ACU Releases A Conservative Agenda for America’s Future

While the Denver Assembled Liberal Party Features Liberal Activists like Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Big Labor on Stage, the American Conservative Union Gathers with Republican National Convention Platform Committee Members in Minneapolis to Push for Conservative Agenda.

Minneapolis, MN – The American Conservative Union, the nation’s oldest, largest and leading grassroots conservative organization today is releasing in Minneapolis a platform blueprint entitled A Conservative Agenda for America’s Future.

The Agenda, which is the culmination of more than two months of work gathering conservative opinion, will be distributed this morning to Members of the RNC Platform Committee who are assembling in Minnesota to begin the RNC’s Platform deliberations.

“We have gathered the opinion of tens of thousands of citizens from throughout America and they are included in the Conservative Agenda for America’s Future,” said ACU Chairman David Keene, “We hope and expect that this document will serve as a blueprint for RNC Platform Committee Members as they begin their work to finalize the RNC Platform.”

Among its highlights the Agenda calls for responsible drilling in ANWR and the promotion of additional energy sources, abolishment of the Alternative Minimum Tax, reduced government spending and the elimination of earmarks, true choice driven health care reform, and tighter border security and law enforcement.

The ACU platform Agenda drive is being Chaired by Arizona Republican Congressman John Shadegg.  Rep. Shadegg is being joined in Minneapolis this morning by ACU Chairman David Keene, ACU Vice Chairman Don Devine, ACU Executive Vice President Dennis Whitfield, ACU Government Relations Director Larry Hart and other members of the ACU team.  All will be distributing and pushing for ACU’s Platform blueprint.

Tens of thousands of American citizens have expressed their opinion through ACU surveys, town halls and petitions.  Those opinions became the core of the Conservative Agenda for America’s Future.

The ACUF, the American Conservative Union Foundation, hosts the annual CPAC gathering attended by over 7,000 conservatives from around the nation.  ACUF also publishes the annual conservative score rankings of Members of Congress.  Established more than forty years ago, ACU continues to be the home of conservative thought in the nation’s capital.

The Conservative Agenda for America’s Future being released this morning can be viewed at:  http://conservative.org/pressroom/2008/Platform_Final080826.pdf

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