Posted on 07/17/2010 8:23:10 PM PDT by Sasquatch the Original
Effective Immediately, Tea Party Express Is No Longer a Member of the National Tea Party Federation
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 at 3:43pm
Last night, the members of the National Tea Party Federation participating in an "All Hands" conference call unanimously decided the following:
The membership of the National Tea Party Federation has this evening suspended and will immediately expel Tea Party Express from any further association with the Federation should they fail to publicly rebuke Mark Williams and remove him from their ranks by 3 pm eastern time Saturday July 17.
The rebuke must take the following form:
1. Mark Williams must be officially removed from the ranks of the Tea Party Express.
2. Notice of Mark Williams' removal must be placed prominently on the official Tea Party Express website.
3. Tea Party Express must issue a press release articulating points 1 and 2 above.
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Last night, a member of the National Tea Party Federation communicated our decision directly to a member of the leadership team of Tea Party Express. That leader's response was clear: they have no intention of taking the action we required for their group to continue as a member of the National Tea Party Federation.
Therefore, effective immediately the National Tea Party Federation is expelling Tea Party Express from the ranks of our membership.
Contact:
Christina Botteri
christina.k.bo@gmail.com 916-315-8989
who made this story big? It’s a Democrat strategy to divide and conquer. Don’t bite, people.
“What the hell was he thinking?”
Um - - - I think he was thinking that the NAACP has become all about racism in our day, and no longer has the integration theme it had in the 60s.
The response to the NAACP racism bait should have been an immediate lawsuit by the members of two or three local tea party groups. You cannot respond with words, especially satire or ridicule. The NAACP is too dumb to recognize satire. A lawsuit they would understand. We the people are going to continue to be targeted as racists until we start fighting back in the courts. Slander is grounds for suit and I feel as if I have been slandered.
This is insane!
Mark has been the key mover in the TEA movement.
He is the most articulate speaker the TEA movement has (the guy that made Dylan Ratigan lose his mind on live TV)
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“And there are a LOT of Liberal Libertarians hiding in the TEA Party ranks.”
A humorous contradiction in terms!
In todays political world, Liberal means hatred of personal liberty, while libertarians hang on the other side of the spectrum, demanding total liberty, some to the advocacy of anarchy.
Maybe you just don’t understand.
Mark Williams didn’t make any ‘extreme’ statements; he merely pronounced in his usual eloquent fashion that the NAACP was the racist organization.
Truth hurts, and absolute truth hurts absolutely!
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>> “I guarantee the National Tea Party Federation is run by a bunch of Romney loving RINOs hijacking the movement and disguising themselves as conservatives.” <<
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Thank you!
That distills it perfectly.
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He has certainly has made extreme statements. You have probably just started following his statements now that he has hit the MSM with a big thud.
His statement to the NAACP was insensitive about slavery as well.
We really can’t tolerate racist epithets or insensitivity to slavery in our movement. I can’t, anyway. Let the other side make all the ridiculous statements they want but let’s not join them in speaking wrongly.
Mark is a personal friend.
I think he did exactly what needed to be done considering the actions of the NAACP and the lapdog media.
This issue needed to be discussed now, not later, and he has forced the hand of the manipulators.
I agree that the issue needed to be discussed now rather than later, and should not have been ignored. The NAACP was wrong to pass that resolution and they are wrong in their basic beliefs about racism in the tea party movement. They needed to be called out.
I just think very forceful and incisive statements could have been made that did not equate an entitlement mentality with wanting to remain in slavery. The entitlement mentality is not helpful to black people. That was his point. Why not say that in a way that could have brought some enlightenment to others on this point?
I think David Webb had the right idea in wanting to have an open dialogue on these issues, although Jealous’s insistence that it not be about race sort of negates any possible benefit it might have had.
We are in this together as Americans, to solve the big issues that are bankrupting our country and destroying our liberty. Surely some who are now on the other side realize part of what we realize. That could have been used to our advantage, and it still can, instead of going out there and reinforcing every negative image for the MSM to use to make hash of us.
We are dealing with the public. Simple truths seem to me to be best, stated well in a memorable way, and an attitude that welcomes others to our point of view.
“I think David Webb had the right idea in wanting to have an open dialogue on these issues”
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Webb is deathly afraid of any dialogue; he fears being called an uncle tom for working in a conservative org.
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Webb isn’t afraid of much.
I can get behind that, but this thing is SO BADLY WRITTEN that it just comes off as clumsy and stupid.
People shouldn’t think they can write, just because they can type.
“...the Tea Party is a close knit group of independent voters with like goals. There is no main organization per say.”
Agree. The strength of the movement is that there is no official organization. Organizing heavily, making leaders, bylaws, etc., will castrate the power.
agreed — I don’t know much about that guy but he picked a really bad way to try to make some legitimate, important points
“People shouldn’t think they can write, just because they can type.”
True enough.
“Asked to tell racists “you’re not welcome” in the tea party, Williams replied, “Racists have their own movement. It’s called the NAACP.””
Well, if that's what the brouhahha is all about, I'll stick with Williams. Yeah, he's a firebrand. But why isn't the "Tea Party Federation" backing him up for an off-the-cuff remark?
Me thinks they doth protest too much.
Tea is for tories.
Americans drink coffee.
in 1776 (or thereabouts) they tossed tea overboard in the harbour.
in 2010 we toss the politicians/maxists/socialists infesting DC into the ash heap of history.
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