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LEWISBORO, NY -- The voters' revolt against high taxes and a deep recession was so intense that even community leaders of New York's sleepiest hamlets got tossed. Nowhere was this more evident than in the tiny town of Lewisboro -- a northern Westchester municipality of 12,000 near the Connecticut border. Mirroring the upheavals in higher-profile races, like the defeat of New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, cranky voters in Lewisboro threw out their own Democratic leaders.

A Tea Party, Tax Protest & Rally For The U.S. Constitution In Defense of our Beloved Constitution, a Tea Party and Patriots' Rally shall commence at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, September 12, 2009 at the Temecula Duck Pond located at Ynez Road and Rancho California in Temecula, California. We have organized this rally in support of the 9/12 march on the U.S. Capitol on behalf of Southern California patriots who are unable to attend the rally in Washington, D.C. Speakers, music and events are planned. Rally is scheduled for 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Please bring appropriate signs, banners and...

Not only does the City Council rake in nearly $180,000 a year, but they use taxpayer money for eight free cars per council member, and each of them employs a huge personal staff of 19 to 25 people. That's about 320 employees, costing Angelenos millions of dollars to support. Compare that figure to the White House Office Staff of 480. Yesterday, as City Hall squabbled over its groaning $530 million budget deficit, the City Council came under attack in the Daily News from Antonio Villaraigosa's spokesman Matt Szabo, who accused the 15 council members, even at a time like this,...

Had enough yet? Rick Reiss Friday, May 22nd, 2009. Big government proponents frequently remind us that taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society. This line is actually attributed to the former Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. While true in some respects, our current tax system is anything but civilized. America now has a government riding roughshod over people and businesses with even higher taxes and more rules and regulations. It is only fitting to remember a quotation by another famous American jurist. “That the power to tax…” wrote US Supreme Court Justice John Marshall “involves the...

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CORONA – Several thousand people turned out at a rally Saturday hosted by KFI's "The John and Ken Show" to protest proposed state tax increases. Show co-host Ken Chiampou said he and his co-host, John Kobylt, were giving the crowd an opportunity to voice its anger and opposition to six ballot propositions that, if passed, would raise taxes.

Join John and Ken at their next Tax Revolt Rally Saturday, May 16 from 4-7pm at Tom’s Farms in Corona. Their last Tax Revolt Rally in Fullerton had 15,000 angry taxpayers. Let's make this one bigger! Bring your signs! Bring your kids! Sign recall Anthony Adams petitions! Tom's Farms is located south of the 91 freeway off the 15 freeway. 23900 Temescal Canyon Rd. Corona, CA 92883 www.tomsfarms.com

NEW ORLEANS - The fate of the University of New Orleans athletic program now rests with the State Legislature after a measure to increase fees to keep the program alive was defeated by a student vote. The vote, over whether or not to increase the students’ athletic fee by about $100 per semester was defeated by a margin of 53 to 47 percent, the University said Friday. The school said that the results of the student vote mean that the University of New Orleans will not ask the LSU Board of Supervisors to increase the student fee. “The only hope...

This guy is great. He is calling for revolution. A must see.

Anchorage fitness instructor Amy Brun doesn't want to see any more trillion-dollar federal bailouts. She doesn't want to pay higher taxes, and she doesn't want what she does pay to bankroll some corporate CEO's bonus. "For the first time in my life, I want to know what they're going to do with my money -- because there's a lot of it going out and not a lot of it coming in," Brun said. So on Wednesday, the 45-year-old went to her first-ever protest as part of a national Tax Day Tea Party in downtown Anchorage. More than 1,200 other tax...

RACELAND, Ky. (WSAZ) -- Tempers flared Tuesday night during a Raceland City Council meeting when a payroll tax was discussed. Railroad union official Woody Lane and Raceland Councilman Mike Wilson almost came to blows in the lobby after the council passed an amended 1 percent payroll tax. A 2 percent tax was passed earlier this year but never enforced. Even with the tax cut in half, no one seems happy. The city's two biggest employers -- Progressive Rail and Raceland Schools -- said they feel targeted by the tax. Mayor Don McKee and the Council said the tax could help...

