Dan Joling of the AP has this story today. I’m humbled by the tea party people in Alaska and all over the country who are reordering their lives, priorities, taking time from their families, studies, businesses to do the work on the ground to put Constitutional conservatives in offices held by not only Dems, but RINO incumbants.
Thank you Alaska.
From our pal Dennis:
I am planning on driving up to 9/12 sometime on Friday September 10 and wanted to know if anyone wanted to carport and/or caravan to somewhere in Virginia late Friday evening and get a room. Then get up in morning and ride the Metro into Washington for the event. I went on the bus last year and would rather go myself with a small group since it took me a week to get over the trip. So if you are interest call or email me at 864-680-3044 or freeclink@aol.com.
Dennis Clinkscales
A message from our Friend Randy in the Seneca Tea Party
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From: RandyS549@aol.com
Friends,
The purpose of this email is to establish the interest in buses for the 9/11 March on DC.
If you are interested, please respond to this email and let me know how many persons you are speaking for and where you would like to catch the bus.
For those in the upstate, I am considering a bus from Anderson if there is enough interest. In addition, let me know if Greenville or Boiling Springs would be the better location for other buses.
Here are some guide lines:
Trip(s) will be boom-a-rang.
Buses will depart after 8:00 PM Friday the 10th, and will return to the departure point between 4:00 and 6:00 AM Sunday morning the 12th.
I anticipate that the cost will be $70/person plus $6/person for a prepaid Metro ticket. It is customary to tip the bus driver. The amount is up to you if you chose to participate.
Additional cost will include breakfast Saturday morning before going into DC and dinner Saturday evening after we leave DC.
I will require all seats to be prepaid, including the Metro pass. Having the pass ahead of time prevents standing in long lines to buy tickets.
If there is adequate interest, I will try to get sufficient buses. I need your input by Wednesday 9/2. I you are interested, please reply to this email, or use the subject line above to help me find the emails from the many I receive each day.
For God, Family and Country,
Randy Simpson
Seneca Tea Party
www.senecateaparty.org
The Columbia Tea Party, The Lexington County 9-12 Project, and The South Carolina Campaign for Liberty are combining to offer a summit in Columbia for the leaders of the various liberty groups (tea party, 912, campaign for liberty etc.) I plan to attend and would like to know if anyone else in the Spartanburg Tea Party is interested in coming along. Each group can have two attendees. If you are interested in stepping up your involvement in the STP and coming with me to learn what other liberty group leaders are doing in their spheres of influence, let me know by emailing info@spartanburgteaparty.org or calling me directly at 864.384.7558. Here are the details for the September 25 event (8 am to 4 pm):
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(Note that there is a $25 fee for the event, includes a buffet lunch)
Its time for the grass roots leaders in South Carolina to come together and pool our collective knowledge! Over the past couple of years, I have learned a lot in the fight to defend liberty. I bet you have too! I want to learn from you and am willing to share what I have learned. Come prepared to share and to learn!
We want to provide an opportunity for the leaders of the various grass roots groups in South Carolina who are fighting to maintain our liberty to meet, build relationships, open lines of communication, and make our organizations more effective.
We think the best way to do this is to meet face to face and learn from each other. We have put together a format that we think will have enough structure to encourage good discussion and participation from all attending without stifling a healthy exchange of the wealth of knowledge, wisdom, and experience each of us have gained.
You are the cream of the crop of liberty fighters in South Carolina. After we spend the day learning from each other we will all be better armed to defend our liberty! We can prepare our people to navigate this storm and make our state a life boat of liberty… even an example to our sister states of how to protect and defend individual liberty against the oppression of an unrestrained government!
Topics to be discussed at our Liberty Summit include:
* Washington isn’t the answer (and they are not omnipotent)
* State legislative opportunities
* The philosophy of liberty / the political sovereignty of man
* “The real nature of politics” and political strategy
* The benefits of multiple groups that network and a decentralized organization
* Nullification and interposition (giving teeth to the 9th and 10th amendments)
* Both mainstream parties are a problem / How to move state politics
With a thanks to Wayne for shooting me this article, someone … someone … needs to put this on their “to research and remind” list for when we retake enough seats in Congress/retake the White House to solve these crazy programs.
