Steve and I met because we’re both going to DC at the end of next week to attend the Defending the Dream summit sponsored by Americans for Prosperity.
That’s the first time I’ll be on a blogger’s row and I’m looking forward to it.
Americans for Prosperity first crossed my radar screen when I encountered the pioneering work that their office in Texas has done on the problem of taxpayer-funded lobbying.
Taxpayer-funded lobbying is when cities, counties and school districts pay dues (with money, obviously, from their taxpayers) to belong to groups that spend that money on lobbying.
Here in Wisconsin, that includes groups like the League of Wisconsin Municipalities and the Wisconsin Alliance of Cities.
I’d like to see cities, and counties, and public school districts in Wisconsin adopt the habit of putting information on their websites that clarifies how much in dues they pay to belong to these organizations, and what bills those organizations lobby for.
Wow… When I saw this site on my blog‘s hit counter’s referral listing, I thought it may be due to one of those blogrolls… Then I came over here, and saw that this top entry has to do with the “Defending the American Dream” summit.
We just had a luncheon, featuring Grover Norquist, after which this upcoming summit was discussed. A scholarship has been made available, for one member of my College Republicans organization, to attend this great event. It’s quite a coincidence that I just found this weblog, right after we were discussing this big event, at another big event, right here in the [state] capital city. When I came over here, and saw the Americans for Prosperity summit mentioned, I thought that you may have been at today’s luncheon here in Springfield, and were blogging about it… I think that the hit referral must have been from one of those blogrolls, after all. But thank you for spotlighting the “Defending the American Dream” summit… I don’t know that I will be the UIS CR who attends, but whoever does, I hope that he/she, you, and everyone else there has a great time… From the way an AFP member was describing it to us today, it looks like its going to be a HUGE event, featuring most of the major Republican presidential candidates, and other big-name conservatives and libertarians.
Sorry about the delay in getting the comment up, Aakash. Your comment went into the moderation file for some reason, and I just got connectivity back. Guess being on the Blogs4Bauer blogroll counts for something :-)