NoStimulus.com – Sign the Petition! (Update – Nearly 500,000 signatures, but our Government isn’t listening.)

UPDATE 02/15/09: Nearly 500,000 signatures, but our Government isn’t listening. The so-called “Stimulus” Bill has passed the House and Senate and is awaiting the President’s signature.

UPDATE 02/10/09: NoStimulus.com Effort Crosses 200,000 Petitions! Taxpayer Outrage Intensifies

“This is an avalanche of public opinion, and members of Congress ignore it at their own peril.” –AFP President Tim Phillips

WASHINGTON─ While the US Senate chose to ignore its constituents and vote in favor of a trillion dollars of debt yesterday, more than 100,000 American taxpayers expected to foot the bill signed Americans for Prosperity’s NoStimulus online petition, doubling the number in one day and bringing the count over 200,000.

“Americans now have an outlet to express their views on the stimulus plan going through Congress and it’s called the NoStimulus.com petition, and boy are they using using. The growing citizen outrage against this spending nightmare has brought out the voices in many Americans and they’re no giving up,” said Stuart Jolly, state director of Americans for Prosperity for Oklahoma. “In fact, we doubled the number of petition signers in one day to over 200,000.”

The amended bill will now go back to the House for a vote, giving taxpayers more time to examine its contents and voice concern to their legislators. If even one member of Congress changes positions, the stimulus ‘compromise’ will quickly be compromised.

“Despite the outcome of this first test vote, this bill is far from a done deal,” said Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity. “The American people are so angry that they flooded our NoStimulus.com web site off the Internet as we rushed to add more servers all day yesterday. Millions of people tried to reach the site. This is an avalanche of public opinion, and members of Congress ignore it at their own peril.”

AFP launched NoStimulus.com, a website and online petition against the Pelosi/Reid/Obama spending package, with much success three weeks ago, collecting over 200,000 signatures to date and receiving national media coverage.

More than 50,000 of those petitions were delivered to Senate offices last week during debate on the bill and more will be delivered later this week. AFP continues to drive citizens to the NoStimulus petition and urges them to contact their legislators, flooding Capitol Hill with overwhelming constituent opposition.

The complete website and online petition can be viewed at www.nostimulus.com.

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UPDATE 02/09/09: Good morning fellow WebWarriors, and welcome to all of you who are visiting Ft. Hard Knox for the first time, looking for the NoStimulus Petition. We are aware that due to the number of people who are wanting to sign the petition, the American’s for Prosperity site is having trouble handling the traffic. We are also having trouble handling the traffic overflow.

While we appreciate your frustration, and share your anger over the so-called “stimulus” legislation, we encourage you to direct that anger toward the Congress Critters who are considering signing the Stimulus Bill into law. Posting ugly comments, and sending angry e-mails to the administrators of the website gathering your signatures, or the adminIstrators of sites linking to the petition is just silly. Don’t be silly.

Thank you.

Jenn

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ORIGINAL POST: 02/06/09: From Lt. Col. (Retired) Stuart Jolly, State Director for the Oklahoma Chapter of Americans for Prosperity

I wanted to give you an opportunity to make a difference…today! Please send a message to our US Senate that you don’t want them spending your inheritance…nor your kid’s inheritance by passing the so-called stimulus plan. We want to send a message that we care. So far over 60,000 people from around the country have logged on to www.NoStimulus.com and cast their vote against this bill. Rush Limbaugh talked about it on air a couple of days ago and the number of people signing the petition crashed our site twice. It’s up now, so please sign the petition. People care and you should too.

Think about this: If you spent 1 million dollars A DAY since Jesus Christ was born, it still would not add up to the amount of this stimulus! And we’re not even sure what it is we’re stimulating since so much of it is pork and going to things that does not help our economy. Much of it is going to bail out bad business practices. It’s a temporary boost of cash if anything and a short term financial bandaid. Where’s the long term view of stimulating growth and prosperity in this bill? Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) calls it a “skunk!”

