Archive for the ‘Tea Party’ Category

Activists who fueled big GOP wins want voices heard in speaker race

Jason Embry at Statesman.com posts an article about activists speaking out about the House Speaker election in Texas, a situation similar to our own SC Speaker election. …conservative activists who helped lift Republicans to a historically large win in last week’s legislative elections don’t have much use for tradition, and some of them are demanding [...]

November 12, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: RINO Alert, State, Tea Party  No Comments

Minutes of Tuesday Nov 9 STP meeting

We’ll have no December meeting. Our January meeting will be on WEDNESDAY January 11 instead of Tuesday due to event at the library every Tuesday in January. We had a discussion about what areas/interest the Spartanburg Tea Party would like to take up in 2011. I offered five areas that I’d like to see our [...]

November 11, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: County, Tea Party, Training/Resources  No Comments

More conversation with Bobby Harrell

As mentioned in previous posts, Bobby Harrell sat down with leaders from tea party and liberty groups across six Upstate counties in October for a conversation which lasted about 90 minutes. The entire conversation was videotaped (by both sides) and those videos are being made available subject by subject. Here is Bobby Harrell discussing committee [...]

November 10, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: RINO Alert, State, Tea Party  One Comment

Speaking of the House

Happy to welcome guest blogger Joshua Finn from the Anderson Tea Party. Since Ben Tillman and the end of Reconstruction in SC, our government in this state has represented a truly unique brand of power, an unfortunate situation for the citizens. I’ve lived my entire life in South Carolina, and until recently had little understanding [...]

November 7, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: State, Tea Party  No Comments

The Modern Day Boston Tea Party

I used to live in Massachusetts and work in downtown Boston, and while I wasn’t as politically astute as I am now, I do know that Republicans and conservatives are almost invisible up there. I have a special place in my heart for conservative patriots in MA, and for DaTechGuy in particular. He is a [...]

November 6, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Tea Party  One Comment

Spartanburg Tea Party meeting Tuesday Nov 9 @ 7:00 PM

We’ll be meeting at our regularly scheduled time/place: 2nd tuesday of the month November 9 7:00 PM Westside Library 525 Oak Grove Road Spartanburg, SC 29301 Our speakers will include: Roger Nutt, who will talk with us about our citizen involvement with County Council Randy English who will discuss his run for office for HD42 [...]

November 5, 2010   Posted in: Tea Party  2 Comments

Remember Doug Hoffman, NY23?

I do. I remember donating to Doug and sending him encouraging emails. I remember how much I hated the elite GOP who worked in the primary for that UBER RINO DeDe Scozzafava, who endorsed the DEMOCRAT when she lost to Doug. I recall how much I learned while watching Doug’s race about political machines, and [...]

November 5, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Congressional, Tea Party  No Comments

A Republican Correction of Errors

Blogger Extraordinaire Melissa Clouthier writing at Liberty Pundits has a great write up on things that the GOP could have done BETTER and won more races yesterday. Not a scathing article, just some lessons learned, but her points are excellent. She talks about the campaigns of Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina, Nevada, Florida, Delaware, etc. GOP [...]

November 3, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: National, Tea Party  No Comments

A short history of a local tea party

Dianne from the Laurens County Tea Party sent an email to her members this morning. I found it inspiring and encouraging and asked her if I could share it with you. Here it is, you will have to click -read the rest of this entry- to find the rest of the posting, it is quite [...]

November 3, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Tea Party  No Comments

inspiring post by a newly awakened activist

At Redstate, vmo335 gives a short testimony of his 9 month journey to a day long commitment to poll watching on Tuesday. Spartanburg Tea Party … take a look, and if you can let me know if you’d like to help at the polls at Tuesday, there are several opportunities. Call me at 864.384.7558. On [...]

October 31, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Tea Party, Training/Resources  One Comment