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About the Tour

This year, two leading public policy organizations - Family Research Council and The Heritage Foundation - are hitting the road together to save the American dream. The Values Bus will roll into cities and towns nationwide to advance the cause of fiscal and moral responsibility... a road trip to restore prosperity in America.

At each stop Your Money, Your Values, Your Vote 2012 National Tour will invite local leaders and citizens to:

• Raise Your Voice on the Issues that Matter
• Register to Vote
• Discover More about the Heritage Budget Plan, Saving the American Dream
• Receive Materials on Defending Life, Marriage and Religious Liberty from Family Research Council

Together, we can get America back on the right road.

About the Co-sponsors

Since 1983, Family Research Council (FRC) has advanced faith, family and freedom in public policy and public opinion. FRC's team of seasoned experts promotes these core values through policy research, public education on Capitol Hill and in the media, and grassroots mobilization. Learn more at www.frc.org

The Heritage Foundation is the nations most broadly supported public policy research institute, with more than 710,000 members. Founded in 1973, Heritage develops public policy solutions that advance free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional values and a strong national defense. Learn more at www.heritage.org

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PRESS RELEASE from the Heritage Foundation

Heritage, FRC Set Bus Tour to ‘Save Dream’

WASHINGTON, JAN. 16, 2012 --The Heritage Foundation and Family Research Council, two leading public policy organizations, are hitting the road together on a bus tour designed to tell Americans about practical, conservative solutions to the most critical issues confronting the nation.

Heritage will emphasize restoring fiscal responsibility through its “Saving the American Dream” plan and FRC will stress critical values issues during their joint voter education and registration campaign, expected to continue until the Nov. 6 presidential election.

With a banner proclaiming “Your Money, Your Values, Your Vote,” the custom-jacketed Values Bus will roll into Charleston, S.C., for its first event at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, outside TD Arena at the College of Charleston.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is scheduled to welcome the Values Bus to her state and make remarks. Other speakers will include Heritage President Ed Feulner and FRC President Tony Perkins.

“We’ll be saving the American Dream one bus stop at a time,” Feulner said. “Right now, our nation is on the wrong path. If nothing is done, our children and grandchildren will experience not liberty and prosperity, but more crushing debt, higher taxes and job-killing regulations.”

This first stop on the “Your Money, Your Values, Your Vote 2012” tour coincides with a meeting of the Southern Republican Leadership Conference and the presidential candidates debate that night sponsored by the SRLC and CNN at North Charleston Coliseum in advance of the South Carolina primary the following Saturday.

Early stops elsewhere by the Values Bus include Jan. 20 in West Palm Beach and Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; Jan. 23 and Feb. 9 in Washington, D.C.; Jan. 26 in St. Louis, Mo.; and Feb. 16 in Nashville, Tenn.

The 15-foot-tall, 45-foot-long Values Bus, an MCI J4500 coach, is owned and operated by Champion Coach of Greenville, S.C. The bus sports high-speed wireless Internet, flat-screen TVs and a satellite feed to maximize interactivity at stops along the way.

Perkins said today: “This tour will speak to the views held by millions of American voters who want to see the next president address the values issues which include restoring fiscal sanity, protecting marriage, safeguarding religious liberty and protecting the rights of the unborn.”

Feulner said Heritage hopes to acquaint millions of Americans with “Saving the American Dream,” the prominent think tank’s detailed plan to fix the debt, cut spending and restore prosperity.

He added: “Heritage and FRC make perfect partners in bringing time-honored common sense on indivisible economic and social issues to busy, everyday Americans who want to leave a stronger nation, not a weaker one, to their children and grandchildren.”

At minimum, the Values Bus stops will help local residents get more informed and register to vote. Some stops will feature prominent local public officials and business and religious leaders. Others will be full-blown events headlined by state and national figures such as Haley.

In coming months, the nationwide itinerary is expected to include Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

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PRESS RELEASE from Family Research Council

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 16, 2012
CONTACT: J.P. Duffy or Darin Miller

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Family Research Council (FRC) and The Heritage Foundation, two leading public policy organizations, today announced a joint "Values Voter Bus Tour" that will hit the road this week to tell Americans about practical, conservative solutions to the most critical issues confronting the nation.

With a banner proclaiming "Your Money, Your Values, Your Vote," the custom-jacketed Values Voter Bus will roll onto the campus of the College of Charleston for its first event at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 19 outside TD Arena.   Gov. Nikki Haley is scheduled to make remarks as she welcomes the rolling voter education and registration campaign to South Carolina. Also slated to speak are Family Research Council President Tony Perkins and Heritage President Ed Feulner.

During the joint project, expected to continue until the Nov. 6 elections, FRC will roll out its voter registration initiative and speak to critical values issues that must be addressed by the next president.  Heritage will emphasize educating voters on restoring fiscal responsibility through its "Saving the American Dream" plan.

