CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 03/14/2011

Do What the Voters Want - Slash the Budget! To A Believer in Budget Cuts, Last November, voters overwhelmingly made their demands and their voices to be heard. In fact, it was very loud and very clear: 1. STOP THE EXCESSIVE SPENDING, and 2. DO NOT SPEND MORE THAN WE HAVE. And that is exactly what I say to you, even today. Today, when we have LESS THAN 5 DAYS before the United States Government "supposedly shuts down." That's right; the extension is OVER this Friday, March 18th. Read More

Wisconsin union fight not over Opponents of Republican Gov. Scott Walker were back at work Sunday on recall efforts targeting Republican state senators who supported the new governor's overhaul of public employee union rights. Volunteers worked the phones in an office a block from the Capitol, where a day before, about 100,000 people protested a law signed by Walker to curtail collective-bargaining rights for 175,000 public employees statewide. Read More

PROMISES, PROMISES: Little transparency progress Two years into its pledge to improve government transparency, the Obama administration took action on fewer requests for federal records from citizens, journalists, companies and others last year even as significantly more people asked for information. The administration disclosed at least some of what people wanted at about the same rate as the previous year. Read More