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Americans for Prosperity - Defending the American Dream Summit Day 1 Recap

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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.
    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