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Newly Formed ‘Federation’ of Tea Party and Grassroots Groups Announced
Fox News ^ | April 8, 2010 | Cristina Corbin

Posted on 04/08/2010 10:05:17 AM PDT by Zakeet

Edited on 04/08/2010 10:20:23 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

In an effort to build its credibility and influence nationwide, the tea party movement on Thursday announced the formation of a "federation" of tea party groups.

Mark Shroder, a member of the Memphis Tea Party, told a crowd of roughly 200 conservative activists gathered outside the state capitol that 21 factions of the movement will form the National Federation Tea Party. Shroder said the federation will act as a "rapid response" to "misinformation" allegedly put forth by the "mainstream media."


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To: OrioleFan

Yeah, but it’s hard to get those guys to come on TV to make comments....


241 posted on 04/09/2010 5:52:30 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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To: r9etb
So maybe the tea party movement needs to be organized as a specifically nonparty organization, part of its charter stating that it is not a party. Would that do it?

It would still be vulnerable to being taken over by the wrong people, who would use it to endorse or promote the wrong people.

But I don't see how it can stay unorganized for long. I prefer it to stay unorganized but wonder in the real world if that is possible. Someone's going to organize. Even if the original organizer is one of the good guys, organizations can be taken over.

A longwinded way of saying I still haven't figured this out. Will continue reading thread.

242 posted on 04/09/2010 6:01:10 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: PhiKapMom; dixiechick2000

So now you are admonishing not to support the TEA Party movement too? How about Carl Rove -last year he was on your hit list - you were never going to support anyone who had anything to do with Carl Rove. Why don’t you just admit you are a paid consultant and independent groups hurt your ability to get money to your client.


243 posted on 04/09/2010 7:58:02 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Do you really want a representative who is more afraid of Nancy Pelosi than of you?)
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To: Jim 0216
>>That would be chiefly the Constitution
 
No need for various policing agencies..  which constrain the criminal nature from doing what it does - ehh?    The mafia loves Useful Idiots who'd dispose of RICO and such... 
 
Who needs RICO?  The Market will figure it all out! NOT.
 
>>Government is about control not freedom.
 
Given the tendency of criminal merchants to use dishonest scales... that's not always a bad thing.  
 
Equitable Commerce is a far different result from the present Oligarchic Kleptocracy - where elite manipulators of the Apparatchik generate wealth for themselves, but slavery for the sheeple within the scope of their control.
 
Do you think the opium market should be free and unregulated?
 
What about markets which "create wealth" via fraudulent appropriation?  How about micro-trading manipulation of commodity markets by firms who have the technological connections and capability to do so.... and do so simply because they can?
Hos 12:7
7 The merchant uses dishonest scales;
he loves to defraud.
NIV
BTW, have you told the Wealthy bail-out recipients the government didn't create all those 1's an 0's presently existing in their bank accounts.... if you did, did you get laughed at?
 
 
>>But it’s lithe and responsive and creates wealth
 
And wealth is the thing to be worshipped and sought above all else, right?
Ex 32:8
8 They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, 'These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.'
NIV
 
Rules...? Who needs those... go ahead - Eaaaat it. 
 
Same ol' Ba'al shyte, different Royal Toilet.

244 posted on 04/09/2010 8:13:47 AM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: dixiechick2000
Do you resent donations to the NRA or the former Christian Coalition? They use purity of their interests as their barometer to make their donations...no matter the party.

When fundamental changes in our government come (back to a Republic) they will come because we will have candidates for National office who have been tempered in the forges of local politics, state office, and who have proven not only their worth as statesmen but their steadfast nature as followers of the Constitution.

Real change will not come from the top down, only remedies for the current sickness which has invaded the Republic at virtually all levels.

While it is important to have large organizations, the heavy lifting will be done at the local and state level.

It isn't the Christian Coalition who feeds the hungry in my community, it is the local churches. Yet both Organizations have their place.

I am a member of the NRA, have been for decades. That does not mean I abandon the local and State issues to the NRA: if so, darned few would get any attention. While the NRA acts as a fire brigade to help with a few nationally important local fights, they generally have not been there to fight those fights as local and state gunowners' organizations have been, and at the core of any effort are the energized individuals who donate freely of their time, money, and talent to get the job done.

The TEA party movement is an assemblage of the latter who have organized for the purpose of fighting at the local, state, ad national level, but we have organized from the bottom up. The NRA is a top-down organization. The GOP is a top-down organization. Each has their place, but I would not give up the involvement and shadetree activism of the TEA party movement for an easily villified or co-opted National Tea Party (as in political party) any more than I would give up my local gun club.

I especially do not like the relative vulnerability of a national organization, particularly when the press seek to villify a movement millions strong on the basis of a non-event (someone allegedly spitting and calling someone names--even though there is no evidence of that), because it will only take one 'poster child', possibly even a plant, to engage in acts so wretched that the whole movement could be shut down by force and/or 'popular' opinion.

That has been the angle of the whole racist/redneck/neonazi/domestic terrorist canard in the MSM, to try to get one villified if nameless person to represent the whole movement to shut it down. It is the lack of structure which has made that impossible.

Solidify the structure, and there is something to strike, whereas local organizations are like smoke--there, visible, but not solid enough to hit, no matter how many are present.

