The chairman of our local Board of Selectmen used the term “teabaggers” to describe Scott Brown voters in a post on a local forum. I called him out on it, stating that perhaps I’d go to the televised meeting that night to inquire about it. I quickly got the following response, posted on the same forum:
“Allow me to apologize to anyone who was offended by my comment. The full comment read thus: “If I’m gonna live in a state full of dittoheads and teabaggers, I might as well move to the sunbelt...for the weather. (Wink)” The wink denotes that I am joking. For the record, (Islander-11) is one of my favorite people, Dem or Pub. The terms dittohead and teabagger are used commonly among lefties, as I’m sure that righties have some colorful ways to describe lefties. Mr. Brown earned his win yesterday. Having finally been enlightened here as to what “teabagger” actually, technically means, clearly, most of Mr. Brown’s supporters are not “teabaggers”. Actually, I’d be more insulted to be called a “dittohead”, but that’s me. I haven’t a mean bone in my body, and apologize to anyone who took offense. None was intended, but in a playful way.”
This will be revisited come election day... The moral of the story is - CALL THEM OUT! Stand up to them, be it locally, state-wide or nationally!
Im very happy with the effect of the Tea Party Movement BUT WE CANNOT REST .
PS a year ago or so you banned me for 2 weeks because I kept saying we need a new Boston Tea Party in this country ..MY have things changes