Posted on 05/05/2009 10:50:04 AM PDT by davidosborne
I don't think it is too early to start planning for TEA PARTY 2010 -- we need to keep the momentum going on this "ANTI-out of control spending" movement.. Please post any info you have about plans for TEA PARTY 2010 (April 15th 2010)
Passing it on...
I ain’t ready to stop Tea Partying 2009 yet!
PLEASE — PLEASE — PLEASE KEEP THEM LOCAL. MARCHING ON WASHINGTON IS TOTALLY INEFFECTIVE AND A HUGE WASTE OF MANPOWER AND RESOURCES BETTER INVESTED GETTING SOME DECENT PEOPLE ELECTED TO CONGRESS.
WHAT WE NEED IS A 218 MAN MARCH UP CAPITOL HILL THE FIRST DAY OF THE 2011 SESSION!
I hope we get beyond the “Tea Party” stage before then. This thing has got to grow legs, not roots.
I agree.. a MARCH on every STATE CAPITAL — AND LOCAL COURTHOUSE... is the direction we need to go... we need to plan a rally in front of EVERY LOCAL courthouse on 15 April 2009 — focus the message on sending the message to the STATE CAPITAL.... attendees at the State Capital need to focus on RECEIVING the message from local rallies.. I think will have a more profound impact and get the correct message to Washington
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Here you go: http://pushbackuntil.com. And it is even more than 2010 - it goes to about 2012. Because this is a battle that will not be won by a mere skirmish or two. It will take an extraordinary amount of pressure by we, the people, on a Congress that is driving us toward bankruptcy (among other things). Pass the link around, because it is going to take every American patriot to be deployed!
PUSH BACK UNTIL!
There fixed it.
I think that is a great effort... Is this your organization? If so does your organization support the concept of LOCAL rallies on April 15th, 2010?
BTTT
Hm...excellent idea...might add this to the list at http://pushbackuntil.com. Note that we will need more than TEA parties - these will probably get us a ways, but Push Back Until (PBU) events will make a much-more lasting impression. And I disagree that local ones will work - unless you want local changes. Which you should. And we will probably have to take PBU events to State capitols and major cities.
What PBU does is makes very specific mandates so there is no question about our goals. And these goals should cross party lines. But Congress will only sit there in D.C. and laugh if we only have a TEA party, say, in Olympia, WA (where I was on 4/15). We need both, but we have to take the battle to the very belly of the beast if we expect anything to happen - and that is D.C. And we have to “waste” manpower and resources if we are going to get anything done. What choice do we have?
Yes, this is my organization. Yes, we do support LOCAL rallies on April 15, 2010. No question. We need to pull out all the stops. Not everyone can make it to D.C., so by all means there should continue to be as many rallies as possible.
This is pathetic. You're only doing one a year? That's why the Dems are in power. They're out there protesting all the time.
I think having Tea Parties on the front lawns of our elected representatives would have a much larger impact. Until the demonstrations become very personal in nature I doubt much of an impression will be made.
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So now they have the feds all watching us
Like we’re enemy number one...
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They’re even calling us rednecks and racists
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And they mock us on TV
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So now they have the feds all watching us
Like we’re enemy number one...
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And they mock us on TV
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And fight against tyranny
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So now they have the feds all watching us
Like we’re enemy number one...
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I agree with you in that it needs to be on the front lawns of our elected representatives....... are you suggesting Washington DC? If so I think you make a good point.. I would suggest we make it the LOCAL office of our Elected U.S. Representative.. what do ya’all think about that?
Why don't the TP leaders turn this movement into at least one concrete goal like a balanced budget amendment? Yelling “less spending” without a quantifiable goal or measurable scorecard makes us look like children “acting out”.
Criticizing failure without giving the perps a picture of what success looks like is useless.
The better choice is to seek out and run decent candidates to replace the laughing boys now wasting air in the House now.
And I’m going to keep posting THIS until y’all get tired of seeing it, “get it” or come find me and beat the Obama or Pelosi outta me.
FORGET THE IDIOTIC MARCHES ON WASHINGTON. The political hacks ignore them and the only folks who profit are the airlines, restaurants and motel owners. It lets the participants all go home with a warm glow about having “DONE SOMETHING.” When that glow wears off — often less than a week — it’s back to the same old same old at home — AND IN WASHINGTON.
WE CANNOT AFFORD TO SQUANDER ONE ERG OF HUMAN ENERGY OR ONE FRAUD (Federal Reserve Accounting Unit Denominator erroneously called “dollars”) on SHOW BIZ ON THE MALL ventures! This time, the bad guys are SERIOUS! We must be as well!
“ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL” (Tip O’Neill!)
LET’S KEEP IT THAT WAY!!
Years ago, Georgia Congressman Larry McDonald (YES, a Democrat only because that was the label he had to wear to get elected at the time and when he started voting the Constitution up there, the Dems moved his desk into the cloakroom!) was working late in his Capitol Hill office when an old college friend knocked on his door. Larry rose and greeted his guest and, after exchanging the usual pleasantries, looking weary and a bit dejected, his friend slumped into a chair.
