Submitted by rmiddle on Sat, 2009/10/03 - 10:35am
I attended the AFP summit this weekend. Here is a running down of Day One.
9:00 AM. It started out in the morning with some great training covers topics like blogging, Press Releases, Organising groups, building collations, etc. Lots of great training and information a good start to what I am sure is going to be a great weekend.
2:00 PM Capitol Hill Town Hall and News Conference.
- Heard from Congressman Bob Goodlatte of Virginia.
- Heard from Congressman Patrick McHenry of North Carolina.
- Heard from Tracy Walsh, Breast Cancer Survivor because she was able to come to the US and escape the Canada's Government Health Care System.
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A few facts about HR 3200!
- Would create 53 new government agencies and programs
- 1100+ pages
- No one include most senator's haven't read the bill.
7:00 PM "Tribute to Ronald Reagan" Dinner.
- Topic of the night is health care.
- Laura Ingraham Spook cover what she is doing to stop the monster know as health care reform.
- Congressman Mile Pence was a great and inspiring speaker.
- Dr. Jim Miller, former Reagan Budget Director
- Art Pop, Americans for Prosperity Chairman
