rssAmericans for Prosperity Brings Tea Partiers to Washington
Thursday, November 05, 2009 at 5:23 pm
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It was widely reported that the corporate-funded, small-government, anti-health care reform group Americans for Prosperity was helping to organize Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-Minn.) Tea Party at the Capitol today. ThinkProgress has video of AfP workers handing out signs and talking points to the Tea Partiers the group shuttled in from other areas. According to one AfP staffer, the group paid for 40 buses to bring protesters to today’s event. Watch the video below the jump.
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[...] Americans for Prosperity, a corporate-funded group that opposes the proposed health care reforms, arranged for 40 buses to ship people to the [...]
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Comment posted November 6, 2009 @ 11:28 pm
Yeah, bring in the shills to attract the willful idiots. Sounds like a success story to me.
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[...] for Prosperity (AFP) is responsible for the script. AFP funded many of the tea party events, providing free buses, signs and talking [...]
Comment posted March 29, 2010 @ 10:31 pm
so what's your point? do you object when SEIU or ACORN bus their people to protest and threaten private citizens and their families? NO YOU DON'T!
I was in D.C. on 09/12/09, along with almost 2 million other citizens, protesting again obama's socialist agenda. This was our right – and our duty – to speak out against the assault on our republic and our lives and families!
Americans for Prosperity did not foot the bill for us! They may have arranged for busing for staffers, their friends and families, I don't know. But I do know all us citizens who were there paid our own way!
Everyone was friendly, courteous, and respectful of those around them. We prayed, sang patriotic songs, discussed the issues that brought us there, and proudly CARRIED our flags – unlike the left who likes to trample them and burn them! But I guess you see nothing wrong with that, do you? when my wheel-
chair got stuck in the mud, some men ran over and lifted me up – wheelchair and all – and carried me to the sidewalk I was attempting to reach. Bet you'd never see something like that at an SEIU or ACORN rally!
THERE WAS NOT ONE ARREST! NOT ONE SCRAP OF PAPER ON THE GROUND WHEN WE LEFT! People came in from all 50 states by bus, plane, and car. WE PAID OUR OWN WAY! WE BROUGHT AND BOUGHT OUR OWN FOOD, PAID FOR OUR OWN GAS AND TRANSPORTATION COSTS, AND PAID FOR OUR OWN LODGING! There were over 450 buses there from all over the U.S. – over and above the 40 hired by AFP. Why didn't you do your story about the people on those buses?
BECAUSE THE TRUTH THAT OBAMA IS A SOCIALIST AND MUST BE IMPEACHED DOESN'T FIT IN WITH YOUR SKEWED AGENDA IS WHY!
SHAME ON YOU!
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