Americans for Prosperity Brings Bus Tour Through Wisconsin

The national political organization Americans for Prosperity is touring Wisconsin this weekend in a black bus with white lettering that reads “Obama’s Failing Agenda Tour”.

The tour began in Oshkosh Friday morning with speeches by AFP organizers and Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson and will finish up in Green bay at the Packers’ game on Sunday. The Wisconsin bus is one of three AFP busses carrying the anti-Obama message across the country with plans for more than 250 stops between now and the election. Organizer Luke Hilgemann says the group has not endorsed any presidential candidate and sees it’s mission as educational advocacy.

“We don’t endorse candidates we don’t campaign,” he says.”We believe in the issue of economic freedom and limited government, and we advocate for those fiercely because we believe that they are the best ones to deliver lasting prosperity for all of America. Government needs to get out of the way and let us grow our businesses and create jobs”

But Senator Ron Johnson who supports the goals of the failing Obama Agenda Tour has endorsed Mitt Romney. He says he’s on the bus with AFP this weekend because he agrees with their economic analysis.

“Really what we need to do is grow the private sector and give people the opportunity to nave the dignity of earning their success by having a job,” he says.”I think what Americans for Prosperity stands for is that path that America should be on and their mission is basically informing the American public, the facts and figures the truth of the situation.”

Those facts and figures of Obama’s failuresaccording to AFP are more than 40 months of an 8 percent unemployment rate and this weeks’ Labor department report showing a rise in the number of people applying for unemployment benefits.Although AFP doesn’t endorse candidates, it’s affiliated foundation has spent millions on issue ads attacking President Obama’s policies.