How the tea parties could change American politics. Today American taxpayers in more than 300 locations in all 50 states will hold rallies -- dubbed "tea parties" -- to protest higher taxes and out-of-control government spending. There is no political party behind these rallies, no grand right-wing conspiracy, not even a 501(c) group like MoveOn.org. So who's behind the Tax Day tea parties? Ordinary folks who are using the power of the Internet to organize. For a number of years, techno-geeks have been organizing "flash crowds" -- groups of people, coordinated by text or cellphone, who converge on a particular...

Over the past day, “Tea Party” organizers and supporters have scolded and threatened this newspaper for refusing to cover Wednesday’s tax protest. One partisan website even resorted to adolescent name-calling. Just one problem: We expect to cover it. We always have. For the record, let me share my response to one of the e-mails we got: The demonstration has been on our coverage schedule for some time Admittedly, every day is a fresh day in the news business – and we rarely guarantee coverage: not of press conferences, not of sporting events, not of demonstrations (whatever the cause). It isn’t...

HANNITY: And, Governor, thanks for being here. You are coming under a lot of pressure for not taking all the stimulus money. How is it going politically? SANFORD: We're surviving it just fine. I think that there is this silent majority, if you want to call it that, that very much fits in with these tea parties that are sort of self-generating around the country, because a lot of people are genuinely frustrated and concerned about the stimulus and its size. And a lot of people are very concerned about the size of government and the way it continues to...

A reader just sent me a Force Protection Advisory issued by the Maryland National Guard dated April 9, two days after the DHS report. It warns that during the protests that Guardsmen and Guard facilities might become "targets of opportunity." There is a list of TEA party protest sites in Maryland included. WTF? Leftwing protesters might show up at National Guard offices, but rightwing protesters are almost universally pro-military. If any one from the National Guard shows up at the protest in uniform (which they aren't supposed to do, but hypothetically) I'm betting he'll have a lot of high-fives, back-slaps,...

CARLSBAD — Organizers of an event scheduled for Income Tax Filing Day, April 15, encountered opposition from an unexpected corner the administration of the Carlsbad campus of New Mexico State University when they tried to post fliers publicizing their TEA Party Day rally scheduled for 5 p.m. Wednesday on the lawn of the Eddy County Courthouse. snip

An iconic 18th century image meets 21st century technology this week as conservative activists plan nationwide "tea parties" protesting everything from the federal stimulus package to the banking bailouts. Organizers say Fresno's event, from 1 to 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Save Mart Center parking lot, may draw more than 1,000 people, and hundreds of similar rallies are expected across the country. Organizers say participants are angry and frustrated by tax increases and bailout plans that they say helped everyone except the average taxpayer. They hope their efforts will persuade Congress to reject further federal stimulus proposals. "The tangible goal...

This is a column about Republicans — and I’m not sure I should even be writing it. Today’s G.O.P. is, after all, very much a minority party. It retains some limited ability to obstruct the Democrats, but has no ability to make or even significantly shape policy. Beyond that, Republicans have become embarrassing to watch. And it doesn’t feel right to make fun of crazy people. Better, perhaps, to focus on the real policy debates, which are all among Democrats. snip One way to get a good sense of the current state of the G.O.P., and also to see how...

A revolution is brewing in Marysville. Hundreds of taxpayers held their own "Boston Tea Party" at Washington Park. The Yuba County Republican Party organized the protest and voter information fair, but organizers say members of all parties can unite for a common cause. They're against tax increases as well as imposing new taxes such as the ones proposed in six propositions that will be on the ballot in a statewide special election on May 19th. "This event is for everyone because taxes are affecting everyone, not just republicans, democrats, independents," said Terry Rutherford. Local politicians were on hand for the...

