Archive for June, 2011

RINO Hunt is coming to Spartanburg!

Harry Kibler, founder of RINO Hunt and a great friend of everyone in the liberty movement has put a call out to his troops and they are coming to Spartanburg! Actually there are many RINO Hunt members who already live in Spartanburg, so we’ll just be welcoming some more of our colleagues in. Here’s Harry’s [...]

June 15, 2011  Tags: ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Wisconsin Teacher Unions after the ruling

If you weren’t keeping up all along, this article by Karen Herzog and Tom Tolan at Journal Sentinel Online explains why the unions fought so long and so ugly so long in Wisconsin the past few months. Teachers unions are asking teachers for bank account information so their union dues can automatically be deducted once [...]

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News from Texas on the Light Bulb Resistance Movement

Andrea Seffens at FreedomWorks writes this great article on Texas passing their version of the light bulb freedom act! The bill allows incandescent light bulbs made in Texas to be sold within the state, working around President George W. Bush’s 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act. The 2007 act would prevent the manufacture and sale [...]

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Monday night, Bachmann pictures, and Chad Connelly

If you attended the Michele Bachmann event a few months ago and got your picture taken with Rep. Bachmann they are ready! You can pick them up Monday night at the Palmetto House Republican Women’s meeting at the Marriott, meeting begins at 7:00 PM. The guest for the event will be SCGOP Chairman Chad Connelly. [...]

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South Carolina Policy Council: Restructuring Done Right

Sometimes I have to leave the pondering and dissecting to others, my brain gets too full of other stuff. Or there’s math. This new report by the South Carolina Policy Council on government restructuring in South Carolina is one of those times! There is a tremendous amount of research and data that will take me [...]

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Rita Allison at “Let’s Talk Spartanburg”

Several of you have called or emailed asking if any of the Spartanburg Six are doing any town halls. Rita Allison will be speaking Monday June 20 at noon at Wades. Our pal Paul hosts a “Let’s Talk Spartanburg” series and Rita is their guest Monday, and I’m assuming she’ll be taking questions. Open to [...]

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“I ain’t blind and I don’t like what I think I see”

To get you psyched for Saturday’s “Taking it to the Streets” event … and for the record, I prefer the McDonald-less Doobies. They are in my top 5 all time fav bands. We’ll be meeting at 8:30 am in the empty lot behind the McDonalds at 1917 Boiling Springs Road (which is the same road [...]

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Doug Brannon gets a fact check

Last Friday night Doug Brannon spent some time here on the Spartanburg Tea Party blog making some points about the school choice bill in the comment section. Well great! It’s a start! It would have been a bit more relevant had Doug chosen to debate these points among his peers on the House floor, but [...]

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It’s the Robots’ Fault!

Barack Obama yesterday proved he is the clueless tool that many of us suspected from the beginning. He has floundered and pontificated and cast blame while our economy has been destroyed, and his latest solution is to blame … robots. This is what Obama said yesterday: “The other thing that happened,” the president claimed in [...]

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Lexington County Council – the People are Coming for You

The Lexington County Council which is 100% Republican voted last night to raise taxes. Here are two responses from our pals Wes Howard and Talbert Black. It seems that the citizens in Lexington County wasted NO TIME last night after the vote in meeting up across the street and organizing neighborhood planning groups to build [...]

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