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Dear Friend,

At 2PM tomorrow afternoon, AFP will officially present our NoStimulus.com petitions (which at the moment number 395,047)  to the United States Senate in an event at the Capitol. 

Later in the day, the Senate is expected to make the final vote on the Pelosi/Reid/Obama trillion dollar spending bill.  

You're invited to join us for this presentation if you are in or near Washington.  It will be held in Upper Senate Park at 2PM tomorrow.  I'm sorry we couldn't give you more notice, but moving the vote up to tomorrow was a surprise move by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to try to jam this disastrous bill through before folks can even read the bill.

If someone tells you this fight is over think about this for a moment. Last Friday, I stood at the Capitol with a band of AFP staff, interns and volunteers as we presented our petitions to Senator Jim DeMint -- our free market leader in the Senate.  At that time, we had 69,487 petitions.  

Tomorrow, we will present your more than 400,000 petitions and -- if you can help us make a final push by signing the petition and sending it to your friends and family in next couple of hours - it can be more than 500,000 petitions to the Senate telling them to vote NO on this outrageous spending bill.  

Here's the update on where the battle stands.

Senate and House negotiators are set to agree tonight on a $789 billion bill.  Here's what we know about the deal: 

• This conference report provides the least tax relief of any version yet, even cutting President Obama's signature middle class tax cut from $500 per individual and $1000 per couple to $400 and $800.  That takes money out the pockets of regular Americans to pay for more wasteful spending. 

• This conference report gives away as "tax cuts" tens-of-billions of dollars to people WHO DO NOT PAY INCOME TAXES. 

• This conference report, by all accounts, still funds the stealth imposition of health care rationing via so-called "Comparative Evaluation Research," that would let bureaucrats decides whether people are too old or too sick to receive a treatment.

• The price tag is still astonishing.  $789 billion might be less than the Senate's $838 billion, but it's massively more than the $300 billion this bill originally was proposed at, and still tops a trillion dollars when interest is included.  There's still $50 million for the National
  Endowment for the Arts, $600 million to buy cars for government workers, $88 million for ATV and bike trails and so much more waste.  And, go to stimuluswatch.org to see the wish list of earmarks for cities and counties in your area.  It will blow your mind. 

With a likely Senate vote tomorrow, time is of the essence.  These are the key action items that could lead to victory tomorrow:

1.  Sign the NoStimulus.com petition and send it to at least 3 more people.  If we have a huge final push we could reach an astonishing half-million signers -- or more -- before our presentation event tomorrow. 

2.  Make 1 last call to your senator.  Many of you have done this and we're so thankful for your standing up. But, we have just 24  hours to make our final push.  Call the Senate switchboard at 202-224-3121 or better yet go on-line and call your Senator's local offices.  If you need talking points go to NoStimulus.com and we've got plenty.

We're making a huge difference.  Yesterday, "Americans for Prosperity" and "No Stimulus Petition" were the top two searches in the nation on Google, and the efforts of our signers have driven hundreds of thousands of people to our NoStimulus.com website, which was a featured story on the Yahoo! front page.  Additionally, today you may have seen the number of petition signers ticking upward along the bottom line of the Fox News "ticker."  We have literally flooded Senate offices with your calls and most of Washington is now going to NoStimulus.com site to view the counter to find out how many folks have signed the petition.

I know the pundits are political prognosticators are saying it's over and the Pelosi\Reid\Obama trillion dollar bill is a done deal. But, don't be discouraged.  Instead, keep fighting.    We can just be frustrated over what these politicians are trying to do to our nation and our economic freedoms.  Or, we can do "all we can do" for our nation.

Thanks and if you are in the area please join us tomorrow, 2PM, Upper Senate Park for the presentation of your petitions to the Senate!!