TEMECULA: Anti-tax rally set for Wednesday Organizers are preparing for possibility of counter protest By AARON CLAVERIE - Staff Writer Saturday, April 11, 2009 TEMECULA ---- Guy in Grim Reaper costume. Check. A "Zombama" (a President Barack Obama tax zombie). Check. "Don't Tread On Me" flags. Check. Patriotic and anti-tax songs blaring from a boom box. Check. And that's just the top half of the checklist that Rick Reiss has written up for an anti-tax "tea party" rally scheduled for 11 a.m. Wednesday at Temecula's Duck Pond Park. Reiss, a member of the Murrieta-Temecula Republican Assembly, said late last week...

Several thousand people jammed into Allegheny Landing on the North Shore Saturday afternoon for an event dubbed as a "Tea Party" to protest what they believe is excessive government spending to bail out faltering corporations and the economic stimulus package. The keynote speaker was Alan Keyes, a conservative political activist and former diplomat under President Ronald Reagan. He told the cheering crowd that had gathered next to the Clemente Bridge that while some of the blame for the nation's economic woes "can be laid at the feet" of greedy Wall Street bankers and complicit politicians, they "should go home and...

West Rutland resident Jon Wallace is moving ahead with plans for Wednesday's Tax Day Tea Party in Main Street Park, despite being denied a special event permit by the Board of Aldermen this week. When it comes down to it, he said, he's been told he doesn't really need the permit. And he doesn't see how the aldermen think they could deny protestors' First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly anyway, he said. "My gut feeling was that 'thou doth protest too much,'" Wallace said of the board's decision to deny the permit. Wallace was not at Monday night's...

2009 Taxpayer Tea Party proudly brought to you by the FreedomWorks Foundation... Taxed to death and living in Southwest Riverside County, CA? Join us on Wednseday, April 15, 2009 at 11:00 am at the Temecula Duck Pond on the corner of Rancho California and Ynez Road in Temecula. We will be ridding ourselves of some crates of Obama Messianic Tea and fighting off the evil ravenous Zombama, the tax eating zombie. This Temecula Tea Party is valiantly supported by the local Republican clubs TMVRWF and MTRA. See you all there patriots!

How do organizers of one of the largest grassroots efforts turn down the head of one of America’s two major political parties? Easy. He represents everything that’s wrong with the Republican Party right now and over the past decade. I’m not talking about the fact that Steele personally is an embarassment, though I believe he is, I’m talking about the fact that the Chair of the Republican Party has a job, and that job is to get Republicans elected, regardless of their positions, voting records, or ideologies. His loyalty is to the party, not to principles in the platform. While...

While the organizers of the Washington, D.C. anti-spending “Tea Party” have given a speaking slot to Alan Keyes, that other failed African-American Republican Senate candidate from Maryland, Michael Steele, has been dissed by the crew behind the Chicago Tea Party. Eric Odom, the event’s organizer, has posted the email he wrote to the Republican National Chairman’s staff after Steele asked to be a speaker. I very much appreciate the fact that Chairman Steele is now finally starting to reach out to the true grassroots side of the free-market movement in America. Unfortunately, it appears that he has only just decided...

Brave, defiant American citizens arming themselves and gathering to stop oppressors, slave drivers, tyrants, despots, punks of every stripe. Doesn't really matter who these oppressors are: we stop them all. Redcoats forcing taxation without representation or coming to take away our guns, Mexican armies or rioting gangs burning down the neighborhood. Bring it. We don't really care about the origin of evil, but we know it when we see it, and free men know in our hearts and souls that it must be halted by whatever means necessary. The Jews failed to take up arms in their own defense in...

