Posted on 01/18/2010 9:45:25 PM PST by Publius772000
In February of 2009, almost a full year before this year’s Convention will be held, I stood with 250 other brave souls on the steps of the Capital Building in Atlanta, GA. Brave, because it was pouring a cold rain over all of us, drenching we happy few to the proverbial bones. My children, aged 4, 3, and 1 at the time, were there as well, somewhat drier and warmer than my wife and I, thanks to the tarp we were given by a kind woman and the blankets we had packed for them.
At that meeting, few spoke. The keynote address was delivered by local radio personality Eric Von Haessler, who encouraged the crowd to send a simple message to Washington: “Enough is enough!” I was interviewed by 11Alive, the local NBC affiliate, probably because they wanted to show how cruel we were for bringing our children into the elements to protest the fledgling Obama administration. I calmly explained that it wasn’t Obama alone. It was the Washington Establishment that we were protesting. The lack of representation. Their willingness to sell off our children’s future for short-term political gain.
In April, we returned to Atlanta for the Tax Day Tea Party. By this time, some national figures, such as Sean Hannity, had figured out that the movement wasn’t going away, and it involved many in their consumer base. Hannity’s presence made the April protest an amazing success, inflating the numbers from our band of 250 in February to 15,000.
Subsequent Tea Parties continued to bring out the patriots. We had to drive to the Cobb County Fairgrounds in July because a local Simon Mall had nixed the Atlanta Tea Party scheduled for that date. At that protest, our three boys joined the National Rifle Association...
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It’s bothersome to see it turned into a high dollar national pay event. The venue has to be financed, but at that price? Promise Keepers asked more than an order of magnitude less.
No matter what they decide at the event don’t mean we will agree or go along with their platforms.
Every state has unique problems and unique solutions. The key is grassroots organizing to rally for candidates we can endorse.
“the national Tea Party “Convention” will be held in Nashville”
The Dems are doing everything in their power to turn TEA into a 3rd party. That way they can stay in power. Look for laundered Soros cash to help the cause soon.
They better knock this off. They are playing with fire.
Mr. Zarkman, right on. I think that each state must use the Tea’s to identify conservitive canidates (be them repubs or indepenets or ect.)that people that the majorty of conservitives can support. and then donate directly to the canidate and not to the rnc. eventually the rnc will either change and come aroud to us of fade away so a new party can come into existance. as the founding fathers warnened us about so many times “we must not let power be concertrate in one place (washington d.c.)”that is why it was given to the states, that way power was diluted over many states and people of each state made their own decisions.Power to the States................
Turning the movement into a centralized, elitist party will be its death. Nothing could be better for liberal Democrats, who will feast on the confusion and discord. I’m not defending the Republicans by any stretch. I just don’t want our “leadership” to become our own worst enemy.
the repubs leadership had 8 years to fix stuff and what did they do?? piss it away....
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