"We are pleased to join with our friends at The Heritage Foundation in launching this 'Values Voter Bus' tour which will bring a message of real hope and change during this critical election year," said Family Research Council President Tony Perkins. "This tour will speak to the views held by millions of American voters who want to see the next President address the values issues which include restoring fiscal sanity, protecting marriage, safeguarding religious liberty and protecting the rights of the unborn.

"The President has said that this election 'is a contest of values.' I couldn't agree more. It is about values, and whose values will guide our nation into the future. President Obama's values are clear - marriage, life and the Constitution mean little to him in the pursuit of his radical agenda," concluded Perkins.

"We'll be saving the American Dream one stop at a time," Feulner said before leaving Washington. "Right now, our nation is on the wrong path. If nothing is done, our children and grandchildren will experience not liberty and prosperity, but more crushing debt, higher taxes and job-killing regulations."

Feulner said, "Heritage and FRC make perfect partners in bringing time-honored common sense on indivisible economic and social issues to busy, everyday Americans who want to leave a stronger nation, not a weaker one, to their children and grandchildren."

This first stop on the "Your Money, Your Values, Your Vote 2012" tour coincides with a meeting of the Southern Republican Leadership Conference and the presidential candidates debate that night sponsored by the SRLC and CNN at North Charleston Coliseum in advance of the South Carolina primary the following Saturday.

Early stops elsewhere by the Values Bus include Jan. 20 in West Palm Beach and Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; Jan. 23 and Feb. 9 in Washington, D.C.; Jan. 26 in St. Louis, Mo.; and Feb. 16 in Nashville, Tenn.

For a bus tour schedule and more information, please visit www.valuesbus.com.

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Tour Stops: January-July 2012
22 states, 88 cities, over 40,000 miles

January	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19 Charleston, SC	20 West Palm Beach, FL
	21 West Palm Beach, FL Fort Lauderdale, FL	22	23 Washington, DC	24	25	26 St. Louis, MO	27 St. Louis, MO	28	29 Tucson, AZ	30
	31 Tucson, AZ

February	1	2 Allen, TX	3	4 Plano, TX	5 Denton, TX	6 Houston, TX	7 Houston, TX	8	9	10
	11	12	13	14	15	16 Nashville, TN	17 Nashville, TN	18 Nashville, TN	19 Nashville, TN	20 Nashville, TN
	21 Nashville, TN	22 Nashville, TN	23	24 Lynchburg, VA	25	26 Hammond, IN	27 Avon, IN Grand Rapids, MI	28	29

March	1	2	3 Raleigh, NC	4 Charlotte, NC Cornelius, NC	5 Winston-Salem, NC Burlington, NC	6 Tryon, NC Asheville, NC	7 Hendersonville, NC Fairview Road, NC	8 Raleigh, NC	9	10
	11	12	13	14	15	16 Texarkana, AR	17 Little Rock, AR	18	19	20
	21	22 Grove City, PA	23 Camp Hill, PA	24 Camp HIll, PA	25 Camp Hill, PA	26 Indiana, PA	27 Pittsburgh, PA	28 Coraopolis, PA	29	30
	31

April	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9 Steubenville, OH	10 Columbus, OH
	11 Cincinnati, OH Lebanon, OH	12 Franklin, OH Vandalia, OH	13 Findlay, OH	14 Perrysburg, OH	15 Westlake, OH Cuyahoga Falls, OH	16	17	18	19	20
	21	22 San Diego, CA	23	24	25	26 Colorado Springs, CO	27 Colorado Springs, CO	28	29 Fort Collins, CO	30 Grand Junction, CO

May	1 Centennial, CO	2 Denver, CO Lakewood, CO	3	4 Sioux City, IA	5 Omaha, NE Grand Island, NE North Platte, NE Kearney, NE	6 Lincoln, NE Hastings, NE	7	8	9	10 Sunset Hills, MO Town & Country, MO
	11	12	13	14	15	16	17 Minneapolis, MN	18 St. Cloud, MN	19 New Hope, MN	20 Kenosha, WI
	21	22	23	24 Washington, DC	25	26	27	28	29	30
	31

June	1	2	3	4	5	6	7 Woodridge, IL	8 Rosemont, IL Tinley Park, IL	9 Tinley Park, IL	10 Holland, MI Jackson, MI
	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
	21 Pewaukee, WI Black River Falls, WI Shell Lake, WI	22 Eagle River, WI Greenleaf, WI	23 Sheboygan, WI	24 Kenosha, WI	25	26	27	28	29 Columbus, OH	30 Columbus, OH

July	1 Hamilton, OH	2	3	4 Centreville, VA	5 Pearisburg, VA	6 Harrisonburg, VA Woodstock, VA	7	8 Roanoke, VA Lynchburg, VA Richmond, VA	9	10
	11	12	13 Lisbon Falls, ME	14	15 Bangor, ME	16	17 Concord, NH	18 Stratham, NH	19 Merrimack, NH	20
	21 Cleveland, OH	22 Cleveland, OH	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
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