The Republic of Texas movement is coming to protest in Burleson next week. So are "Citizen Patriots" who want to "take the fight" and promise "a coming storm." So are Ron Paul supporters and John Birch Society activists obsessed with the Illuminati conspiracy, the Trilateral Commission and anything that smacks of a global economy. They’re coming for their own little Tea Party. From its beginnings as an anti-tax protest for people who don’t understand how much of our North Texas economy depends on federal spending, the April 15 event has evolved into a festival for the fringe. Not all Tea...

Two men were arrested Tuesday night and charged with disruption of official meetings during the Wilmington City Council hearing on the proposed annexation of the Monkey Junction section of New Hanover County. The charge is a Class 2 misdemeanor and the two were to see a magistrate Tuesday night, police said. Several hundred people showed up for the annexation hearing inside council chambers. Most protesters didn't make it inside for the hearing. Inside chambers there was a considerable police presence, including undercover officers.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Taking inspiration from a landmark 1970s tax revolt, a determined group of activists say the moment is right for another voter uprising in California, where recession-battered residents have been hit with the highest income and sales tax rates in the nation. And like Proposition 13, the 1978 ballot measure that transformed the state's political landscape and ignited tax-reform movements nationwide, they see the next backlash coming not from either major political party, but from the people. If the anti-tax crusaders can galvanize voter discontent, they hope to roll back the latest tax hikes, impose permanent, iron-clad...

Not glowering sky nor mud nor threat of hailstones sufficed to deter about 300 souls from massing on the sodden village green in Northport, N.Y., that afternoon. They were a band of like minds bent on dire provocations seldom witnessed in the harborside hamlet on Long Island Sound. It was a day for brandishing signs, shouting imprecations and donning silly clothing: tricorn hats and breeches, bonnets and petticoats. A few carried pitchforks, the better to jab the message home. We good farm folk are fed up and will be silent no more. Their enemy: a tyrannical government heedless of the...

The "tea parties" will never have any sort of impact for various reasons. One of the major reasons is that they aren't a threat to any politician's power. For example, a recent "party" on Long Island drew 300 people. However, that's a deep blue district; in the last election, the Dem won with over 100,000 votes: 70% of all votes cast. The number of people who turned out for the "party" represents just 0.2% of all who voted. Street protests rely on numbers to have an impact; all 0.2% does is show that Dem Rep. how weak his opposition is....

The grassroots organizer for the first "tea party" tax protest in Montana says that the event's success indicates the concern in Montana about taxes and spending in Washington, DC. Between 500 and 1,000 people rallied on Saturday at Depot Park in Kalispell as part of the Flathead Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party is the inspiration for the modern day demonstration and event organizers tell us the rally was a non-partisan and peaceful. Montana Congressman Denny Rehberg released a statement in reaction to the "new age" tea parties saying, "Montanans are understandably outraged at the dangerously irresponsible spending in Washington,...

No one plans to dress up like Indians and dump tea into the James River, but a few Founding Fathers will be present when anti-tax protesters gather at Kanawha Plaza on April 15 to hold a "Tax Day Tea Party." Part of a nationwide movement, Richmond organizers have recruited hundreds of volunteers to conduct skits, listen to speeches and voice protests against high taxes and big government spending. Nationally, more than 300 such rallies are scheduled on April 15, according to the National Taxpayers Union. In Virginia, "tea party" rallies also are scheduled in Abingdon, Charlottesville, Franklin County, Lynchburg, Peninsula/Newport...

Washington’s continued mishandling of the economic crisis has disquieted the electorate. The bad economic numbers, the precipitous decline in the stock market, the dramatic increase in government spending and the tax increases lying just over the horizon paint a picture of an out-of-control federal government grasping at straws in the search for solutions. snip In the case of the current crisis the blame appears to have been assigned almost totally to Obama, at least by the thousands of U.S. taxpayers attending near-spontaneous “tea parties” in protest of the Democrats agenda of more taxes, increased spending, higher deficits and a surge...

