for the rest of us. The bill deceptively titled Jobs for America Act (H.R. 4812)

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Cuban leader applauds US health-care reform billDubious endorsement? Cuban leader endorses US health care reform, says it's about time Paul Haven, Associated Press Writer, On Thursday March 25, 2010, 12:39 pm EDT HAVANA (AP) -- It perhaps was not the endorsement President Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress were looking for.Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro on Thursday declared

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Just days after the president signed his massive $2.5-trillion health care bill into law, we are just beginning to discover the many payoffs, exceptions and special interest deals hidden in the 2,700 pages of legislation. In keeping with the spirit of the process thus far, which has been plagued with broken promises and corruption, the new health care bill exempts top Congressional staffers and

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The left-leaning Texas Tribune has gotten it wrong again. In a recent post, the author suggests that Texas isn't so important after all, after referring to the State Board of Education:"...15 politicians in Texas (or at least the rightest-leaning half of them)" And they fail to mention that Texas' curriculum standards are more stringent than national standards, and 13 states are moving to or

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Texas Watchdog - March 26, 201FREQUENT FLIERS ON PUBLIC PLANES: TEXAS A&M OFFICIALS RACK UP MILLION-DOLLAR BILL ANNUALLY ON SPECIALLY HIRED FLIGHTS To make a meeting on the morning of May 27, 2008 at Fort Hood, then-A&M President Elsa Murano boarded the university's Hawker Beechcraft King Air B200 at Easterwood Airport in College Station for a flight of 113 miles and a roundtrip cost of $1,466.

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Looks like the Daily Texan has done some good reporting here. It exposed the group “Save Our History” as a front group for the University Democrats, MEChA, and the Texas [Anti-]Freedom Network. Remember, MEChA is an organization of wackos that does not want UT celebrating Texas Independence Day on campus and would like to send the Southwest back to Mexico.The report went to the sources, and

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We’re only two days into ObamaCare and we’re already finding out it’s not as advertised. President Obama lauded the bill for immediately barring health insurers from taking children’s preexisting conditions into account. However, it turns out that the bill doesn’t actually do that. Insurers will still be able to refuse coverage to new child applicants, although insurers cannot refuse to pay

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Bill White, former Houston mayor and Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate: PANTS ON FIRE. He has claimed the SBOE has taken Thomas Jefferson out of our curriculum. Shame on you, Bill White!!!Here are the facts, straight from the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE):March 19, 2010: Thomas Jefferson remains in social studies curriculumAfter hours of public testimony and more than 100

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With passage of ObamaCare, Americans may be required to purchase health insurance, but you won't have access to timely heath care. One sacrificed the other.

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Carrying signs reading “No Regulation without Representation” and wearing “Carbon Cops” T-shirts, with green-rapped SmartCars, the tour is rolling through Arkansas and will be traveling the country. The effort is to stop the EPA from broadening its reach and using the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gases. The EPA has moved to determine greenhouse gases, including CO2 which we exhale, as

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We suffered a huge setback in the fight for freedom when the president signed the Democrats' massive health care takeover bill into law. But we don't have time to rest, because the Senate is poised, perhaps as soon as tomorrow, to add a chaser to that bill that will make things much, much worse. The so-called reconciliation bill is so bad that in any other year, it would be the worst bill of

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It has come to public attention that children with pre-existing conditions cannot have coverage which kicks in this year due to "drafting problems", considered a glitch.And some senior drug coverage has been misconstrued.Did they really read the bill? They claim they did - so did they understand the bill?What has the Democratic congress done to America's healthcare and health insurance industry?

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