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April 15, 2009: "TAX DAY TEA PARTY [Nationwide] (Click Here.)

2 posted on 04/15/2009 1:18:46 PM PDT by Cindy
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I just returned from participating in a Flemington, NJ, Tea Party. Time: Noon to 2PM. It’s about a 2-hr. drive from my house. When I left it was raining hard and steady. I didn’t have a high expectation that many would show up at the protest.

Needless to say, despite the rain and occasional sleet, I was pleased to see about 500 people there. It was right in front of the Hunterdon County Seat. The organizer brought a portable amp system along which he powered from his car.

Amplification was marginal, but various people spoke spontaneously. Everyone who spoke made thoughtful points and there was little or no Onada bashing. Mainly stayed focused on high taxes and voting all incumbents out regardless of party affiliation. The opinion of the crowd was that Republicans as well as Democrats contributed to putting us in the sorry place we’re in.

There was a police presense, but it was minimal (I saw three officers). Many people in vehicles went by blowing their horns and showing thumbs up in support. I was also surprised to see a range of age groups there. Discounting the kiddies, there were teens through old retired guys like me. I was especially surprised to see quite a number of working age men and women. Preponderance of crowd was white with one asian that I saw. Flemington and Hunterdon County are well-to-do entities. Do not have large black or hispanic populations. But, still, there are no doubt wealthy blacks who live there. Apparently they chose to sit things out. Such a shame.

I thought the organizer’s non-partisan theme was brilliant. It leap frogs over dem vs pubbie and emphasizes common economic and political concerns. That is the way to defeat both the demrat hardline leftists and RINOs who aid and abet them.


14 posted on 04/15/2009 1:39:25 PM PDT by dools007
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March on DC 09.12.09!!
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Posted on May 17, 2009 2:34:23 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

It’s time to take the tea party movement directly to Washington, D.C. Please join thousands of local organizers and grassroots Americans from across the country as we gather in our nation’s capital to deliver a message to the politicians: Enough!

We’ve had enough of the out of control spending, the bailouts, the growth of big government and the soaring deficits. And we reject the future tax increases to pay for all of this spending and debt down the road. We are gathering on 9-12-2009 to deliver our message in person that we’ve had enough!


194 posted on 05/17/2009 2:39:55 PM PDT by Cindy
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Tea Party groups set town hall meeting Saturday [Starkville, Mississippi]
The Starkville Daily News ^ | December 16, 2009 | Paul Sims
Posted on December 16, 2009 2:42:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

The Tea Party movement is working to put “America back on track” as a majority of elected officials are doing “great damage to this nation,” one organizer of a local group says.

The Starkville and Columbus Tea Party groups will gather Saturday in Starkville in a public town hall meeting at the Starkville Sportsplex from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The event is free.

In explaining the Tea Party movement, Robert J. Allen, who co-founded with Gary Chesser the Starkville Tea Party, said:

“We have happening in our country right now something that has never happened before, at least to the degree it is happening. A majority of our elected officials have literally turned against us and are using the positions we elected them to fill to do great damage to this nation to the point of even threatening our existence, economically and politically.” Allen said: “We have expressed concern and alarm and disagreement with what’s happening and these same elected officials have refused to stop what they’re doing.”

He listed such actions as:

• Raising taxes. • Borrowing money, “putting our country in greater and greater debt.” • Destroying businesses. • The “so-called fairness doctrine in which our freedom of speech is being taken from us.” • “Taking war criminals and treating them as respectable citizens and ultimately, they’re all going to be set free because of legal technicalities.”

Allen said: “That’s a short list of things we have been telling them ‘Stop doing that.’” He said: “This is all part of taxation without representation. We remind them that America is a government of the people, by the people and for the people, but in ignoring us they show us that they consider America to be of the politicians, by the politicians and for the politicians. We don’t accept that and we are doing what we can to put America back on track.”

Allen says: “They ignore our instructions to them. They work for us. They not only ignore us, they mock us.” He referred to a comment by U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. – the House speaker – calling the Tea Party movement “Astroturf” instead of grass roots. Pelosi was recorded making the comment in an interview with KTVU-TV.

“We are the grass roots. Nancy Pelosi calls us ‘Astroturf’ which is fake grass,” Allen said. One element of the forum will focus on health care reform.

Allen says one provision in legislation to reform health care includes a “legal requirement that people of a certain age would be denied medical treatments and medicines because they don’t have enough lifetime left to justify the expense.”

Currently, “no one is denied care based on age,” Allen said.

The audience will hear from three speakers, including Dr. Phillip Ley, a surgical oncologist from Jackson. Ley will address such issues as the death provision and “other bad parts of the government health care push,” Allen said.

Those who attend will hear two other speakers. These are:

• Angela McGlowan, a FOX news analyst for several years and a native Mississippian. “We expect her to talk about the broad spectrum of issues,” Allen said. • Grant Sowell, with the Tupelo Tea Party, will be the last speaker. “We have asked him tie everything together and give people counsel on what they can do with this information that they just heard and how they can be more effective in standing up for our country,” Allen said.

Allen says there are are sworn affidavits from people in and close to the Obama family who swear that they know he was born in Kenya. “That makes him ineligible to be president of the United States,” Allen said, alleging officials “have covered for (Obama) all along.”

A Dec. 4 Associated Press story reported former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said on a radio show to host Rusty Humphries on a that voters “rightfully” have questions about the legitimacy of Obama’s birth certificate. The so-called birther conspiracy around Obama’s U.S. citizenship has been widely discredited, and state health officials in Hawaii have repeatedly confirmed that the president was born there in 1961.

Palin later backed off the comment on her Facebook page, saying she had never questioned Obama’s citizenship but believes that voters and reporters had a right to ask candidates whatever questions they wish.

Allen said: “We’ve had crooked politicians all along but we’ve never had this many who are in your face doing these things against us.”

Organizers plan to reserve about a third of the program for questions and answers from the audience. “It’s another opportunity to get informed. We want this to be a service to the community. This is not a political party thing. We’re not promoting a party. We’re promoting America,” Allen said.


646 posted on 12/16/2009 2:49:34 PM PST by Cindy
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