The City of Burleson received a request to close a portion of the State Highway 174 frontage road between McNairn Road and Suzanne Terrace to hold a rally entitled the “Burleson Tea Party” on Wednesday, April 15. The City’s Special Events Committee (which consists of representatives of the City’s fire, police, public works, and emergency management departments) reviews requests for street closures to determine the impact on public safety, health and welfare. That committee met on Thursday (April 2) to review the request from the group hosting the Burleson Tea Party. The committee expressed its safety concerns to representatives of...

Organizers of two "tax day tea parties" ask people not to mail tea to elected leaders, but politicians are getting plenty of tea mail anyway. Mike Biundo, a coordinator of a tea party protest April 15 in Manchester, advised supporters to send the label of a tea bag, not the bag or tea leaves. "People are fired up and they want to express themselves," he said. "We just want to make sure they do it in a responsible way." A "suspicious" white envelope of loose tea leaves prompted the brief closure Wednesday of the Manchester office of Rep. Carol Shea-Porter....

Hundreds showed up at a tea party in Cape Coral, and they were not happy. The political activists expressed their anger over taxes and what they call out-of-control government spending. Attendees wanted just three minutes to speak their mind and hear what others had to say. "We don't like what's happening to our country. We're tired. We don't want more taxes. We don't want a big government. We don't want Washington running car companies and insurance companies. They can't even run themselves," Beth Neuhausel said. Taking center stage, or stump, was the stimulus and bailouts. Mary Rakovich said, "The spending...

Spending is up 8.7%over previous year By Matthew Spina NEWS STAFF REPORTER New Yorkers howl every year about their state budget. This year it’s more visceral. State leaders are about to assault the nation’s highest-taxed state with a new round of taxes and fees. In the middle of a recession, no less. “It’s just a sad commentary on New York State that our local representatives aren’t listening to their constituents,” said Colleen C. DiPirro, president and chief executive of the Amherst Chamber of Commerce, a group with an ear to effects on the upstate economy. “I can assure you this...

Santa Ynez, CA March 30, 2009-Taxpayers from around the central coast will gather in Alameda Park in Santa Barbara on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 to send a message to leaders of both parties that the citizens of Santa Barbara County are angry with the bailouts, debt, pork projects, and reckless and wasteful spending that is rampant in Sacramento and Washington DC. As part of the national movement of Tax Day Tea Parties, tens of thousands of American taxpayers are expected to unite across the country in the spirit of the Sons of Liberty who in 1773 protested the British government...

The Sacramento River in Redding may not be Boston Harbor, but that hasn't stopped a group of locals frustrated at recent tax increases from planning their own version of the Boston Tea Party on Tax Day, April 15. "Our historic slogan is 'No taxation without representation,' " said Greg Mann, a Redding organizer with www.bostonianteaparty.com. "It seems to still ring and resonate with people today." Mann's 6 p.m. tea party at the Sundial Bridge in Redding coincides with two other anti-tax rallies to be held earlier in the day at Redding City Hall. At noon, a group organized by Teapartyday.com...

Received last night via Email. Tax Day Tea Party Issues with TaxDayTeaParty.com - Explanation Posted: 29 Mar 2009 06:44 PM PDT An international effort to shut down the TaxDayTeaParty.com website has been detected by our technical staff. Internet experts commonly call this type of attack a Denial of Service (DOS) attack. Corrective measures are being implemented, and the site should be fully accessible again within 48 hours. Unfortunately, these DOS attacks are very difficult to trace. In this case, the attacks have come from both domestic and international sources. All we know for certain at this point is that a...

The coalition responsible for the February 27 and April 15 Tea Parties has been under an orchestrated, coordinated distributed denial of service (ddos) attack since Friday, March 27. Efforts to thwart the attack continue. The attacks prevent the public from reaching the organization’s main site and prevent administrators and volunteers from updating information on the site. While the attacking IP addresses indicate locations in Russia, China, and other European and Asian locations, the attack is most likely being conducted by a United States citizen or political group opposed to the Tea Party concepts of smaller government, lower taxes, strict adherence...

