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http://www.teapartypatriots.org/

Here is something on the Tea Party's in general..

Tea party movement hit by infighting ahead of first convention

Anarchic but powerful grassroot conservative movement gathers amid recriminations over cost and organisation of event

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* Ed Pilkington in New York
* guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 2 February 2010 18.33 GMT
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Demonstrators protest Obama's healthcare reform plan

Demonstrators take part in march in Washington organised by a tea-party group in protest against Barack Obama's healthcare reform plan. Photograph: Rex Features

A gathering of angry grassroot conservatives billed as the first national convention of the anarchic but increasingly Â*powerful tea party movement that is sweeping the US gets under way on Thursday amid recriminations about its cost and organisation.

Hundreds of delegates from groups with names such as SurgeUSA and Smart Girl Politics are expected to descend on a hotel on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee, to share notes and plot future strategy. There will be celebration in the air following recent successes, most notably the electoral victory last month of the Republican Scott Brown to Edward Kennedy's former Senate seat in Massachusetts.

But the convention, calling itself Tea Party Nation, has been mired in infighting even before it begins, a sign perhaps that the movement, as it approaches its first birthday, is creaking at the seams.

Several groups and speakers have pulled out of the event in protest against the $549 (£344) ticket price. There have also been complaints about the top-down style in which the convention has been organised, which critics say is wholly out of keeping with this bottom-up phenomenon.

"This is an attempt by a national leadership to hijack the tea party movement in order to maintain control and stay in power," said Philip Glass, head of the National Precinct Alliance, which has withdrawn from the convention.

A third bone of contention has been the invitation to Sarah Palin, the former Republican vice-presidential candidate, to make Saturday night's keynote speech in return for a reported fee of $115,000. "If you have someone acting as if they are a great messiah and Hollywood figure, I have a problem with that," said Glass.

The tea party movement first burst on to the national scene in the US on 27 February last year, with local, spontaneously organised and internet-fuelled protests against what participants perceived as big government and its excessive spending. Since then the rapid rise of the movement has surprised even its own members.

"Lightbulbs are turning on across the country," said Glass. "There are a lot of angry people who want to see change."

Much of that anger is directed against the Democrats and, in particular, the president, Barack Obama, who is widely seen within the movement as an imposter and socialist.

"Obama is listening to the most extreme leftwing factions of the Democratic party rather than to the American people, and that makes us grab for our pitchforks and torches," said Mark Williams of the Tea Party Express.

His group gave $380,000 to Brown's Massachusetts campaign. Next month the group will be sending its by now-famous bus back on the road, stopping off in small towns across America, starting on 27 March in Searchlight, Nevada, home of the Democratic senate leader, Harry Reid.

Williams said the public displays of rancour that had broken out within the tea party movement over the Nashville convention was to be expected, given "the nature of who we are".

The threat the movement poses to the Democrats, as demonstrated in Massachusetts, is that it can pull back from Obama the independent swing voters who put him into the White House.

"Obama won in 2008 because he held a sizeable majority of independent voters – precisely the people who are now forming the tea-party movement," said Peter Brown, a pollster at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut.

The Republican establishment has reason to be fearful too. The party old guard is held in equal contempt by many activists who blame them for starting the era of big government under George Bush's presidency.

"The entrenched leadership of the Republican party is every bit a part of the problem as the Democrats," Williams said.

Tea-party groups have begun to use their new-found muscle to unseat Republicans who they feel are not sufficiently committed to cutting taxes and waging a war on government. The National Precinct Alliance, for instance, uses the internet to elect its own candidates at neighbourhood level; they then elect the county boards which in turn nominate state and congressional candidates, so that from tiny grains of sand a revolution builds.

The impact is already being felt at national level. The Republican National Committee at its annual conference in Hawaii last week was forced to adopt a rule urging party leaders to support candidates who can prove their rightwing credentials by passing 10 criteria set by the tea-party movement. A demand that the 10 points should be made a compulsory litmus test was narrowly averted.

With the stakes already high, some activists perceive an attempt on the part of the Republican elite to appropriate the movement. But Jenny Beth Martin, an organiser of the Tea Party Patriots, has this warning: "Anyone who thinks they can hijack the movement simply doesn't understand it. This is about the energy of the people – you can funnel it, but you cannot take it over."
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The term tea party, a reference to the Boston Tea Party, is credited to a commentator on CNBC, Rick Santelli, who launched a tirade last February against the Obama administration's financial plans and called for a display of outrage which he called a Chicago tea party. The idea went viral, with tea party websites sprouting up and the first nationwide tea party protest eight days later. In contrast to the old alliance of the religious right, tea party activists tend to be fired up by economic goals such as low taxes and free markets than by social issues such as abortion.

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Kathyet

Originally Posted by kathyet

Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeach

No 51% 58591

Yes 36% 41688

Don't know 13% 14813

Total votes: 115092

Psalm 91

Who would sign a poll at CNN

Kathyet

Apparently 115,092 people

Kathyet

Apparently kathyet.

