Via National Review Online:

In the next few days, President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency is expected to issue another final regulation directed at electricity utilities. This rule, known as the Utility MACT, will impose an estimated $11 billion each year in new costs on our economy. It will threaten electricity-generating capacity in many parts of the country. And it’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to this administration’s runaway rulemaking.

I’m often asked when I’m home in Michigan why the House of Representatives has been so active this year passing legislation related to environment and energy rules.

The answer is simple. The Obama administration forced our hand with a regulatory approach that threatens to destroy jobs and drive up costs for families.

Americans for Prosperity - Virginia (AFP-VA) needs you to help us stand up for a local Virginia business and its workers against Greenpeace's radical agenda.

Click here to take action today!

Their latest campaign against Wal-Mart, Target, Kroger, Kmart, Sam's Club, Safeway and Costco is aimed at putting Virginia-based Mercury Paper Inc., an American supplier of low-cost paper products such as Oasis Branded toilet paper, out of business. This effort threatens jobs and economic growth in Virginia at a time when we can ill afford to turn our backs on new job creation.

Americans for Prosperity – Virginia (AFP-VA) has expressed its firm opposition to this campaign by Greenpeace and the impact it will have on workers and consumers. But we need your help today.

Americans have tightened their belts, so should Washington!

For decades, Washington has continued to borrow and spend at a pace that is not sustainable. Washington is borrowing nearly 40 cents of every dollar we spend and the US debt is now the same size as our entire economy.

You and I understand that our families could not survive borrowing at the same rate, but Washington continues to use the same budgeting gimmicks and accounting tricks to hide our financial crisis.

That’s why Americans for Prosperity-Virginia is pleased to announce our Cut Spending Now! Tour, which will be rolling through Roanoke and Fredericksburg on Tuesday, October 25, 2011.

Roanoke Event

Who: Hard-working, concerned citizens such as YOURSELF!
What: Cut Spending Now Tour rally and lunch
Where: Fallon Park, Roanoke – 2150 Dale Avenue (Elm Ave turns into Dale, park on left)
When: Tuesday, October 25th at 12 noon