May 15 2009
Americans for Prosperity Applauds South Carolina State Senator Kevin Bryant
-Signs No Climate Tax Pledge-
WASHINGTON-The free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) today applauded South Carolina State Senator Kevin Bryant (3rd District) for signing the group’s “No Climate Tax Pledge.” By doing so, Bryant joins over 160 lawmakers on the federal, state and local levels pledging to “oppose legislation relating to climate change that includes a net increase in government revenue.”
“The one thing elected officials should be able to agree on is that global warming shouldn’t be used as an excuse to hike taxes on citizens and businesses,” said AFP Policy Director Phil Kerpen. “We encourage all of South Carolina’s elected officials and candidates for elected office to sign the pledge.”
President Obama has made no secret of his intent to advance the cap-and-trade legislation, which would amount to the largest tax increase in American history. One version of the scheme, introduced last year by Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and John Warner (R-VA), is scored by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office as a net revenue increase of $1.2 trillion within just the first 7 years the bill is in effect.
“Using the guise of climate change to transfer dollars from hard-working citizens to bureaucratic big government is unacceptable,” said Kerpen. “Regardless of their stance on global warming, this should be common ground for all of our elected officials at all levels of government.”
The pledge is available online at www.NoClimateTax.com. AFP does not endorse candidates. All elected officials and candidates are encouraged to sign the pledge and go on the record in opposition to using the climate change issue to increase taxes and grow the size of government.
Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is the nation’s premier grassroots organization committed to advancing every individual’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
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May 17, 2009 @ 18:11:36
oh yeah and there’s also the allegation that Art Pope went around buying votes in the 2006 republican primaries. (R) Stephen LaRoque later apologized after Pope’s well paid lawyers hammered him for 14 months…
I haven’t even gotten into Pope’s wacky politics and pseudoscience…”Oh, No” pretty much sums it up
May 17, 2009 @ 18:01:50
Just another example of Sen. Bryant standing up to the lobbyists. And by standing up to them, I mean…uh…doing their bidding. Oh…you guys didn’t know that millionaire lobbyist Art Pope is the director of the “grass roots” Americans for Prosperity…hmm.(http://www.americansforprosperity.org/about/directors).
Oh but you know us liberals, we’ll say anything about anybody. Oh wait yeah there’s also this quote from (R) Richard Morgan, fmr. state legislator from Moore, NC. (http://static.scribd.com/docs/i7apctr3vwds8.swf?INITIAL_VIEW=width)
“[Pope is] an eccentric millionaire with gobs of money…I feel compelled to stand up to Art and the people Art influences with his money and try to prevent our party from being turned back in time and turning the state’s clock back 50 years.”
[Ugh, I quoted Richard Morgan. I need a shower.]
Here’s another republican quote, this time from David Miner, fmr Cary NC legislator.
(http://www.newsobserver.com/114/story/394092.html)
“What is scary about Art Pope is that it is one person,” Miner said. “There is not any committee. There is no oversight. There is no elected official involved to face the voters every two years or every six years. It’s him and his own personal agenda, and he is throwing his money around big time.”
May 16, 2009 @ 07:44:07
Isn’t “Americans for Prosperity” the group that is notorious for its fake grassroots efforts, funneling millions of dollars of oil and coal industry cash across the nation to spread their message of global warming denial? Didn’t it pen near-identical op-eds in multiple papers from the respective AFP state directors defending carbon dioxide — “the life-giving gas that makes trees grow tall and flowers bloom.”
Nice.