Americans for Prosperity
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Americans For Prosperity (AFP) is a Washington D.C. based political advocacy group which describes itself on its website as "... an organization of grassroots leaders who engage citizens in the name of limited government and free markets on the local, state and federal levels."
History and Mission
AFP is dedicated to promoting a sound economic policy that supports business and regulatory restraint by government. AFP recently hosted an event in Washington D.C. entitled, "Defending the American Dream Summit" on October 5 2007. The topic of the debate was government spending and taxation. Presidential candidates attending included Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Ron Paul, Sam Brownback, Mitt Romney, and Fred Thompson. Other speakers included John Stossel, Dinesh D'Souza, Art Laffer, John Fund,Steve Moore, Herman Cain, Dr. Barry Poulson, and AFP founder David H. Koch.
The organization has state directors in 13 of the 50 states: Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin.[1]
Ballot measures
Oregon
In 2009 in Oregon, the state AFP chapter is organizing opposition to Ted Kulongoski's $733 million tax hike by supporting efforts to qualify the Oregon Tax Hike Referendum (2010) for the ballot.[2]
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References
The original version of this article was taken from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia on 10/2/07
