For Immediate Release – Dec. 3, 2009                                         
Contact: Jeff Crank, Colorado State Director, (719) 332-8644

Americans for Prosperity Goes Global With Hot Air Tour

Coloradans View ‘LIVE from Copenhagen’ Webcast to Combat U.N. Conference’s Energy-Rationing Agenda

-AFP Colorado will watch LIVE Dec. 9 Webcast from Copenhagen Climate Conference-

COLORADO SPRINGS – Americans for Prosperity will go international with its Hot Air Tour, which has exposed the “ballooning” cost of global warming alarmism across the United States, on Wednesday, December 9th. AFP President Tim Phillips and Policy Director Phil Kerpen will broadcast LIVE from Copenhagen to report on the U.N. Climate Change Conference the same day President Obama is attending.

Grassroots activists in Colorado will join AFP allies in Copenhagen over the Internet as they gather together to view the LIVE Webcast in their home state.

“President Obama has said he will promise massive cuts in U.S. carbon emissions at this conference, and that would mean massive tax hikes on American families,” said Tim Phillips, president of AFP. “Bowing to international ‘green’ pressure would increase economic hardship for taxpayers trying to heat their homes and drive to work. The last thing we should be doing is punishing working families and killing jobs.”

AFP’s more than 75 Hot Air Tour events thus far, complete with a hot air balloon, have focused on congressional attempts to tax and ration Americans’ energy usage in the name of global warming. Now, AFP goes abroad to “U.N.-mask international global warming alarmism.”

Coloradans can watch the Webcast LIVE in their homes or attend the mass viewing in Colorado Springs. For a listing of other states hosting a viewing event, please visit http://americansforprosperity.org/120209-hot-air-tour-live-copenhagen

Event Details:

Hot Air Tour: LIVE from Copenhagen— and Colorado Springs
Webcast Viewing Event

Colorado Springs: Noon-2 p.m. local time
*On-Site Speakers: Jeff Crank, Colorado State Director, Americans for Prosperity
Former Congressman Bob Beauprez                                 
Richard Randall, KVOR Talk Show Host
                                                                    
The Event Center at Mr. Biggs
North Entrance of Building
5825 Mark Dabling Boulevard

Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is a nationwide organization of citizen leaders 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. AFP has more than 800,000 members, including members in all 50 states, and 25 state chapters. More than 55,000 Americans in all 50 states have made a financial investment in AFP or AFP Foundation. For more information, visit www.americansforprosperity.org

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