Larry asked him what was wrong.
With a little sigh, his friend said “Every few years, a group of us have to take time away from our jobs and come all the way up here to meet with our representatives and senators to try to head off some new effort to trash the Constitution. And I often get the feeling that these guys up here just aren’t listening.”
Laughing, Larry offered, “Most of them don’t listen” then added, “You do know, don’t you, that there’s a better way?”
“What’s that, Larry?”
“You and your friends ought to get together at home and find a House candidates who shares your values and get behind him with support and resources and REPLACE those guys who aren’t listening. And if there is no candidate with those qualifications, go out and CREATE one – maybe even run yourself! And if, down the road, the new guy stops listening to you, work to replace HIM. The beauty of the House of Representatives is that the Founding Fathers designed it so that these folks have to come home every 24 months to get their tickets punched by the voters. And as we both know, the taxing and spending occur in the House. If the lower house refused to fund some liberty destroying or unconstitutional agency or program, it just won’t happen
“And voter opinions in those district elections are pretty much NOT controlled by the New York Time, Time, ABC, CBS, NBC and the rest of the leftist so-called main stream media. And THAT’S a real advantage if you’re trying to get a REAL conservative elected to this place.” (And 218 honest, decent America-loving representatives could – on Day 1 – pull all that power previous congresses have shipped down to 1600 back up Capitol Hill where the Founders intended it to repose.)
“But, Larry, how do we convince the rest of the voters that the incumbent needs to be replaced?”
“That used to be a real challenge since poll after poll asking folks what they thought of congress usually got very negative answers. But when asked how they thought THEIR guys were doing up here got responses indicating that THEIR guys were doing a good job. (NOTE: Check at http://www.gradegov.com/ to see how YOUR GUY is REALLY DOING!)
“Does it work, Larry?”
“One of my favorite stories about that is the 16 year-old paperboy out in the Midwest who every quarter paid to print up 10,000 flyers listing how HIS representative was voting and threw them on his route and in another 9,500 lawns in his district – FROM HIS BIKE! After 3 quarters of that, the incumbent was ousted for someone who more closely represented the views of the voters. On election night, the red-faced loser was interviewed on TV and, waving one of the flyers, sputtered that it was a right-wing plot to “get him.” It was GREAT TV.”
“A ‘plot’ by a 16 year-old paperboy.” Larry and his guest laughed.
“And it’s happening all over the country – even in my state, Georgia. My supporters down there are keeping the voters in the 7th informed about my votes up here. Since my only standard is the Constitution, they keep sending me back. So it works both ways: The good guys get reelected and the bad guys get sent home – or hang around as lobbyists.” Another chuckle.
“But what about the presidential election?”
“While important, if we had 300 or so decent representatives up here on the Hill, they’d take back much of the power they’ve shipped down to 1600 over the past years and the 4 year beauty contest would become far less important than it now is. A metaphor for these elections for president, representatives and senate is a 3 card Monte game: While everyone is focused on the card marked with the “P,” the “R” and “S” cards are largely ignored.”
Larry’s friend returned home, got his friends and neighbors working to educate those around them – and within a year, had a new and improved representative.
****************
Around 6 am on a dark morning in the early 80s, 4 of us piled into a car in Atlanta with a few hundred flyers detailing how then Georgia Representative Ed Jenkins and Senator Sam Nunn were voting on issues important to all citizens. Our destination was Hartwell, Georgia and an “Eggs and Issues Breakfast” hosted by a large Hartwell church.
We arrived at the church about an hour early and deployed. As folks arrived for the buffet line, each was handed some of this highly informative literature. As they waited in line, they read and chatted as new information came to their attention. Just before the invited dignitaries were to make their 20 minute speeches (aka, pitches for re-election), we made certain a supply of these flyers made it to the head table. Ed and Sam ate precious little of the fine southern breakfast cuisine before them as they periodically glanced menacingly at the table we occupied. In unison, the 4 of us smiled sweetly and waved.
When Ed and Sam each rose to speak, each devoted 16 or 17 minutes of the allotted 20 minutes TRYING TO DEFEND their DOCUMENTED VOTING RECORDS to an increasingly hostile gathering as we returned Ed and Sam’s constant withering glares with more sweet smiles and waves. It was truly one of the highlights of my early years as a political bomb-thrower. YOU should try it!
After a bit more bomb-throwing in other parts of his district, Ed Jenkins was defeated in the next election. Because he ran state-wide and we lacked the resources and manpower to cover the entire state (and he did begin to clean up his act) Sam hung on for another term or two. (And those 2 year House terms — where the power to tax and spend repose — is where the effort must be concentrated.
Friends, THIS IS WHAT IT TAKES: DOGGED PERSISTENT EFFORT OVER TIME. It’s the only acceptable, non-violent way a system such as ours can be made to operate in any meaningful way.
All elected senators and representatives have local offices. Inside these offices are his or her staff, with direct phone lines to and daily communications with the critter in Washington.
Many of these offices are located in cities with TV and radio stations.
I think these offices should be picketed and picketed often. The word will be passed upstream.
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