Posted on 09/30/2009 9:51:11 AM PDT by Syncro
Edited on 09/30/2009 9:54:22 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Leaders of a Republican-leaning political action committee have penciled in a second Tea Party Express tour across the United States, tentatively including six Texas stops including one Nov. 6 in Austin.
The caravan is expected to roll out from San Diego Oct. 25 and end up in Orlando, Florida Nov. 11. Unlike the first tour, which ended early this month, it won’t head north to Washington.
The working title: “Tea Party Express II: Countdown to Judgment Day.” Its intended message to Congress and the White House: “Enough!” Look for more details to pop here.
Some grass-roots Texas activists are skeptical of the caravan plans largely because they appear to be oriented toward Republican candidates and in their view, the tea-party movement needs to remain non-partisan.
In fact, I’m told there’s been back and forth with a Tea Party Express organizer including speculation that the caravan should be renamed so it’s not a “tea party” effort after all. If the “tea-party” label is peeled off, Texas activists have said they’d be comfortable publicizing and supporting the promised stops—including pauses in Amarillo, Lubbock, Abilene, Houston and Beaumont.
Sal Russo, chief strategist for the sponsoring Our Country Deserves Better PAC, discounted the possibility of removing the “tea-party” reference.
“There’s nobody that could say they started ahead of us,” Russo said, noting that the PAC blogged on the tea-party idea the same day in February that CNBC’s Rick Santelli uttered a cablecasted rant calling for another Boston tea party (peek here).
“You always have people, their egos get in the way of things,” Russo said. “They shouldn’t be in there bickering about little things… There are always detractors.”
At every stop, Russo added, the caravan participants are deferential to local groups and activists. “To be successful, it has to continue to be bottom up, where people at local levels take action,” he said.
Generally, Russo said, the plans for the second caravan bubbled up during the first caravan. “We wanted to point out to people there is a goal; it’s not just protest for protest’s sake,” he said, meaning that a year from this November there will be another round of congressional elections.
Russo stressed that the PAC is not registered in favor of Republicans, though it is a conservative group. “We’ll take conservatives wherever we can find them,” Russo said. “If you look at who’s holding up the health-care bill, it’s Republicans and Democrats.”
If you graffiti up the side of the bus with that liberal's picture, you'll be wearing it as a mask.
This TPXpressII is for helping our Constitutional Republic by supporting Conservatives and sending leftist office holders running with their tails between their legs!
Have you been practising with your bow for bow season??Just wondering if you have been using it.
Both bows turned out to be left-handed!
You gonna sell em or want your money back?
Naw, I gave one to my youngest for him to revamp.
The other is decorative, we’re all good.
Well laid and long standing plans, paid for.
My path may cross y'alls on the way out there though!
A scary scenario indeed. If Republicans are behind this it will backfire. If Republicans are behind this then I can't be since I consider them to be a part of the problem rather than part of the solution.
Deer season is year-round where we live. Surprised our insurance companies don’t make us buy special coverage for them.
Arrowhead1952, my coyote problem is getting worse, is yours?
“Deer season is year-round where we live”
Please explain?
Please explain?
Uh, I think she means road kill specials. U kill it, we grill it. I have some deer that I could hunt with a claw hammer. Feed 'em with one hand and hit them in the head with a claw hammer.
txhurl yes, our coyote problem is so bad, we have to keep our cats in the garage at night. Several neighbors have lost their cats and all they found was a bloody collar. We also have some wild dog packs running loose.
Mt Wife has a few deer she would just as well see in the freezer too. Hopefully with this wet weather, they’ll find other *forage*. (including the coyotes)
We have a buck that has a really odd rack. Last year and again this year, the two main points were touching when they were in velvet.
He has nine main points and several smaller points. I was feeding some stale bread one day and he came and took a slice out of my hand. He has at least 15 total points.
There is another one that has mule deer type points. He has split beams and has a total of 12 points. Both of these deer are very heavy this year.
I have a step brother who lives out close to Lake Georgetown. Neighborhood is full of smallish deer. A couple of resident have crossbows and when ever they have a BBQ, a couple of deer turn up missing.
More neighborhoods should adopt this practice, IMO.
We have too many people who call the fish and game dept. when they see someone with a bow. One guy set up a blind close to the lake and had a feeder about 50 yards away. Someone saw it and called the game warden and he staked the place out and eventually caught the guy.
There was one guy who killed deer on a regular basis. He had a cliff behind his home and would shoot them as they came into his yard. They would fall down a few feet and he would dress them, get the meat and leave the rest for buzzards and coyotes.
Yeah, I’m not into poaching but, lack of management is almost as bad.
Up go the coyotes again now.
They hunt in the rain, *uckers.
We got clean trucks :)
Dang. My 45th Rice Reunion is the 14th, and I have already paid money to see the Owls smite the Tulane Greenwave (aka Turtleturds), so can’t be there on the 7th.
‘legra, I hope you use your time to work on your book. Other things too, of course.
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