WASHINGTON-The free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) today applauded U.S. Senator John Thune for signing the group’s “No Climate Tax Pledge.” By doing so, Thune joins over 190 lawmakers on the federal, state and local levels pledging to “oppose legislation relating to climate change that includes a net increase in government revenue.”

PIERRE- Today the House Committee on State Affairs passed out of committee House Bill 1233 which would establish a searchable online database for detailed searches of state spending. Such a system would allow taxpayers to keep an eye on how state government is spending the public's money.

"The State House passed a tax increase on South Dakotans last week disguised as property tax reform when it voted to change the 150% property tax rule," Duane Sand, State Director Americans for Prosperity

SIOUX FALLS- Last week State Senate Democrat Leader Scott Heidepriem was quoted in the Rapid City Journal: "We don't understand why the growth of state government can't be capped...We want to shift priorities away from the bureaucracy and to education." Americans for Prosperity (AFP) South Dakota agrees with State Senator Heidepriem that state government priorities should shift away from the bureaucracy and to our state's priorities.