This is an issue you need to take action on. Go to www.NoStimulus.com and sign the petition TODAY! The list of nearly 100,000 names will be delivered to the Senate this weekend. Sign it today…it only takes about 10 seconds!

And PLEASE send it to all your friends and get them to sign it. We only have today and tomorrow to take action. We’re hoping the vote gets pushed to Monday but it doesn’t look like it will. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) wants a vote now, because he knows that if he waits we’ll defeat it.

…Thank you for taking action!!

Also see: AFP Statement from January 29, 2009

APF Dream Summit – Rally Today in Washington D.C.. (Updated #AFP08)

UPDATE: Bob Weeks, of Wichita Liberty, has better photos, here.

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UPDATE: I just returned from the Defending the American Dream Summit, at the Nation’s Capitol in Washington, D.C.. The weather was gorgeous, the view amazing, and the crowd riled-up. Tim Phillips of Washington, D.C., Dallas Woodhouse of South Carolina, Peggy Venable of Texas, Peter Foy of California, and Steve Lonegan of New Jersey all gave rousing speeches to the theme of, No, Nancy Pelosi, the free market didn’t cause the mortage crisis – it was government interference in the free market that caused this crisis.

Inspiring a round of “Drill, baby, Drill!” chants, Peggy Venable said,

Government is not responsible for the American Dream; we are…Government is not the answer; we are!

Steve Lonegan said that he has never seen our principles under attack like they are now, and started the crowd of about 1,000 chanting enthusiastically, “No new taxes! No new taxes!

As soon as I got back to the beautiful Crystal Gateway Marriott and turned on FoxNews, I saw the rally on Neal Cavuto’s Common Sense program. Hopefully, more media outlets will report on this report, and our legislators will get the message.

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ORIGINAL POST: I’ll be attending the rally this afternoon at the Capitol in D.C.. If anyone’s in the D.C. area, I encourage you to join us. For more information, go to Defending the Dream.

1,000 to Rally in Defense of Free-Market Principles at U.S. Capitol, Oct. 10

Amidst Market Unrest, Americans for Prosperity Gathers Citizens to Protest Big-Government Power Grab

WASHINGTON – About 1,000 citizens will gather in front of the U.S. Capitol on Friday to participate in a free-market call to arms by the grassroots group Americans for Prosperity (AFP). Amidst market uncertainty, and just weeks away from a crucial election, the crowd of citizens from 38 states around the nation will protest a looming big-government power grab and rally to the defense of free-market, limited government principles. The rally will kick-off at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, October 10, in front of the Capitol reflecting pool at the Grant Memorial.

AFP President Tim Phillips said:

“Big-government supporters are on the attack – the free market and our American way of life are the targets. This rally is a call to arms for those who believe government is the problem, not a solution. The one-thousand citizens who will rally in front of the U.S. Capitol represent millions more Americans across the country who believe in free-market principles.

“We are standing together to send a powerful message that free markets and pro-growth economic policies deliver the American Dream. Class warfare attacks are camouflage for a far-left, big-government agenda that will shut down our economic engines. Our rally will send a compelling reminder to lawmakers of the belief in more limited government, low taxes, and less spending, shared by millions of Americans.”

Even as candidates and elected officials are busy blaming economic uncertainty on Wall Street “greed” and deregulation, the rally is part of AFP’s grassroots campaign to expose government policies that have ushered in market unrest and promote free-market solutions. The citizens participating in the Capitol Hill rally will also attend AFP Foundation’s October 10-11 Defending the American Dream Summit at the Marriott Crystal Gateway – the nation’s largest gathering of free-market conservatives committed to changing the policy landscape on issues such as taxes, spending, and unfettered markets. Americans for Prosperity is a co-sponsor of the Summit. Visit www.DefendingtheDream.org for a full agenda.

The Truth Exposed: MoveOn Supporters Want $10, $20, $30 Gas!

Americans for Prosperity crashed a recent MoveOn.org rally at the U.S. Capitol, where lots of people wearing Obama t-shirts and buttons called for $10, $20, and even $30 gas.