BUFFALO — About 1,000 men and women encircled speakers Saturday afternoon at the Buffalo inner harbor to protest taxes and almost everything about Albany. With the USS Little Rock as a backdrop and the dilapidated Memorial Auditorium in the foreground, many people carried protest signs. An emotional Clarence man rushed up to the speaker and put $20 in protest money on the podium. Protesters were discouraged from tossing tea in the water, but a stream of citizens rushed to the stand and donated cash. “People came forward with loads of cash. I had no idea this would happen,” said Jim...

Western New Yorkers say they're up to their eyeballs in taxes. Now, they're using a party to protest proposed tax increases. It was quite a scene at the waterfront Saturday as hundreds of western New Yorkers didn't hold back criticizing what they call a floundering state government. Western New Yorkers at Saturday's tea party tax revolt had a clear message for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Governor Paterson. Tax activists, some in costume and others not, all had the same message. They're tired of dysfunctional government that they say only know one thing, raising taxes. Small business is going to...

A tea party to protest government spending and taxing is canceled. Canceled by the government. Why? They feel too many people could show-up. Lynn Rosko planned to hold a tax payer tea party at Jaycee Park in Cape Coral on April 1st. The idea was announced at a Cape Coral City Council meeting, then an e-mail blast by the Republican Party and it was mentioned in the local media. With all of that attention, the City of Cape Coral felt there could be more than 500 people attending the tea party. Therefore Rosko needed to get a permit and insurance...

As Glenn Reynolds has repeatedly noted at Tea Party Central, the media treatment of the Tea Party phenomenon has largely been a case of studied neglect. Now the picture may be changing. The Tea Parties scheduled to occur on April 15 will not go unnotced. On his FOX News show tonight Sean Hannity just announced that he will be covering the Atlanta Tea Party live on Tax Day. He will also be checking in on other such parties around the country. I hear we'll be having a good one here in the Twin Cities as well. Hannity is tapping into...

They are mad as hell at Albany and they aren’t going to take it anymore. A group of frustrated Western New York taxpayers are planning to gather Saturday in Buffalo to demonstrate their displeasure with the New York state government and its political leaders. The event - dubbed the Erie County and Western New York Tea Party - won’t actually involve any dumping of tea into Buffalo’s inner harbor, according to its lead organizer, long-time community advocate and Grand Island resident Rus Thompson. People will, however, be invited to dump their property tax bills where many of them no doubt...

A group of angry citizens showed up at the Statehouse Wednesday in hopes that state lawmakers will hear their gripes. They staged a rally called "Revolt at the Statehouse." The group turned out for a variety of complaints, most of them tax related and they have come from as far away as Hammond and Muncie. Organizations including the Libertarian Party helped coordinate the rally along with a number of internet blogs from different political viewpoints. "You've got the Pacers asking for a bailout, you've got the AIG mess and on a state level there's been little action on the big...

If you are feeling taxed enough already, you may want to lend your voice to a protest in downtown Cleveland on Wednesday, April 15. Cleveland is one of about 150 cities in the United States where Organizers of National Tea Party Day want help demonstrating a dislike for taxes. The day was picked, of course, because April 15 is the deadline to file federal income tax. The tea in the name stands for "taxed enough already" and the aim is to attract anybody who wants to vent about federal, state or local taxes. Ralph King, a self-described working stiff from...

About 500 people gathered in downtown Lexington on Saturday to protest government spending as part of a national event. The protest, in front of the Fayette County District Court, is part of the series of “Tax Day Tea Party” events occurring across the nation. Organizers have also planned protests in Bowling Green and Louisville slated for April 15, the day taxes are due. Participants at the rally displayed signs, dressed in costume and brought packets of tea, which were collected to be sent to Gov. Steve Beshear’s office. Speakers at the rally included local businesspeople, State Rep. Stan Lee, R-Lexington,...