The different Tea Party groups surely have many members opposed to amnesty. The free services, benefits, housing, food stamps, welfare, education costs, etc. weigh heavy on the states and the nation as a whole. Millions in most states, billions in California, and possibly a few others.

So it is up to us, and to those who are attending, emailing, associating with the Tea Party movement, to say that the loss of those billions, plus the billions of remittances going to other nations, plus the loss of millions of jobs, is a very good reason to be strong against illegal immigration. It just makes sense, and anyone differing from this view is not sincere in cries for spending to end, for government takeover to stop, and if they are Republicans, illegal aliens will be Democrats when they are voters. Open borders, more illegal alien families, more lost jobs to Americans, it will be a bigger mess.

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GeorgiaPeach

In theory the Tea Party idea is good but it is up to us, and to each of us in our respective States, to pay attention to who is running and to vote accordingly. You have to start in your home State.

If the "Tea Party" being a national organization adheres to the basic principles of our constitution, on spending, and etc it can do good things...Having a "National Tea Party" to sphere head things pass information help with fund raising, with rallys, help with the ins and outs of election processes etc, it could be very helpful, at least I am thinking so.

I think since there are more independents than any other Party the Independents should be able to sway most elections. That is what has happened in Boston and a few other places.. right now I see a lot of Republicans jumping on the "Tea Party" wagon and that isn't a totally bad thing if they follow the Constitution and Oath of Office... if not kick them all out again and again and again, well you get the idea I yell that all the time.

If Democrats run or if Republicans run, or if the "Tea Party" groups put up there own people to run, so what, as long as they all will adhere to the American peoples wishes, follow the Constitution, be fiscally responsible, take the Oath of Office and follow it, etc..No matter what..It still has to start locally then it will and can mushroom to more...if we let this 2 party system separate us all they will divide and conquer us. So we should infiltrate them...

The Tea party has been on Cspan 1 this morning and will be on again later..with Sara Palin as a speaker she is on the band wagon too...they are having a convention this weekend...to me as long as it is all about "We the People" for the People they have my attention..other wise....

this is from the Tea Party Patriots site... it is slow to load and has some of the ideas voted on from some of the members

Contract From America Nearing Phase 2
During the past several months, hundreds of thousands of members of the free-market, limited government activist community has collected and debated hundreds of potential solutions to our nation’s most pressing problems at www.contractfromamerica.com. We thank you for all your help! The final date for submitting ideas on this site is January 24, 2010.

Right now, we are in the process of narrowing down all the ideas submitted, and we want you to be part of the process. Please go to www.spiritof94.org, and help us by taking the survey. This survey is the next step in a process that will help us identify 20 of the most important issues that resonate with the grassroots community. Following your help finalizing the list, an online vote will be held in February and March, with the final list of 10-12 ideas being unveiled at the April 15th rallies as the Contract from America.

This Contract from America will have a strong grassroots narrative and will create a reform-minded platform led by a broad-based coalition of grassroots activists, public policy organizations, and new media leaders.

Contract From America

http://www.contractfromamerica.com/Idea.aspx


Kathyet

We really need a great conservative news outlet online. It can be done, but it will need money to start, tnen advertisers, as in Talk Radio, will jump on board.

So which TEA Party is which?

http://www.teaparty.org/

or

http://www.teapartypatriots.org/

or

http://www.the912project.com/

I get crap from all of them but this one is the only one I have been too

http://houstontps.org/

or was it this one.......

http://houstonteapartypatriots.org/

or this one

http://www.teaparty.org/houston.html

Hey I am getting confused now.

Originally Posted by bigtex

So which TEA Party is which?

http://www.teaparty.org/

or

http://www.teapartypatriots.org/

or

http://www.the912project.com/

I get crap from all of them but this one is the only one I have been too

http://houstontps.org/

or was it this one.......

http://houstonteapartypatriots.org/

or this one

http://www.teaparty.org/houston.html

Hey I am getting confused now.

I know it is confusing and the political parties are trying to keep that going you just have to check them all out.

This is from Judicial Watch they were at this Tea Party.
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Judicial Watch Sponsors National Tea Party Convention, February 4-6, 2010

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Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton Slated to Address Convention
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Washington, DC -- January 22, 2010

Judicial Watch, the non-partisan public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it will serve as a major sponsor for the upcoming National Tea Party Convention to be held February 4-6, 2010, at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton will also address the convention on how to uncover and combat government corruption. Former Alaska Governor and 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin is set to provide the keynote address.

The purpose of the convention is to bring “Tea Party Movement leaders together from around the nation for the purpose of networking and supporting the movement’s multiple organizations’ principal goals.â€

I think http://www.teapartypatriots.org/ is the original 9/12 project, the real tea party movement.