AFP National Neighborhood Canvassing Day II

Dear Friend,

Our National Neighborhood Canvassing Day on October 2nd was a great success in Ohio. We spread the word to about 3,600 households about their elected official’s big government votes. Even more activists volunteered to spread the word through their communities last week at our November Is Coming bus tour stops.

We have great momentum going, and we have to keep it up, so that everyone knows how their elected officials have been voting. Please join us again this Saturday for another neighborhood canvassing day. Please check out the locations below to find out where you can pick up neighborhood walking maps and literature to distribute in your community.

CINCINNATI -
(to get the word out that Steve Driehaus’s votes are bankrupting America)

When: this Saturday, Oct. 16, pick up walking lists between 9:00am and 11:00am and meet back for pizza around 12:00pm

Where: Pick up walking lists at Clippard Instruments parking lot, 7390 Colerain Avenue, near Banning & Colerain Ave. next to the Sunoco station, and then meet back for pizza at White Oak LaRosa’s, 5800 Cheviot Road in the White Oak Shopping Center.

ST. CLAIRSVILLE -
(to get the word out that Charlie Wilson’s and Zack Space’s votes are bankrupting America)

When: this Saturday, Oct. 16, 10:00am
Where: Sippers Cafe, 165 East Main Street

GREATER CLEVELAND AREA -
(to get the word out that Betty Sutton’s votes are bankrupting America)

When: this Saturday, Oct. 16, 9:00am
Where: The Courtyard Cafe, Brecksville Shopping Center, 7600 Chippewa Road (route 82), Brecksville, Ohio 44141 (just east of the intersection of routes 82 and 21, map)

ASHLAND -
(to get the word out that John Boccieri’s votes are bankrupting America)

When: this Saturday, Oct. 16, 12:15pm
Where: Commissioners Park, on the corner of Main Street and Claremont Avenue

BAINBRIDGE -
(to get the word out that Zack Space’s votes are bankrupting America)

When: this Saturday, 10am to 7pm
Where: Ohio’s First Capitol Tea Party Booth at the Fall Festival of Leaves in Bainbridge, 200 North Maple, Bainbridge, Ohio, 45601 (you can pick up walk maps and literature this Friday and Sunday too

COLUMBUS (meeting this Sunday, instead of Saturday) -
(to get the word out that Mary Jo Kilroy’s votes are bankrupting America)

President Obama will be at the Oval at OSU this Sunday evening, October 17th. Americans for Prosperity will be joining Young Americans for Liberty and the Columbus Tea Party in showing opposition for President Obama’s big government agenda. We will be announcing the meeting time and location in the next couple of days. Please join us this Sunday in opposing President Obama’s agenda and pick up neighborhood walking lists and literature.

Thank you,

Rebecca Heimlich
Ohio State Director
Americans for Prosperity

Cleveland Tea Party Patriots 2010 Voter Guide

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EPA Lays Out Five-Year Plan on Agency Priorities

From the EPA -- (or ADA -- American Destruction Agency)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued its fiscal year (FY) 2011 to 2015 strategic plan, which provides a blueprint for advancing EPA’s mission and Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s priorities.

This plan presents five strategic goals for advancing the agency’s environmental and human-health mission, accompanied by five cross-cutting fundamental strategies that seek to adapt the EPA’s work inside and outside of the agency to meet the growing environmental protection needs of the day. The plan will guide the agency to foster a renewed commitment to new possibilities for achieving the vision of a cleaner, greener, and more sustainable environment.

The five-year plan includes new benchmarks that track progress against Administrator Jackson’s seven priorities such as taking action to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and adapt to climate change, protecting America’s waters, increasing the use of smart growth and sustainable development strategies in communities, building and maintaining strong state and tribal partnerships, working for environmental justice, and ensuring that chemical health and safety information is available to the public.

The five strategic goals for advancing the agency’s environmental and human-health mission are:

• Taking action on climate change and improving air quality
• Protecting America’s waters
• Cleaning up communities and advancing sustainable development
• Ensuring the safety of chemicals and preventing pollution
• Enforcing environmental laws

The Administrator has committed the agency to pursuing these priorities in the years ahead to fulfill EPA’s mission to protect human health and the environment. In addressing these priorities, EPA will continue to affirm the core values of science, transparency and the rule of law. The agency sent notification letters to more than 800 organizations and individuals requesting comment on the draft plan.

Congress requires all federal agencies to develop a strategic plan covering a five year period, which is updated every three years. EPA developed the FY 2011-2015 strategic plan after receiving extensive comments from stakeholders and the public. The plan is prepared in accordance with the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993.

More information on the strategic plan: http://www.epa.gov/ocfo/plan/plan.htm  

Make a difference from your home this Saturday- National Freedom Phone-a-thon Day

Make a difference from your home this Saturday by making calls on our “Freedom Phoner” system telling others about Ohio Congress members who have voted for Nancy Pelosi’s big government programs. We need to get the word out about politicians who have voted for job and liberty killing legislation.

