Archive for July, 2010

Spartanburg Tea Party resumes monthly meetings

We took a couple months off this summer to recover from the primaries. Beginning in August, we’ll resume our monthly meetings, which will be held on the second Tuesday of each month at 7:00 PM at the Westside Library, located at 525 Oak Grove Road, Spartanburg, SC 29301. The next 3 meeting dates are: August [...]

July 13, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

County Council Meeting Monday July 19

Reminder that Monday is the monthly County Council meeting, I’m encouraging members of the Spartanburg Tea Party to begin attending these meetings. Gaye pointed out to me after last week’s post that while the meetings begin at 5:30 PM, the Committee Meetings begin at 3:30, and those meetings are really where the work gets done. [...]

July 13, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Land use/eminent domain and a disturbing stat in Utah

21.2% That’s how much of Utah’s land is privately owned. Eric Shawn of FoxNews writes a revealing article about the federal government’s control of land in Utah. The good news? Utah is fighting back. {There is} a new state law, signed by Republican Governor Gary Herbert, that calls for the state to use the power [...]

July 11, 2010   Posted in: National  No Comments

August 7 Anti-Illegal Immigration Rally in Columbia

ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION RALLY WHY YOUR PRESENCE IS NEEDED: TO SUPPORT: South Carolina bill *S 1446 will allow law officials to ask for proof of citizenship status if that person is suspected to be in the U.S. illegally, after said person is suspected of committing a crime. We, South Carolinians need to show our support of [...]

July 11, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Immigration, State, Tea Party  One Comment

Will the SCGOP follow their own platform re: racism?

On June 26 the SCGOP leadership including SCGOP Chair Karen Floyd and the Executive Committeemen from across the state met for their quarterly meeting. Patrick Hadden, first vice chair was intending to make a motion calling for Senator Jake Knotts’ resignation from the Republican Party. On June 3, on Wesley Donehue’s Internet program (Donehue heads [...]

July 9, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: RINO Alert, State, Tea Party  No Comments

Spartanburg County Council meeting July 19, 5:30 pm

We should begin going to the County Council meetings each month, tea party. Involvement in the most local of government is really our duty … we are the watchers of our elected officials. We need to know what is on their agenda, what votes they are taking, what they are discussing. For those of us [...]

July 8, 2010   Posted in: Tea Party  No Comments

Tea Party wins Prize!

The Salvatori Prize for American Citizenship was awarded by the Heritage Foundation this year to … the Tea Party Movement! THAT’S YOU! anyone who has rallied, written, spoken out, sent letters, made phones, worked on campaigns, and kept the pressure on Columbia and Washington … CONGRATULATIONS! The Spartanburg Tea Party received a lovely certificate and [...]

July 8, 2010   Posted in: Tea Party  No Comments

All 50 states donate to AZ defense fund!

Paul Davenport of AP with a killer article of Americans in all 50 states support Arizona’s immigration law financially. Retirees and other residents from all over the country were among those who donated nearly $500,000 to help Arizona defend its immigration enforcement law, with most chipping in $100 or less. Donors contacted by the AP [...]

July 8, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: National  One Comment

cause it’s only a second :)

Survey Link O.K. Everyone!! Here is your chance to, at least silently, vent. Hope you take the opportunity. MSNBC has been viciously critical of conservative Americans and conservative causes. They have an online poll asking if Arizona ‘s immigration law should be on the books. I think MSNBC will be shocked at America ‘s response… [...]

July 8, 2010   Posted in: National  No Comments

Another Obama Recess Appointment

Mike Lillis at TheHill.com gives us the scoop on Obama’s recess appointment of Donald Berwick to head Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. “As if shoving a trillion-dollar government takeover of healthcare down the throat of a disapproving American public wasn’t enough, apparently the Obama administration intends to arrogantly circumvent the American people yet again [...]

July 7, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: National  No Comments