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Press Releases
September 3rd, 2010
The American Conservative Union & Anita MonCrief – ACORN Whistleblower – have joined forces to track ACORN during this most important 2010 Election Season but we need your help.
VISIT www.acuACORNaction.com and familiarize yourself with the new organizations and the past leaders of ACORN.
LISTEN to Anita MonCrief – ACORN Whistleblower – on the Sean Hannity Radio Show on 77WABC this Friday afternoon September 3, 2010 at 4:05pm to hear the latest news regarding ACORN.
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September 1st, 2010
At a time when the number one issue for the American people is jobs and the economy, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Obama oil drilling moratorium alone will cause a loss of 23,000 jobs. That is why the American Conservative Union is partnering with the American Petroleum Institute in order to protect domestic job growth.
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August 31st, 2010
At a time when the number one issue for the American people is jobs and the economy, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Obama oil drilling moratorium alone will cause a loss of 23,000 jobs. That is why the American Conservative Union is partnering with the American Petroleum Institute in order to protect domestic job growth.
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August 4th, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: AUGUST 4, 2010
CONTACT: BRENT LITTLEFIELD 703-836-8602
ACU Launches New Major Project to Track and Expose Former ACORN Leaders and Spin-Offs
The American Conservative Union will notify Members of Congress of potential groups seeking funding
ALEXANDRIA, VA – The American Conservative Union today launched a new major project months in the making – ACU ACORN ACTION.
With a new website at www.ACUAcornAction.com members of the largest and oldest conservative group in America and concerned citizens can track the former leaders of ACORN, follow their activities, and expose new spin offs which may seek taxpayer funding.
“It is clear that ACORN is not dead; it is merely playing dead,” said David Keene, Chairman of the American Conservative Union. “There are reports from across America that ACORN is simply changing names and taking on new logos in an effort to cover up its activities and potentially come back to the taxpayer trough to seek funding. We are going to track and expose their leaders and new organizations.”
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July 27th, 2010
Liberal former Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-NY), the very man who was responsible for writing our nation’s tax laws, is trying to avoid owning up for the fact he wasn’t paying his personal taxes while you and I were forced to pay the taxes he supported as the liberal Congressman from New York.
After decades in the House supporting liberal tax and spending schemes he thinks he can get away with it, despite the fact that last Thursday the House Ethics Committee officially took action to put him through a corruption trial before the House, the first in nearly a decade.
Late today word is leaking out that he is seeking a deal to stay in the House and avoid a full trial.
That’s right, Rangel is “seeking a deal.”
The New York Daily News reports that right now there are closed-door talks happening within Democrat offices on whether Rangel will accept a “wrist-slap deal” to avoid prosecution.
A “wrist slap deal.”
ACU is calling on members and concerned citizens across America to join together in a petition urging Rangel to resign immediately and calling for all Members of the U.S. House to join us in calling for his resignation.
We urge you to sign the petition here: https://secure.piryx.com/donate/QA6ze1mv/ACU/RangelResign
July 23rd, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, July 23, 2010
CONTACT: Brent Littlefield 703-836-8602
Alexandria, VA – David Keene, Chairman of the American Conservative Union, issued the following statement today after the White House was forced to revise their budget deficit forecast noting the record deficit of $1.4 trillion will be even higher moving forward in 2010 and 2011:
“Obama, Pelosi and Reid have already tripled the budget deficit in just one year and now the White House admits that it will continue to soar through 2010 and 2011. This is essentially an admission that government spending is completely out of control even as continued high unemployment figures prove it is doing no good. Big government spending will not improve the economy; it has and will only dig us into a deeper hole which could ultimately jeopardize the standard of living of generations yet unborn.
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July 21st, 2010
The President has done something I almost cannot believe.
I am sured you heard Barack Obama has sued the state of Arizona over a law the state’s own elected lawmakers passed.
Just think about it… in suing the state of Arizona over their tough immigration law, Obama is in essence using trial lawyers to coerce other elected officials into doing his own bidding.
It is Chicago style politics at its finest. If you can’t get people to do what you want behind closed doors with arm twisting threaten them with a lawsuit.
Our borders are porous, illegal aliens are streaming in and yet our federal government will not do what is needed to stop it.
Instead of focusing their energies on enforcing the existing law the Obama administration is seeking to overturn another which is holding them accountable over the lack of enforcement against illegal immigration.
ACU opposes this lawsuit and we need to work together in order to stop it.
We need to send a message immediately to Congress to withhold funding from the President for this lawsuit.
We are launching a petition here to tell Congress to block all federal funding of this lawsuit against the people of Arizona and their tough immigration law. Sign it here.
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June 17th, 2010
There is a disaster in the gulf.
It is large, unpredictable and there seems to be no end in sight.
There is another disaster in America – it surrounds the people sitting in our White House and there seems to be no end in sight to their push for disastrous policies that will harm, not help, our country.