Local organizations have done quite well at coordinating and cooperating, even to the national level.

On the other hand, there is a national organization, ready to go with a few personnel changes, which has ballot recognition and a cadre who will likely follow it regardless, and who will siphon off a large part of the vote, regardless of who they prop up as a candidate. I would just as soon see our efforts go to siezing significant control of that vehicle rather than reinventing the wheel, and that will be done where the rubber meets the road.

245 posted on 04/09/2010 8:14:27 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: LomanBill

Just keep the federal government at its constitutional limits where it belongs and nobody gets hurt. Let the states handle the rest – they’re well able.


246 posted on 04/09/2010 8:49:50 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Jim 0216
[Let the states handle the rest – they’re well able.]
 
You are naive if you think the Oligarchic Kleptocrat's mercantile corruption of governance exists only at the Federal level.
 

[Just keep the federal government at its constitutional limits where it belongs and nobody gets hurt.]

 
That is a hypothetical ideal state which Criminaly Minded merchants will, by their very nature, ALWAYS seek to avoid.  As evidenced by their pecuniary effect upon the Rats and RINO's:
 
R.I.N.O.
 
 
 
Mussolini's Corporatism, the mercantile affect over governance  (whether Federal or Local), is demonstrably far more to the Oligarchic Criminal mind's liking.
 
Thus, the specified purpose for American governance:
 
"TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men".
 
When the reset button is pushed; the 1st amendment should include SEPARATION BETWEEN CORPORATION AND STATE as well as the present prohibition against OTHER government Establishments of Religion.
 
 
 

247 posted on 04/09/2010 9:23:03 AM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: jd777
Time for a 3rd PARTY?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Primary the RINOS out...we don't need to divide the conservative voting power.

248 posted on 04/09/2010 10:06:08 AM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
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To: nutmeg

Could be a good thing, get on the same message page. Just as long as they don’t loose focus on the long term goal...conservatives in congress and the WH. Social issues will get fixed when you do so.


249 posted on 04/09/2010 11:08:39 AM PDT by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, retired Military, disabled & Seniors)
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To: LomanBill

Well, I’m a great believer in the Constitutional Republic that was set up by the Constitution where the default of power, as the 10th Amendment reminds us, goes to the states and the people and only specific powers from the Constitution are DELEGATED to the federal government.


250 posted on 04/09/2010 11:39:44 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Jim 0216

>>goes to the states

The States that allowed the Free Marketing of slaves to satisfy the demand of those who wanted to own them?

No Sale.


251 posted on 04/09/2010 12:29:05 PM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: LomanBill
Nothing is perfect, not even the Constitution which needed the 14th Amendment to effectively abolished slavery.

Again as a protector of our freedoms within Constitutional bounds, the federal government is, as you like to put it, a useful idiot.

252 posted on 04/09/2010 12:43:32 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: BARLF

253 posted on 04/09/2010 12:55:36 PM PDT by Recon Dad ( USMC SSgt Patrick O - 3rd Afghanistan Deployment - Day 171)
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To: Recon Dad

Great job!

Thanks for posting me.


254 posted on 04/09/2010 1:09:55 PM PDT by BARLF
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To: Jim 0216

>>14th Amendment

The one that granted Corporations personhood and thus the inalienable rights intended for INDIVIDUAL human beings?

Brilliant! NOT.

I ~will concede that local and state government are more easily held accountable for securing the rights of the individual than the Federal monstrosity. But even at that level, the task is formidable.


255 posted on 04/09/2010 1:51:45 PM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: r9etb

Yes, our 912 Project group asks for a $5.00 donation to cover costs. We have had as many as 200 attendees at a meeting, so that helps defray costs.


256 posted on 04/09/2010 1:59:53 PM PDT by WHATNEXT?
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To: WHATNEXT?
Yes, our 912 Project group asks for a $5.00 donation to cover costs. We have had as many as 200 attendees at a meeting, so that helps defray costs.

Which is nice, except that $1000 wouldn't buy you a quarter-page ad in any one newspaper, or a single voice spot on a major radio station -- forget about a TV ad on anything other than the local public access channel.

The Tea Parties need a lot more than that to get their message out.

257 posted on 04/09/2010 2:13:14 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: BARLF

I feel great I learned something today. That was off Flikr.

Now I have to have a mentor to show me how to be able to type in various type styles, and all the other things you can do in a normal Word Doc. This I have not mastered.

Thanks again,

Jeff


258 posted on 04/09/2010 4:22:26 PM PDT by Recon Dad ( USMC SSgt Patrick O - 3rd Afghanistan Deployment - Day 171)
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To: Recon Dad
I feel great I learned something today.

I'm thrilled for you. I knew you would figure it out and so you did. I wasn't much help, but appreciate the "Thank You" ;))

Now, just ping me to other photos you post!

259 posted on 04/09/2010 4:49:13 PM PDT by BARLF
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To: BARLF
I have to be careful. What my son does they don not want their faces posted, but I will have to learn to photoshop the faces.
260 posted on 04/09/2010 4:56:27 PM PDT by Recon Dad ( USMC SSgt Patrick O - 3rd Afghanistan Deployment - Day 171)
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