The Club began airing this TV ad on Rhode Island cable television on April 25. The ad explains Senator Lincoln Chafee's support for high taxes, his sponsorship of $48 billion more in government spending, and his votes for wasteful spending, including the "Bridge to Nowhere" boondoggle in Alaska. It calls on Rhode Islanders to tell Chafee that he's just too liberal with their taxes.

On Thurday, Senator Tom Coburn dropped a fiscal bomb on an unsuspecting Senate. Using a rare procedural device, Coburn offered a "clay pigeon" amendment to the war supplemental bill that the upper chamber is currently debating. In short, he tosses up this one amendment like a "clay pigeon" and it gets broken up into several amendments. In other words, Coburn stealthly offered 19 amendments that all attacked wasteful pork projects within the bill. Check out the Club's blog for continuous coverage.

Ahead of the debate, Club for Growth Executive Director David Keating joined with other prominent leaders in the conservative movement at a press conference to urge the Senate to hold the line on spending in the supplemental spending bill. To read a good roundup of how the press conference went, click here.

Club members donated over $1 million to Coburn's campaign in 2004. We think that was a great investment.

A couple of Club members have forwarded photographs that you're going to love. Click here first and then here. As you can tell, they are two dedicated Club for Growth members, clearly passionate about reducing the tax burden on Americans. If you have any pictures that you would like us and other members to see, send them along! Just email them to Andy at aroth@clubforgrowth.org.

Did you catch Pat on KRMS-AM in Missouri last week? If you think Pat would make a good guest on one of your local radio shows, let us know who it is and we'll give them a call!

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