This article in USA Today begins:
In Wilkinson County, Miss., a home has been flooded 34 times since 1978. Extraordinary as the damage may be, even more extraordinary is that an insurer has paid claims every time, required no flood proofing, never raised premiums after a claim and vowed to continue insuring the house. Forever.
The home’s value is $69,900. Yet the total insurance payments are nearly 10 times that: $663,000. It’s no surprise that the insurer faces huge financial problems. The insurer? The federal government.
The article goes on to detail specific instances and an overall incomprehensible system of taxpayers subsidizing tens of BILLIONS in insurance to homes which are flooded over and over. This is the epitome of the epidemic of lack of personal responsibility wherein homeowners in historically flood prone areas are allowed to continue their dependence on government programs to bail them at the expense of other American citizens. Sad and tragic situations the first time, perhaps the second. By the third, I’m beginning to feel a lack of compassion and more a feeling that I’m getting “got.”
Keep this on your list of issues to confront the new conservative majority. Tough decisions need to be made in restoring personal accountability, this is just one obvious example.
Lake Wylie Pilot, an interesting publication, has a great story of how the tea parties in Michigan worked diligently, patiently, and with great focus to win several hundred delegate seats recently at their Republican state convention.
From the article:
Now, the activists are positioned for an attempt to push the Michigan GOP further to the right and put hard-core conservatives on November’s general election ballot.
The tea party’s bid to capitalize on its delegate coup, which caught veteran Republican activists by surprise, is an important test for a national movement seeking concrete political impact.
and …
The tea partiers won the positions by running their members in precinct elections, which normally attract few candidates, and then turning out in force at many county GOP meetings to support the winners for state convention slots.
Other than actually running for elected office yourself, becoming a precinct delegate and having a voice in your local county GOP meetings, and the state convention is the surest way to move the Republican platform to the right … and back to conservative, Constitutional principles. Spartanburg precincts will be organizing in the Spring of 2011 and you need to begin talking to your friends in your precinct now about becoming delegates, coming out to support and vote for you. The Spartanburg Tea Party will be providing speakers and resources beginning in 2011 to learn how to join your precinct as a delegate.
Thanks to www.thehopeforamerica.com … which I intend to bookmark.
You may have read this week about the NRSC sending lawyers to Alaska to help RINO Lisa Murkowski in the recount of this close primary where Tea Party endorsed candidate Joe Miller is ahead. It enrages me that John Cornyn has not learned the lessons of Bennett and Crist and is meddling in ANOTHER Republican primary. Below is an email from Tea Party Express with a link to sign a petition to let the NRSC and Cornyn know exactly how you feel about their disgraceful actions in several Republican primaries. Feel free to find the NRSC page and Cornyn’s own email and respond there as well.
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We have learned that the NRSC (National Republican Senatorial Committee) has sent a team of lawyers and political hacks – including the NRSC’s top lawyer – to Alaska to potentially manipulate the vote-counting process in the Alaska GOP Senate race.
Their apparent goal: to help Liberal Sen. Lisa Murkowski steal the election from Conservative Republican, Joe Miller, who currently leads in the vote count.
Joe Miller’s campaign has discovered that operatives are even calling absentee voters and asking them how they voted, purportedly so that they can figure out which absentee ballots to throw out (Joe Miller voters) and which ones to keep (Lisa Murkowski voters).
We need to fight back against this attempt to manipulate the election process. We went through this with Al Franken in Minnesota when the Democrat Party pulled this stunt – we can’t stand for it in Alaska with the Republican Party establishment.
Click here to sign the petition.
Note: You may be asked to make a donation to iPetitions after you sign the petition. You need not do so. This petition is completely FREE and you can choose to ignore the donation request – it is NOT a request for donations by the Tea Party Express, and your signature will count without you making a donation to iPetitions.
