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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - February 26, 2009
Contact: Tom Jenney (602) 478-0146, infoAZ@afphq.org
AZ Taxpayer Tea Party Stirs Grassroots to Action
AFP Arizona reports an "outpouring of enthusiasm"
among activists
PHOENIX - The Arizona chapter of Americans for Prosperity (AFP
Arizona) reported today that it has been inundated with emails, phone
calls, and Facebook hits from new taxpayer activists statewide, in response
to its call yesterday for an Arizona Taxpayer Tea Party, which will take
place tomorrow (Friday, February 27), from noon to one at Tempe Beach Park.
"I have received rsvp emails from over a hundred new
activists during the last 24 hours," said AFP Arizona director Tom
Jenney. "And we continue to get a new crop every hour. I
don't think I've ever seen such an outpouring of enthusiasm among taxpayer
activists."
AFP Arizona has joined allied pro-taxpayer organizations and
thousands o f taxpayer activists from around the country in the Tea Party
campaign begun by the National Chicago Tea Party organization. Many
of the new Arizona activists were discovered through AFP's national
NoStimulus.com petition campaign, in which over 430,000 Americans signed up
to protest the gigantic federal spending binge.
"The liberals in Washington went ahead and passed the
Spendulus package," Jenney said. "But American taxpayers are
clearly mobilizing for the next round of fights."
One of the speakers for tomorrow's protest is state Senator Thayer Verschoor
(R-Gilbert), who is working in the Arizona Legislature to rally a
thin majority of fiscal conservatives against proposals to raise property
taxes to fix the state's gigantic budget deficit, a deficit AFP
Arizona blames on "reckless over-spending" during the Napolitano
years. There will also be an appearance from Wally the (Empty)
Taxpayer Wallet, known for giving out an "Empty Wallet" award to
the biggest spender in the state Legislature.
The meetup for the Tea Party is at 11:45 a.m. at the Tempe
Beach Park, on the south side of the lake, west of the Mill Avenue Bridge. A parking lot
is available next to the park, on Rio Salado Parkway. More
information is available at www.aztaxpayers.org.
Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is a nationwide organization of
citizen leaders committed to advancing every20individual's right to
economic freedom and opportunity. AFP believes reducing the size and scope
of government is the best safeguard to ensuring individual productivity and
prosperity for all Americans. AFP educates and engages citizens in support
of restraining state and federal government growth, and returning
government to its constitutional limits. For more information, visit www.americansforprosperity.org
tjenney@afphq.org
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