GOP illegally silencing Tea Parties

The Macon County Conservative Examiner ^ | 12-22-10 | Robert Moon

[aquapub]

The Republican State Central Committee in Illinois is instructing its County Chairmen to illegally stack the deck against Tea Party reformers in the March 3rd elections...

[PGalt]

That’s what statists do. Thanks for posting.

Sweep ALL out or let them ALL resign and go back to their families. They only understand power. It’s time to flex OUR muscle. The soap box doesn’t work. They control all of the amplification devices. It’s time for the ballot box. It’s peaceful. It’s powerful.

[gimme1ibertee]

Push back hard,Tea Party Patriots!!

[concerned about politics]

We don't need a third party. Is that what they're preventing?
We need conservatives to take over the Republican party (because the left is just too far gone. They're all commies now).

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Well, we knew that the drive to TEApublicanise the GOP wasn’t going to come without some opposition. The time is now to FLOOD every county meeting where the Chairman actually follows these instruction, bring in hundreds to overrule the parliamentary junk by force of numbers.

[blueyon]

Just posted it on facebooks - Rino Free America project http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=194479048644&ref=nf

Thanks for posting this Aquapub

[greyfoxx39]

Ping

[o_zarkman44]

Putting live bodies in each precinct committee chair will keep this assumption of representation by the GOP elite from doing exactly what they are attempting.

[RC one]

The GOP is undermining a grassroots conservative movement? What are they afraid of? They should embrace this kind of a movement or, at the very least, not undermine it.

[Diogenesis]

“The Tea Parties have spent the last year recruiting new Precinct Committeeman candidates to take back the Republican Party for actual grassroots conservatives. But the votes of these newly-elected officials are now going to be nullified as County Chairmen across the state exercise their made-up, non-existent right to vote vacant precincts however they see fit.”

“The law—Illinois Election Code at 10 ILCS 5/7-8(a)—is clear: Each elected ward, township or precinct committeeman shall cast as his vote one vote for each ballot voted in his ward, township, part of a township or precinct in the last preceding primary election of his political party.”

[RoadTest]

Illinois. Uh-huh.

[paulycy]

We need Tea Party lawyers.

[Man50D]

And yet people still insist on remaining with the OP(formerly the GOP) even though they have been purposely driving Conservatives out of the OP for years! It only illustrates we have one big socialist Republicrat party.

[Freddd]

‘tea party reformers’

??

[FrankR]

"GOP illegally silencing Tea Parties"

IF....the Tea Parties stick to their original purpose, no one can silence the Tea Party; the Tea Parties are THE PEOPLE, and THE PEOPLE rule...(says so in the Constitution)

The fact that a powerful group is challenging the GOP's claim to "conservatism", is scaring them to death. It's scaring them because of the prominent threat of "RINO-ism" running through the party.

On the other hand, this could be fodder put out from the left to throw out a challenge to trick the Tea Parties into becoming a 'third party', thereby guaranteeing obama a second term.

The best thing for the TEA PARTY to do is, totally ignore all parties and stick to the Constitution and exercising the freedom of speech to protest what the current government is doing to America.

The Tea Party MUST remain grass roots, or we're "Ross Perot" all over again and a cakewalk for obama back to the white house.

It is incumbent upon the GOP to lean more toward the Tea Party beliefs than the other way around. The GOP has lost its way, and they're trying to take the Tea Party with them. Tea Party....HUNKER DOWN and STAND YOUR GROUND!!!!

Trusting a politician is like putting sensitive body parts in a pit bull's mouth.

[cripplecreek]

Can’t allow those filthy citizens to think they should have control now can we?

[joe fonebone]

If the pubs in this state are going to do that, then NO pubs should get a vote, period...might hurt a little, but the clowns that started this crap would be fired the day after the election

[rbmillerjr]

Please note this guy is a ThirdParty fringer.

We’ll fight within the conservative Party, withing the 2 Party system...thank you.

Get active locally and take your Central Committees back.

[bwc2221]

I can see “GOP Insiders” forcing Tea Party members to form a third party.

[marron]

For the most part, the “tea party” is just the rank and file GOP.

We already own them. We may just have to make it very clear this season. We need to make sure we flood the precinct meetings.

Another thing; if O is unopposed, they may have some of their people crossing over to do some troublemakiing. Another reason to make sure we show up in numbers, to make sure the troublemakers are outnumbered.