You can make these calls from your home any day, but this Saturday, October 9, is National Freedom Phone-A-Thon Day. Your home phone number will not show up on caller ID and you will not have any charges to your home phone.

With over 7,000 calls already pledged for Saturday, we are off to a great start, but we need more and that’s where you come in. By committing to 25, 50, or even 250 calls this Saturday we will be able to reach even more of your neighbors and friends.

Click here now to make a pledge. If you can’t make calls this Saturday, please sign-up for our system and make calls when it is convenient for you. Click here to sign up.

Also, don’t forget about our National Contest for the top Freedom Phoners!

Top 5 Phone Bankers can choose between one of the three awards below:

• Trip for one to Cancun, Mexico, for AFP’s Hot Air Tour event at the UN conference on Climate Change. 
• Scholarship for two to the national Summit in DC - Fall 2011 
• Scholarship for two to RightOnline in Minneapolis, MN – June 2011

Next Top 5-10 Phone Bankers will receive:

• $250 Visa Gift Card

Next Top 11-15 Phone Bankers will receive:

• $100 Visa Gift Card

If you’re having any problems please visit the Freedom Phone Page which includes a tutorial on how to use the system, a FAQs link, and more information on the National Contest Rules. You can also call 866-730-0150 for technical help.

We are in the final stretch and need to make sure that everyone is well educated about the votes of big government politicians in Ohio.

Thank you,

Rebecca Heimlich
Ohio State Director
Americans for Prosperity

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Kucinich Wants to Cut Funding for our Troops in Afghanistan

The former boy Mayor of Cleveland who wanted to be President wants to cut funding for our troops in Afghanistan....

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who previously forced a vote in the House to stop the war in Afghanistan from spilling over the border into Pakistan, today renewed his calls for Congress to explicitly cut off funding in the region after the Associated Press (AP) reported that North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) helicopters attacked Pakistani troops at a border crossing. The Pakistani troops, who were in uniforms similar to the local civilian population, are among the same troops being trained by the United States. According to the AP, they were ordered to stop supply trucks attempting to cross the Torkham border post.

“NATO troops have attacked Pakistan, attacked an ally for the simple offense of refusing NATO forces to expand the war into their sovereign nation,” said Kucinich. “Last night, in the middle of the night, Congress passed a Continuing Resolution that included Pakistan counterinsurgency funds. Those funds are for our troops to operate in Pakistan, and to train Pakistan’s military and Pakistan’s Frontier Corps. We are killing the same troops we claim to be helping.

“We cannot afford to continue the status quo in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq. Our counterinsurgency strategy places our troops and our national security in great peril. The truth is that we cannot afford these wars. We cannot afford an open-ended commitment to wars that have done nothing to further our security or moral standing in the world. The American people cannot afford to have Congress allocate vital resources under the façade of nation-building overseas, especially while people here at home have such urgent unmet economic needs. Congress must take its Congressional responsibility seriously. We have not declared war on Pakistan and we must cut off military funding immediately,” said Kucinich.

Knowing Kucinich has no problem selling out our troops in harms way, should we have been surprised when he flip-flopped and voted for the Heatlh Care bill selling out the people in District 10 for a bag of peanuts and a ride on Air Force One?

Kucinich is facing Peter J. Corrigan in his bid for reelection. 

Will OH House Candidate Kelli Perk be charged in Cuyahoga County Corruption Probe?

While Kelli Perk claims she was only playing by the rules -- one has to wonder exactly "what" rules Perk played by and if they were legal.


From The Plain Dealer --

A lawyer in Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason's office was hired three weeks after she withdrew from a Parma judicial race in 2007, clearing the path to public office for the candidate Mason supported.

Mason gave a job to Kelli Perk weeks after she dropped out as a candidate for Parma municipal judge. Perk, who works as an assistant county prosecutor in Mason's civil division, said nobody ever asked her to drop out of the contest. A spokesman for Mason said in a written statement that Perk was hired based on her job qualifications.

"In my heart and mind, I did everything for the right reasons," Perk said in a telephone interview. "I played by the rules."

A timeline of the Perk's interactions with Mason's office, gleaned from public records, has raised questions from a Republican lawmaker about whether Mason used his influence to shape the 2007 race for Parma Municipal Court judge. If so, it would resemble at least two similar cases involving other officials that are detailed in the federal probe of Cuyahoga County government corruption.

Perk, 47, is running this November for a seat in the Ohio House of Representatives against Republican Walton Hills Mayor Marlene Anielski. State Rep. Josh Mandel, who is running for state treasurer, currently represents the cluster of suburbs that make up the House district. More...

The right reasons in your heart & mind?  Maybe Joseph Gallucci, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit bribery for doing the same thing Perk & Mason have done during his bid for Cuyahoga County Auditor in 2006, should have used the same excuse.