FreedomWorks Launches Super PAC, “FreedomWorks for America” at Florida CPAC
FreedomWorks for America is the first Super PAC designed to directly support grassroots GOTV.
ORLANDO, FL – FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey and President Matt Kibbe held a press conference today at the CPAC Florida convention announcing the official launch of “FreedomWorks for America,” the first Super PAC designed to directly support the door-to-door voter outreach that produced historic results in the 2010 midterm elections.
The FreedomWorks for America website (www.FreedomWorksForAmerica.org) is a game-changing interactive platform that allows conservative grassroots activists to mobilize and coordinate their efforts to defeat Barack Obama, build a fiscally conservative majority in the Senate, and expand the conservative majority in the House.
“You have to get your own house in order before you can get out there and start taking on the Democrats,” commented Dick Armey, Chairman of FreedomWorks. “Our Super PAC is not about buying television ads, it’s about engaging the American public, and getting them outside talking to their neighbors and putting up yard signs. We want to build a grassroots army of active volunteers that will work to retire Democrats in the House and Senate, but also hold Republicans accountable to the principles upon which they got elected.”
Features on the website include candidate profile pages, official endorsements, interactive ranking systems for candidates on the issues, links to pledge time towards community organizing efforts, links to pledge money to a specific campaign, phone banking, grassroots training videos, and downloadable activist toolkits and door-to-door Get Out The Vote (GOTV) materials. It also features a “grassroots lab” where politically-minded volunteers can submit ideas on how to defeat President Obama in 2012, and rank the ideas already submitted.
“The website is designed to empower the leaderless, decentralized community of the tea party movement. There is no leader, no community organizing Czar. It’s simply a political toolkit for individuals across the country to use as they see fit, with unique knowledge of their community and circumstances,” commented Matt Kibbe, President of FreedomWorks.
“We believe that embracing the beautiful chaos of the tea party movement is how individuals can level the playing field with wealthy unions and powerful special interest groups, and complete the hostile takeover of the Republican establishment. So freedom is not just our goal, it’s our strategy too.”
As a service center for limited-government activists across the country, FreedomWorks played a key role in the upset victories of Senator Mike Lee (UT), Marco Rubio (KY), Rand Paul (KY), and flipping the House of Representatives in 2010. “Our end game is not turning blue states red,” Kibbe added. “We want to turn every state into a bright shade of Gadsden yellow.”

