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Posted on 01/14/2010 11:10:22 PM PST by neverdem
HOLLAND, Pa. — The Tea Party movement ignited a year ago, fueled by anti-establishment anger. Now, Tea Party activists are trying to take over the establishment, ground up.
Across the country, they are signing up to be Republican precinct leaders, a position so low-level that it often remains vacant, but which comes with the ability to vote for the party executives who endorse candidates, approve platforms and decide where the party spends money.
A new group called the National Precinct Alliance says it has a coordinator in nearly every state to recruit Tea Party activists to fill the positions and has already swelled the number of like-minded members in Republican Party committees in Arizona and Nevada. Its mantra is this: take the precinct, take the state...
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Conservatives took the Republican retreat as a victory, but also saw the power of the party structure in deciding who the candidates will be. The rallying cry for more local involvement has been “No more NY-23’s.”
“We don’t want to see what happened in New York happen here,” Ms. Przybylski said.
The forum here drew nine candidates and a standing-room crowd in an auditorium built for 1,200. The questions organizers had drawn up for the candidates hinted at the issues important to so called Teapublicans.
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Each was asked to define the 10th Amendment, and to cite examples of where it “might have been violated.” “It’s my favorite amendment in the Constitution,” exclaimed one candidate, Ira Hoffman. “I can’t believe it!”
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Ms. Stefano, a stay-at-home mother and former television reporter, will have to get 10 signatures and put her name on the ballot to run. But the National Precinct Alliance estimates that about 60 percent of the roughly 150,000 local Republican committee seats are vacant and can be filled by essentially showing...
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I love it!gettin down in the dirt and Ripping the Rions out by the roots!!!!!!!
It is imperative that as many seats as possible be filled by those who will push, from the ground up for Conservative and Constitutional reform of the Party. Otherwise the Republican infrastructure may continue to be used against conservatives.
This is great to hear. It’s EXACTLY what the tea party movement should be doing.
We need to re-take the GOP rather than going 3rd party cause we don’t have the luxury of taking 20 years to build a viable 3rd party, we gotta win elections NOW or this country is doomed!
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Hear,hear!
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Thanks. I’ve submitted my info and the website tells me they will be contacting me shortly. I think we should all be doing this if we can. We can remake the party in our image.
Amen. Hallellujah! Hell YEA!
This is not the time to play 3rd party . I have waited for a good 3rd party for 40 years but NOW is just not the time. One example is look how the vote was split in Illinois when BO left. And the DEMS will still have control if the Tea Party takes away percentages
I’m all for the Tea Party Tour but that’s it!
IL Roland Burris D -[21] Alexi Giannoulias (D)
David H. Hoffman(D)
Robert Marshall (D)
Jacob Meister (D)
Corey Dabney (D)
Cheryle Jackson (D)
Willie Boyd, Jr. (D)
John Arrington (R)
Mark Kirk (R)
Don Lowery (R)
Andy Martin (R)
Kathleen Thomas (R)
Patrick Hughes (R)
Robert Zadek (R)
Tom Kuna (R)
LeAlan Jones (G)
Michael Labno (L)
Eric Wallace (ind?)
Barack Obama (D) 69.97%
Alan Keyes (R) 27.05%
Albert Franzen (I) 1.58%
Jerry Kohn (L) 1.35%
“We can remake the party in our image.”
Hear Hear!
Not that I’m that cute or anythng....
Pay no attenton to me tonight/ths morning. I have been at it all day puttng up the state threads and doing people’s income taxes as a favor until just now. I am too hyped up to sleep and too tired to make any sense at all.
Take back America, NOW!
I love it!
This points out how things really work. The RNC does not select candidates but supports candidates selected. Hence, Dede Scozzafava.
Establishment Republicans see tea partiers as anarchists? That’s how libertarians are seen though the silent majority of libertarians are more Constitutionalist than anarchist. Tea partiers are not anarchist but sick of being mugged by an out of control government.
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Good stuff! I’ve tried several times over the past years to get onto our local Republican committee, but there aren’t any vacancies for our precinct, and it’s very much an insider game. However, I’m a township historical commissioner, and volunteer as a poll watcher. A little insight and influence is better than none.
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