Aug 8 in Scottsdale--Photo by Shane Wikfors

Dear Arizona Taxpayers and Tea Partiers:

AFP Arizona extends a huge THANK YOU to all of the grassroots activists across the state who came out last Saturday to rally against HR 3200, the Obama-Pelosi health care “reform” legislation. Below are video and photos from the Scottsdale and Tucson protests, as well as other useful links for activists. We will post photos and video links from other Code Blue tea parties, as they become available, at www.aztaxpayers.org.

1) Video and Photos from the Scottsdale Protest, August 8
2) Video from the Tucson Protest, August 8
3) How to Fight for Health Care Freedom
4) Bonus Video Link

1) Scottsdale—Protest at Harry Mitchell’s Office

The East Valley Tribune had a great write-up of the protest outside of Harry Mitchell’s office on Saturday--be sure to click on the link to the slide show:
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/142751

Shane Wikfors of Sonoran Alliance has posted a lot of short video interviews featuring some of the “astroturfers” and “mobsters” who showed up at Mitchell’s office:
http://sonoranalliance.com/?p=4728

Sonoran Alliance also has video from John Shadegg’s town hall on Saturday:
http://sonoranalliance.com/?p=4740

The Sonoran Alliance photo collection is here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/sonoranalliance/TownHallProtests?feat=email#

Austin Hill of the 9-12 Project Arizona interviewed protesters at the Mitchell protest, to make sure they were real grassroots activists, not astroturfers:
http://www.arizonawebtv.com/ (link to rally video on right side)

In this YouTube video, activist Greg Wirth has repackaged Channel 12’s coverage of the protest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUerfz2eN2c

Here is a video posted at the Club for Growth website:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Jl3y804dY

And thanks to Dolores Testerman, who created a YouTube movie featuring photos from the Mitchell protest and the Shadegg town hall:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_S8HK06lT4

2) Tucson—Protest at Gabrielle Giffords’ Office

The Tucson rally on August 8th outside of Gabrielle Giffords’ office at Swan and Pima attracted around 200 people, and is captured in a great video montage called “I am the Mob,” by blogger Mike Shaw from ShortForOrdinary.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2ZJGSzhnCI

Shaw has also posted much of the speech by Jon Justice of the Tucson Tea Party at Congresswoman Giffords’ no-show in downtown Tucson on August 6th:
http://shortforordinary.com/?p=8

Here is a long URL for KGUN 9’s news story about the August 8th rally at Giffords’ office:
http://www.kgun9.com/global/Category.asp?c=172043&clipId=4027106&flvUri=http://flash.video.worldnow.com/kgun/KGUN_200908081657015602_5991592.flv&topVideoCatNo=0&autoStart=true&activePane=info&LaunchPageAdTag=homepage&clipFormat=flv

3) How to Fight for Health Care Freedom

If this email was forwarded this email to you, and you would like to join the fight for market-based health care reforms and against socialized medicine, sign up at this website:
http://www.joinpatientsfirst.com

To get on AFP Arizona’s alert list for federal, state, and local tax and budget issues, send an email to tjenney@afphq.org. It helps us to have your name, city, and zip code (or your state legislative district, if you know it).

4) Bonus for Getting to the Bottom of this Post

This segment from John Stossel of ABC 20/20 may be the best 6.5 minutes I’ve ever seen on the dangers of single-payer government-run health care, which is what we’ll end up with if HR 3200’s public option is instituted and then allowed to crowd out private insurance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9GMKK_fWKg

For Liberty,

--Tom

Tom Jenney
Arizona Director
Americans for Prosperity
(Arizona Federation of Taxpayers)
www.aztaxpayers.org
tjenney@afphq.org
(602) 478-0146