Tuesday night the President of the United States addressed our nation. He used the terrible tragedy in the gulf for a verbal backdrop as he pushed again for a national Energy Tax.
Obama’s Cap-and-Trade energy scheme will hurt America’s energy independence, raise energy prices for every American – our utility bills, our stops at the gas station – and send our nation down the wrong path.
Cap-and-Trade is wrong for our nation’s energy policy, it is wrong for energy independence and it is wrong for national security that comes from energy independence. The President shows no interest in ending his push for this policy and we cannot stop in our efforts to fight back.
He is preparing to ask Congress to try to pass it again… and we need to ask them – especially our allies in the Senate – to stop it.
June 4th, 2010
While the nation is being distracted by the spill in the gulf, news has leaked out of Washington that the Obama administration is asleep at the switch on terrorism.
Our nation is at war with radical Islamic terrorists who are intent on killing Americans. It is a fact; plain and simple.
Yet, the Inspector General of the Justice Department in an official report this week said that the Justice Department has not assigned a single entity or individual with responsibility for a Weapons of Mass Destruction attack on our nation.
This department which houses the FBI, the ATF (responsible for explosives), and the U.S. Marshall service has no coordinated planning for a massive attack.
So, while Eric Holder – Obama’s Attorney General – who heads the Justice Department is holding press interviews about trying to stop Arizona’s immigration law (he admitted he hadn’t read); his department is asleep at the switch on terrorism.
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May 28th, 2010
Until this oil spill happened in the gulf, the President seemed to get the message.
He seemed to be listening to the American people who are clamoring for energy independence.
Now he is backing off.
He and the Congress have been beaten and battered by liberal special interests who are intent upon shutting down America’s energy production.
These liberal interests want to drill nowhere. They want to cripple America’s energy economy. They want to force us to change our way of life.
Tell President Obama and the Congress to Keep Producing American Made Energy. Now is Not the Time to Give Up on Energy Independence.
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April 30th, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, April 29, 2010
CONTACT: Brent Littlefield via 703-836-8602
Charlie Crist’s Announcement Proves Conservatives Are Right to Oppose Him
ALEXANDRIA, VA – The Chairman of the nation’s largest grassroots conservative organization, the American Conservative Union, today said that Florida Governor Charlie Crist’s decision to abandon the Republican Party and oppose Mark Rubio in the general election as an independent provides proof that conservatives were right to back Marco Rubio.
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April 16th, 2010
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Yesterday Governor Charlie Crist vetoed Florida Senate Bill 6 which would have eliminated employment protections used to shield bad teachers and more closely tied educators’ pay to actual student achievement.
American Conservative Union Chairman David Keene said in response, “If there was any need for more proof of Crist’s unacceptability to rank and file conservative Republicans, this is it. He has sent a signal that if he were to ever make it into the U.S. Senate he will answer first to big labor unions and will thwart any meaningful reform to improve public education.”
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March 22nd, 2010
Washington, DC – David Keene, Chairman of the largest and oldest conservative organization in America, the American Conservative Union, today commented on the decision by Washington liberals in the House to pass the Obama / Pelosi / Reid health bill.
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March 11th, 2010
Alexandria, VA – The American Conservative Union applauds the formation of a Balanced Budget Amendment Caucus led by Representative Mike Coffman (R-CO) and Jim Marshall (D-GA) but pointed out that Marshall has voted to increase the deficit by over one trillion dollars in the past two years.
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March 8th, 2010
Alexandria, VA - The American Conservative Union (ACU) is disappointed to learn that lawmakers in Utah have approved a spending plan that includes the $1 per-pack tobacco tax increase.
As the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots organization, the ACU has fought for decades against higher taxes and wasteful government spending, and this incredible tax increase is disheartening to all of the hard-working Utah families.
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March 8th, 2010
ALEXANDRIA, VA — The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) – a project of the American Conservative Union Foundation, in association with Young America’s Foundation and Human Events – awarded Eugene Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (1941-2007) its annual Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award. The award was presented on February 19 at the Ronald Reagan Banquet by the ACU Foundation, and is sponsored by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.
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March 5th, 2010
Alexandria, VA – The American Conservative Union (ACU) is disappointed to learn that lawmakers in New Mexico have approved a tax increase of more than $230 million for 2011.
As the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots organization, the ACU has fought for decades against higher taxes and wasteful government spending, and this incredible tax increase is disheartening to all of the hard-working New Mexico families.
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February 16th, 2010
Rubio, DeMint, Pence, Romney, Pawlenty, Gingrich, Bolton, Bachmann, and Beck to Address Nation’s Oldest Largest Gathering of Conservatives
ALEXANDRIA, VA — The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) — a project of the American Conservative Union Foundation, in association with YoungAmerica’s Foundation and Human Events — announced that it expects a record number of attendees at the 2010 event. This year’s conference will be held for the first time at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington D.C.
