For Immediate Release – June 9, 2008
Contact: Annie Patnaude (202) 441-5193 or annie@afphq.org

Event to Educate Citizens on Impact of Global Warming Policies

SPARTANBURG – The taxpayer watchdog group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) will bring its nationwide hot air balloon tour to Spartanburg on Tuesday, June 17, for an event in Barnet Park. Even as record gas prices and high food costs put a squeeze on household budgets, lawmakers are pushing global warming policies that are out of touch with average Americans. The event is free and open to media and the public. Those planning to attend are encouraged to pre-register online at http://www.costofhotair.com/.

“These are uncertain economic times. It is foolhardy for lawmakers to push for regulations that would transfer dollars from families and businesses to bureaucratic big-government,” said AFP President Tim Phillips. “We want to make sure citizens know what global warming alarmism will cost them – higher taxes, lost jobs, and less freedom.”
 
The event will feature a presentation from Phillips and other speakers about the policies being promoted in the name of “fighting” global warming and the impact of those policies on South Carolina. The event will have a strong visual component, most notably AFP’s enormous seventy-foot hot air balloon with the message: Global Warming Alarmism: Lost Jobs, Higher Taxes, Less Freedom. 

WHO: Americans for Prosperity. Contact Annie Patnaude for more information, (202) 441-5193

WHAT: Presentation with a 70-foot-tall hot air balloon. At this citizen event food will be served and tethered hot air balloon rides will be provided (weather permitting). The entire event is free, but citizens are encouraged to register online at http://www.costofhotair.com/ or by phone to (202) 349-5880.

WHEN: 5:30 p.m.; Tuesday, June 17

WHERE: Barnet Park, 248 E Saint John St., Spartanburg, SC, 29302

From June 17 to June 21, the second leg of AFP’s Hot Air Tour will make stops in Spartanburg, S.C. Savannah, Ga., Jacksonville, Fla., Marietta, Ga., Birmingham, Ala., Nashville, Tenn., and Cincinnati, Ohio. The Tour, which was launched on April 21 in Washington, DC, will hold events in a total of at least two-dozen key locations around the country. AFP’s Hot Air Tour has already educated hundreds of citizens with stops last month in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana.

Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is the nation’s premier grassroots organization committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP believes reducing the size and scope of government is the best safeguard to ensuring individual productivity and prosperity for all Americans. AFP educates and engages citizens in support of restraining state and federal government growth, and returning government to its constitutional limits. For more information, visit http://www.americansforprosperity.org//

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