State Representatives Carl Isett (R-Lubbock), Ken Paxton (R-McKinney) and Sen. Dan Patrick (R-Houston) all each received A-Plus grades in a newly-released taxpayers' legislative report card. This is the second year Americans for Prosperity-Texas has rated legislative votes and issued the taxpayers' legislative report cards.

RALEIGH- The grassroots free-market group Americans for Prosperity-North Carolina, along with opponents of forced municipal annexation, today announced the filing of a historic federal lawsuit that seeks to halt the planned "hostile takeover" of the Moore County community of Pinewild by the near-by resort village of Pinehurst.The lawsuit is filed on behalf of more than 600 Pinewild residents.

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PHOENIX— At the Arizona Republican Party's mandatory meeting today, state committeemen voted overwhelmingly to support legislative referendum bills that would allow voters in November to lower the state's constitutional spending limit and institute a ban on taxpayer-funded lobbying. Both bills are championed by the Arizona Federation of Taxpayers, a state chapter of Americans for Prosperity.