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'Tea party' crowd boos Cornyn, denounces Washington
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/2009/07/05//0705teaparty.html | July 05, 2009 | Andrea Lorenz

Posted on 07/05/2009 11:26:47 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

"You're the problem!" one crowd member hollered. "You voted for TARP," yelled another.

Boos interrupted Cornyn, who won his second term last year, after he said: "This is a day of celebration, the day we celebrate our Founders, who defied empires and declared their independence."


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 111th; aar; amnesty; austin; booed; conservatives; cornyn; independenceday2009; juancornyn; rinoalert; rinocornyn; rinoparty; tarp; teaparty; texas
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Here in Huntsville we had a bigger turnout than we did Apr 15. My guess is 4-5,000. Good time.


21 posted on 07/05/2009 11:47:28 AM PDT by 4Godsoloved..Hegave (Never explain yourself, Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

It seems some were larger and some smaller, but all were more vocal than last time. This is good.


22 posted on 07/05/2009 11:49:44 AM PDT by hsalaw
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To: TCats

voting on bills that spend tons of money and they cannot even be bothered reading the bills......we didn’t send these guys to turn over the reading of bills to a kid just out of college on his payroll.....we hired THEM to do the job and do it with earnest in a responsible manner......and when they vote for something we hate it oughtta come back to bite them.......


23 posted on 07/05/2009 11:49:50 AM PDT by tioga
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To: autumnraine

These goobers


Our goobers got your goobers beat..........


24 posted on 07/05/2009 11:50:09 AM PDT by deport
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To: counterpunch

Micheal Williams as a candidate for that seat seems pretty solid, as far as we know.

25 posted on 07/05/2009 11:53:49 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Obama's multi- trillion dollar agenda would be a "man caused disaster")
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Micheal Williams as a candidate for that seat seems pretty solid, as far as we know.

AMEN!

Michael is a FINE man with his feet planted squarely on the ground! He will make a FINE senator for Texas!

26 posted on 07/05/2009 12:03:01 PM PDT by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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To: bmwcyle
Cornyn is indeed nestled comfortably into the Washington insider mold. I don't trust him.

Gov. Good Hair (Rick Perry) is a total globalist elite sellout.

Perry has tried to shove this Trans-Texas Super highway (Nafta hwy) down our throats along with toll roads throughout Texas.

Not only that, he has made deals with foreign companies to come in and run them.

Rick Perry's TTC push has been resoundingly rejected by Texans from the valley to the Red River....he still tries to push it vigorously.

TTC would be the largest government land grab in Texas history. Stealing thousands of acres of ranch and farm land from hard workin families.

He deserved to be booed, he deserves to be thrown outta office.

Don't ya’ll be fooled with all this secession talk and sovereignty talk outta Perry....he’z just positioning himself politically.

27 posted on 07/05/2009 12:03:33 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
The Apr. 15 Austin Tea Party had thousands. This one has maybe 500. I hope this doesn't mean that the movement is losing steam

The lower turn-out was predictable, given the date chosen for the second round of tea parties. It's July, for goodness sake. Here in the DFW area, it was over 100 degrees on July 4th.

At the last minute, my wife and I reluctantly decided not to put our kids through that, yesterday. We missed one of the biggest tea parties in the nation yesterday, and it was right down the street from us.

I don't think enthusiasm for the Tea Party movement has waned. Organizers across the country simply picked a terrible day to hold this latest round.

28 posted on 07/05/2009 12:05:57 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: tioga
"we didn't send these guys to turn over the reading of bills to a kid just out of college on his payroll.....we hired THEM to do the job and do it with earnest in a responsible manner"

They're too busy looking for the live TV cameras.

29 posted on 07/05/2009 12:07:41 PM PDT by uncommonsense
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To: catfish1957
Coryn got an earful from me after the TARP vote.

The first time that I have not received a reply from Cornyn's office was after I sent the scathing letter after his TARP vote. Told him that next election I will vote in the donk primary, and support whatever donk runs against him. If I am going to have to live with democrat-lite from the Texas GOP, might as well vote for a blue-dog.

30 posted on 07/05/2009 12:08:43 PM PDT by AH_LiveRight
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Michael Williams looks best to me. He is a real conservative. He’s been elected state-wide twice-—I believe.


31 posted on 07/05/2009 12:11:23 PM PDT by lonestar (Obama is turning Bush's "mess" into a catastrophe.)
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To: AH_LiveRight
I was his county re-elect chair and they got an ear full from me as well.

I email Cornyn's office about once a week to ask if he's written any fund-raising letters for Arlen lately.

32 posted on 07/05/2009 12:14:25 PM PDT by lonestar (Obama is turning Bush's "mess" into a catastrophe.)
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To: Windflier
In Longview, they mentioned that the one in April was larger - but that people from 9 other counties were there. This time, some of those counties had their own.

Our Congressman, Louie Gohmert, was a speaker in April. This time he just sent a letter to be read. No politicians were there as speakers. Louie said he would be at the one in Austin.

He also said in his letter that he was one of the ONLY 17 that had voted against all of the huge spending bills. I knew he was one who stayed last August to push for more drilling, but I did not know that he was one of only 17.

33 posted on 07/05/2009 12:15:14 PM PDT by mathluv ( Conservative first and foremost, republican second - GO SARAHCUDA!!!!)
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To: Theodore R.
No, the Hutchison seat is up in 2012.

It's still an election in 2010.

She is vacating it early to give Democrat John Sharp a leg up.

Sharp is for Crap and Trade. I don't think he has much of a chance.

34 posted on 07/05/2009 12:16:08 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Obama's multi- trillion dollar agenda would be a "man caused disaster")
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To: Lesforlife

30,000 plus 1


35 posted on 07/05/2009 12:16:41 PM PDT by Texas resident ( Cut n Shoot Texas: Mayberry for rednecks)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Cornyn is a good ole’ boy country club republican like ronmney, mcaain, crist, and other RINOS. That is why Sarah Palin is not liked by a lot of them, she doesent play the the “rules” of the good ole’ boys club.


36 posted on 07/05/2009 12:17:09 PM PDT by mrsixpack36
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To: Windflier

My husband had to work yesterday so we missed the tea party.

But, JOE THE PLUMBER was in Austin on Friday for a tea party in Zilker Park (didn’t know about that one!) so there were two in Austin this week.


37 posted on 07/05/2009 12:17:55 PM PDT by YouGoTexasGirl
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To: mrsixpack36

Perhaps....but Billy Kristol likes her and that is more than enough reason to be alarmed.


38 posted on 07/05/2009 12:18:22 PM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: TCats

TCats,
Michigan,
You guys there have as bad of politicians as any place. You know passions run wild and sometimes real injustices are done. I’m surprised you do not see more aggression against politicians, govt. types and judges and lawyers for that matter.


39 posted on 07/05/2009 12:19:45 PM PDT by Joe Boucher
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
The opponent behind him said that he is an immigrant!

The next behind him, she said he was not eligible to be President, so he used the race card to silence her husband (who has been sent to Haiti?)!!

The first two mentioned were appointed to cabinet posts, hmmm!!!

40 posted on 07/05/2009 12:22:49 PM PDT by danamco
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