Right Online
Americans for Prosperity is hosting an event on Sunday, September 12, 2010, 12-4 PM.
RightOnline will teach you how to use the tools of the Internet to fight for conservative values, organize with fellow activists online, and make a difference in state and federal public policy debates. Our line up of grassroots training sessions and activism workshops will provide you with the opportunity to add new tools to your own influence as a grassroots activist. Join us at RightOnline and learn how to bring our country back to limited government, free enterprise and individual freedom.
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Reclaiming Your American Heritage: The Intellectual Tools You Need to Tame Big Government
Atlas Economic Research Foundation is hosting an event Sunday, September 12, 2010, 1 - 5 PM.
Join Atlas Economic Research Foundation and State Policy Network, Sunday September 12, 2010 from 1 - 5 PM, for an afternoon of lectures and a book signing with Dr. Tom G. Palmer, Vice President of International Programs for Atlas Economic Research Foundation, and author of Realizing Freedom.In two compact and compelling lectures, Dr. Palmer will review the history of freedom from Sumeria to Obama, the role of incentives and institutions in shaping economic development, the key foundations to sound public policy analysis as well as the American constitutional order of limited, enumerated powers and unenumerated individual rights. These ideas represent the foundations of a freedom philosophy that informed our American experiment and continues to provide the best hope for America's way forward.
Getting Criminal Justice Right: Less Crime for Less Money
Texas Public Policy Foundation is hosting an event on Sunday, September 12, 2010, 6 - 8 PM.
As your state faces a tight budget that requires prioritizing spending, experts will share insights on how you can help elected officials develop and communicate policy options in this area of increasing interest, particularly among conservatives. This program will focus on research and recent successes in other states that point to solutions for bringing corrections costs under control while also reducing crime, making victims whole, and putting more offenders on the path to being productive, taxpaying citizens. With corrections as one of the top five budget items in most states and along with health care one of the two fastest growing over the last two decades, there has never been a better time for SPN groups to bring recommendations based on the principles of limited government and personal responsibility to the criminal justice policy arena.
Strategy session with Rob Witwer author of The Party's Over: How the Colorado Model Changed Politics
State Policy Network is hosting an event Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 2 - 4 PM.
Learn more about how the progressive movement strategically invested and built infrastructure in Colorado to turn a once rock-solid Republican state into a Democratic strong-hold. In Colorado, progressives believe they have found a blueprint for creating permanent Democratic majorities across the nation. With discipline and focus, they have pioneered a legal architecture designed to take advantage of new campaign finance laws and an emerging breed of progressive donors who are willing to commit unprecedented resources to local races. This will impact the work done by c3 organizations and so think tank leaders must be informed about what will happen in other states across the country.
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Tools to Combat Excessive Spending
The Mercatus Center at George Mason University hosting an event Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 2 - 3 PM.
Following the economic collapse of 2008, nearly every state faced a major budget gap. The collective deficits of the states totaled almost $300 billion between FY2009 and FY2012. As states have scrambled to close these gaps, state legislatures have cut budgets, raised taxes and fees, and employed fiscal gamesmanship. However, these problems cannot be solved with a quick fix; there must be structural reform in states budgets.
In this session, Eileen Norcross and Matthew Mitchell, scholars from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, will offer a framework on how to identify methods states are using to balance their budget but not truly offer long-term reform and fiscal stability. This panel will also discuss pragmatic solutions you can take back to your states on how to curb the growth of state spending by implementing effective tax and expenditure limitations, strict budget requirements and other tools.
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Citizen Auditors: Mothers Against Debt
SpendingRevolt.com is hosting an event Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 3-4PM
Women are the key to proving that government spending is not "for the children." Co-opting terms from the tax-and-spend coalition, women lead the charge to show that reduced government spending is a family value.
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State Energy and Climate Policy Summit: Beating Back Bad Policy in the States
Atlas Economic Research Foundation is hosting an event Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 2 - 10 PM.
Join Atlas Economic Research Foundation and State Policy Network, Wednesday September 15, 2010, 2 - 10 PM for a series of roundtable discussions with national and state think tank experts to develop winning strategies to push back against the tide of bad energy and climate policies at the state level. Already coming to SPN Annual Meeting? Stick around an extra night and enjoy an afternoon of conversation and strategy discussion on the latest trends in state legislation and a review of the best research and resources exposing the myths, flaws and failures of government-led energy markets. Network with colleagues during the reception and dinner featuring keynote speaker, Rob Bradley, Chairman of the Institute for Energy Research and author of the forthcoming book Edison to Enron: Energy Markets and Political Strategies.
