AFP: "We love tea parties!"

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 affiliates

ARLINGTON, 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, and Washington, D.C.

Americans for Prosperity, which has 30 state chapters and affiliates, is partnering in major tea party events in location across the country, from Tempe, Arizona, to Portland, Oregon and Atlanta, Georgia. The tea parties even started earlier in the week – on Tuesday, about 400 AFP and tea party activists gathered on the lawn of the Missouri state Capitol. In Sacramento, 450 attended AFP Foundation’s California Defending the American Dream® Summit on Wednesday.

“The passion and energy on the ground from hundreds of thousands of tea party and AFP activists is electric,” said Tim Phillips, president of AFP. “They are more committed than ever to limiting government and protecting our freedoms.”

Tim Phillips is speaking at the Arizona tea party at Diablo Stadium in Tempe today at 6:00 local time. AFP state directors are helping lead events around the nation, from Maryland and Virginia to Nebraska, Texas, Washington state and California. For more information about state chapters, please visit www.americansforprosperity.org.

AFP is promoting the petition at www.NovemberIsComing.com, where more than 360,000 Americans have told members of Congress that their votes on big-government legislation will determine their fate at the polls in November.