Making An Impact: Citizen Watchdog Training

Friday, December 23rd 2011
by Karla Kay Edwards
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Come to a Citizen Watchdog training session in Salem, and learn how to identify inconsistencies and half-truths in government, and expose them for the lies they are.

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AFP-Montana Co-Sponsoring Leadership Institute “Grassroots Activist School” in Bozeman

Tuesday, December 6th 2011
by Henry Kriegel
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Americans for Prosperity-Montana is co-sponsoring the Leadership Institute's Grassroots Activist Training School scheduled on January 28-29, 2012 at the Best Western GranTree in Bozeman. This exceptional training event is being brought to by a coalition of pro-freedom organizations including the Montana Tea Party Coalition and the Bozeman Tea Party who are who are organizing the event, and the Tea Party Patriots who are also co-sponsors. “These organizations are coming together to bring Montanans the best training possible,” said Henry Kriegel, Grassroots Coordinator for AFP-Montana. “These skills along with our passion and love of freedom will help make us an unstoppable force in support of our common principles of free markets, fiscal accountability and limited government.”
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Sen. Karpisek's LB 1076 Would Limit Public Input

Thursday, January 19th 2012
by BradStevens
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As Nebraskans, we pride ourselves on being open-minded, willing to hear the other side of the argument.

That is why we are concerned with Sen. Russ Karpisek's LB 1076, legislation that would empower government officials to block the public from testifying before government boards and councils.

Sen. Karpisek is viewing this issue from the eyes of a legislator - someone who sits through hours and hours of public testimony during his service in the Legislature. And let's be honest, there's a reason not many people watch C-SPAN or public access television. Admittedly, the testimony can be dry, monotonous and often the testifiers themselves can be 'regulars'.

Yet, public servants must avail themselves to the public. Legislators cannot limit public input because they find that input to be stodgy, boring, repetitive or uncomfortable.

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