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January 6th, 2010
Chairman David Keene Says Erroll Southers Can’t Be Trusted on Privacy
Alexandria, VA – American Conservative Union Chairman David A. Keene today called on Erroll Southers, the Obama Administration pick to head the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), to step forward and withdraw his nomination.
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December 14th, 2009
AS THE UTAH LEGISLATURE DEBATES THE GOVERNOR’S BUDGET, THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION URGES THE LEGISLATURE AND GOVERNOR TO FIRMLY OPPOSE ANY NEW TAXES ON THE CITIZENS OF UTAH
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November 2nd, 2009
ACU PAC Contacts Tens of Thousands Supporting Doug Hoffman as New York’s Conservative Leaders Credit ACU PAC Chairman David Keene for Hoffman’s Rise
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October 7th, 2009
AS THE UTAH LEGISLATURE DEBATES THE GOVERNOR’S BUDGET, THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION URGES THE LEGISLATURE AND GOVERNOR TO FIRMLY OPPOSE ANY NEW TAXES ON THE CITIZENS OF UTAH
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September 30th, 2009
WASHINGTON, DC — The American Conservative Union today called on Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) to apologize not only to the entire membership of the U.S. House, but to the thousands of American households who oppose a government takeover of health care.
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September 10th, 2009
On the Heels of the President’s Speech to Sell More Spending, ACU Members Will Join 9/12 March in Washington on Saturday
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September 9th, 2009
WASHINGTON, DC — The American Conservative Union’s political action committee, ACU PAC, today formally endorsed New York Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman in the upcoming Special Election in New York’s 23rd Congressional District.
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August 19th, 2009
ACU’S TOWNHALL ROADTRIP ACROSS AMERICA PROVES PRO-OBAMA FORCES ARE ORGANIZING … BUT VOTERS ARE STILL OPPOSED TO LIBERAL LEADER’S HEALTH CARE PLANS
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August 18th, 2009
ALEXANDRIA, VA – American Conservative Union Chairman David Keene issued the following statement today on the passing of Bob Novak:
Bob Novak was a true giant and will be missed by all who knew him.
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August 18th, 2009
Dublin, VA – Constituents of Congressman Rick Boucher today spoke out against the pending health care bills before Congress in a Town Hall meeting held at New River Valley Community College.
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August 17th, 2009
Constituents to Tom Perriello:
Limit Government Involvement in Health Care
Virginia’s 5th Congressional District – Constituents opposed to more government involvement in health care turned out tonight for a town hall meeting held by Rep. Tom Perriello at Fluvanna Middle School in Fort Union, VA.
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August 13th, 2009
Dear Senator Lieberman, Senator Collins, Representative Town and Representative Issa:
As leaders of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform we are asking you to investigate the possible infringement by the Executive Branch of the constitutional protection free speech afforded the American people.
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August 13th, 2009
ACU Sends Letters from Thousands of Americans to
Senators Lieberman and Collins and to Reps. Towns and Issa Calling for Congressional Investigations into White House Attempts to Track and Suppress the Emails of Those
Opposed to the President’s Health Care Scheme
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July 20th, 2009
ALEXANDRIA, VA – Last Friday Politico carried a story alleging that I had on behalf of ACU made a “pay for play” proposal seeking funding from Federal Express as the “price” of ACU support in a legislative battle raging in Congress.
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July 17th, 2009
ALEXANDRIA, VA – The following statement is being issued by ACU Executive Vice President Dennis Whitfield due to Politico’s unverified accusations contained in an article and a false headline editors chose to publish today regarding the NLRB:
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June 24th, 2009
The ACU has sent the following letter to Senator Jim DeMint:
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June 17th, 2009
WASHINGTON, DC – ACU activists from around the country today traveled to Washington to stand on the grounds of the nation’s Capitol and join in the call to eliminate wasteful spending.
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April 15th, 2009
Alexandria, VA – The EVP of the American Conservative Union said today that despite news coverage on the new White House dog, the real dog in America is the IRS.
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April 8th, 2009
NEW ORLEANS, LA & ALEXANDRIA, VA – American Conservative Union members are continuing their push for more American made energy today in New Orleans as the Interior Department continues hearings on a 5-year energy plan including offshore energy.
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April 6th, 2009
Citizens Speak Out at Interior Department Hearing:
We Need More American Made Energy Now
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December 16th, 2008
ALEXANDRIA, VA – The American Conservative Union, ACU, today praised the Republican Members of Congress who had the courage and strength to send a letter to President Bush opposing his efforts to unilaterally give troubled auto makers a taxpayer funded bailout.
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December 12th, 2008
ALEXANDRIA, VA – Dennis E. Whitfield, Deputy Secretary of Labor in the Reagan Administration and now Executive Vice President of the American Conservative Union, issued the following statement today following the Senate’s rejection of the auto bailout bill last night:
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