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FreedomWorks active in Pennsylvania school choice movement

By | 05.17.11 | 12:13 pm

On Monday an installment of Freedom Radio, a podcast production of FreedomWorks, outlined the conservative action group’s involvement in the school choice movement of Pennsylvania.

The Keystone state is in the midst of a heated campaign over SB 1, the state Senate bill that would put the More…

Politifact calls Dick Armey’s statement on faculty at Texas A&M ‘false’

By | 05.04.11 | 3:43 pm

A statement by Dick Armey, the former U.S. House Majority leader from Texas, that only 49 out of 3,000 faculty members at Texas A&M brought in enough money to pay their salaries is false, according to an investigation of the data by the Pulitzer Prize-winning site, Politifact.com

“Upshot: Without More…

Armey, FreedomWorks back Perry in higher ed reform controversy

By | 04.27.11 | 2:48 pm

Image by Matt MahurinThe Texas branch of FreedomWorks has thrust itself into the debate over controversial higher education policies pushed by Gov. Rick Perry and allies. An online petition titled, “Higher Education Reform for Texas NOW!” has drawn about 1,500 signatures so far, on the group’s website.

FreedomWorks heads to Pennsylvania where groups hopes to quash unions

By | 03.28.11 | 3:38 pm

Breaking away from their fiscal policy roots, tea party groups lately have been sinking their hooks into all matters of American policy, from collective bargaining rights to education.

On Tuesday, a number of tea party organizations are gathering at a FreedomWorks “Restoring America Summit and Rally” at Pittsburgh International More…

FreedomWorks adds fire to DeMint’s earmark crusade

By | 11.11.10 | 2:28 pm

Via Dave Weigel, FreedomWorks (which he terms the ”most media-savvy of the Tea Party groups”) is stepping up its own efforts to pressure Republican senators to vote for Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.) plan to place a two-year moratorium on requesting earmarks. From a letter to members sent by FreedomWorks’ Dick More…

Tea Party leadership begins applying primary pressure early

By | 11.05.10 | 10:21 am

Whether the Tea Party rank-and-file decide to get on board remains an open question, but conservative figures like Dick Armey, the former Republican majority leader who now chairs FreedomWorks, and Erick Erickson, managing editor of the blog RedState, are already excited about the prospect of directing Tea Party outrage toward More…

Video: Can There Be a Populist Conservatism?

By | 06.16.10 | 4:13 pm

Today, the Hudson Institute and the Bradley Symposium hosted a number of leading conservative thinkers, who weighed in on the question: Can there be a populist conservatism? Here’s what Jonah Goldberg, Dick Armey, Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) and Michael Barone had to say:

Dick Armey Backs Lawsuits Against Health Care Reform

By | 03.23.10 | 4:28 pm

File this in the “unsurprising news” category, but today the president of FreedomWorks — who’s still part of a lawsuit against Medicare — backed the effort to repeal health care reform in the courts in an interview with blogger Ed Morrissey. Armey endorsed the lawsuit filed at noon by More…

Nervous Tea Partiers See Possible Democratic Win on Health Care

By | 03.17.10 | 6:00 am

“Might as well not even be here,” grumbled Georgia Holliday. “I can’t believe that Dick Armey screwed up like this!”

Holliday was not alone. Having traveled into the city from the suburbs for the 10 a.m. “Code Red” rally on the Capitol grounds, More…

Tea Party Patriots Poll: Up to 57 Million Conservative Activists in U.S.

By | 02.24.10 | 9:53 am

Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is at the helm of a new conservative group called Liberty Central. Its first project is a poll, conducted with Tea Party Patriots, analyzing just how many current and potential conservative activists there are in the United States, and figuring More…