Posted on 04/14/2012 1:40:13 PM PDT by Hildy
SAN ANTONIO, TX -- Three years ago he was merely a face in a very large crowd, standing outside the Alamo on Tax Day as Glenn Beck spoke of drawing a line in the sand.
A businessman, husband, father of five and grandfather of 14, Bruce Baillio bought a miniature "Don't Tread on Me" flag and watched, a little sheepishly and mostly silently, as a movement was born before his eyes. Like most of America, he didn't know then what the tea party was.
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"I think we realized that just getting together ... and yelling and screaming wasn't going to do anything," says the 52-year-old Angius. "The best thing is to get involved at the local level in the party. Move the local party to the right ... and then the local party will move the state and then the state moves the national.
"The tea party was an idea that people like me, who came from nowhere, could get involved ... and you can really make a difference."
Don't forget me when you're famous. Well, more famous.
I don’t think there is a tea party anymore.
I was at that Tea Party event!! Our maintenance folks had our conference about 10 blocks from the Alamo and we got out early that day. What fun we had there. There were American, Texas, "Don't Tread On Me" and "Come and Take It" flags everywhere.
Way to go, Hildy! Kick butt!
I'm so happy to hear you are doing well. Keep up the good work! :-)
Did you join one? If not, therein lies the problem.
Retired at 52? Good for you. If this economy doesn’t pick up, I will be retiring at 98. LOL.
” don’t think there is a tea party anymore. “
The problem is that, what started out as a MOVEMENT of individuals that cut cut across Political Lines and Identifications, has been shoehorned, by the Media abetted by any number of persons (using the term very loosely) purporting to be ‘Leaders’, into the comfortable mold of a monolithic, lock-step, PARTY - a poor-cousin (or ‘crazy uncle’, if you prefer) splinter of the Pubbies...
They’ve even taken away our CAPS and periods — Tea, as in a ‘weak beverage’, instead of T.E.A. standing for Taxed Enough, Already!!
A couple of months ago I went to the 912 Project NJ boards to see what was up.. There hadn’t been a new post since 2010.
I don't want to be famous.. I just want to win my election because I believe I am the best one for this job. I am running against an 80year old Republican who has forgotten he is a Republican. if you want to help me, please visit my website and make a donation. it is so expensive to run a campaign. Hildy For Supervisor FreeRepublic helped me be the person I am today. I can't think of a better way to repay that than to keep Conservative government alive against the onslaught of liberalism in my local government. Thank you.
“I don’t think there is a tea party anymore.”
There is. Unfortunately it is trapped under the carcass of a big, dead, elephant that just keeled over onto it. Lift the elephant corpse away and the Tea Party will be freed. Leave the dead elephant in place much longer and the Tea Party too will suffocate and die.
Retired at 52? Good for you. If this economy doesn’t pick up, I will be retiring at 98. LOL.
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My wife recently asked me where I wanted to retire. First I just boggled at her, then I laughed and laughed.
Good luck in your bid, Hildy. I will check your links.
If you don’t get involved; you won’t win. We need to stand up and quit letting the Left choose for us.
Bring back Duncan Hunter.
Our Tea Party is alive and kickin' here in Florida !
What was the tea party? it was an idea..and idea at we can get back to the values that made America. You don’t get there by having demonstrations and ranting and raving. That would make us no better than the Occupiers. The real Tea Partiers knew, like I did, that you have to be in the system to change the system. I have been working hard towards that end, I love the Republican party, I make no bones about it. But this is not 1980. But we are working hard behind the scenes. I could write a book about what I’ve learned in the last three years involved in AZ State politics. Politics is not for the faint of heart.
“I don’t think there is a tea party anymore.”
They had faded from public view by 2010, but I’m sure they played a part (as individuals and small groups) in handing the Dems’ asses to them in the mid-terms. Part of what attracts people to the TEA Party idea is that there is no “establishment”; they are localized groups born of a tax revolt that probably plays a more important role on the state, county, and municipal level than the federal one.
The mindset is certainly out there (especially since the expiration of the federal “making work pay” credit just added hundreds of dollars to many peoples’ federal income tax bills). I don’t doubt that the TEA Party will play a key role in 2012; it spoke for many independents.
We differ on whether the GOP can be or is worth salvaging. We agree on the ideas the Founders held on ordered liberty, and the tenacity and indeed vitality of those ideas.
We’ll see how things pan out this November, and speak again then. Meanwhile, in all sincerity I wish you every success in your endeavors.
Good summary.
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