Announcing Family and Student Rates for the

Defending the American Dream Summit on Saturday, May 3rd

Students - $15

Families - $60

Registration price includes morning coffee break and hot lunch buffet.

Location: 755 Club at Turner Field

Time: 10AM-2PM, Saturday, May 3rd

Doors open at 9:15 AM for registration with coffee and baked goods.

Catch the ball game that night! Click here to find how to get free Braves tickets.

Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel is our newest confirmed speaker! For current list of confirmed speakers, click here.  

AFP-GA Applauds Four Congressmen for Signing the No More Earmarks Pledge

Congressmen Tom Price, Lynn Westmoreland, Nathan Deal, and Paul Broun have signed the “no earmarks” pledge.

Standing Against Earmarks will take Politics out of Spending

The following op-ed by State Director Jared Thomas appeared in the Athens Banner- Herald this week:

"Competition is an American ideal. It creates incentives for self-improvement and delivers low-cost, high-quality goods for consumers. For taxpayers, competition means we're getting the very best bang for our tax buck - and with story after story of corruption and waste in government, that's worth being thankful for.

With the deadline for House earmark appropriations requests fast approaching, earmark-hungry lobbyists may not be pleased with Georgia Congressman Paul Broun's decision, along with three other Republican members of the state's congressional delegation, to forgo earmarks this year, but overburdened taxpayers are grateful. Instead of tax dollars being doled out behind closed doors based on factors like money, power, prestige and lobbying, Broun's decision gives momentum to the idea that our money should be distributed through the competitive grant-making process based on merit.

Georgians might ask why we can't just weed out the truly ugly earmarks - the Bridges to Nowhere and the Teapot Museums - but the truth of the matter is that the ugly earmarks aren't the only problem. In fact, earmarks are questionable spending almost by definition, pet projects selected for federal funding by individual lawmakers that bypass budgetary checks and balances as well as competition. That means earmarks should be used sparingly, only when they are truly needed, but in reality lawmakers do just the opposite.  Read the rest here.