September 2011
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Koch To Sue Over Redistricting
Amplify’d from www.qgazette.comAt an Assembly hearing on the state legislature’s plan to draw new legislative lines for the 2010 elections and for 10 years beyond that, former Mayor Ed Koch got into an argument with the lawmaker officiating at the hearing and threatened to go into court to block the Assembly/state senate plan.Koch is on record as favoring an independent committee to do the...
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Tea Party group slams online copyright bill
Amplify’d from thehill.comTHE LEDE: The opposition to Sen. Patrick Leahy’s (D-Vt.) Protect IP or PIPA Act got a lot broader this weekend when the Tea Party Patriots came out against the legislation on Facebook. The conservative umbrella group has almost 850,000 supporters on Facebook and linked to an editorial from Demand Progress executive director David Segal and Don’t Censor the Net...
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Amazing! Fox News Dials Back 'Tea Party Talk'
Amplify’d from www.mediapost.comIn “a ‘course correction,’ quietly adopted at Fox over the last year,” the network, guided by CEO Roger Ailes, is toning down its conservative image and dialing back “the Tea Party talk,” writes Howard Kurtz. For one example, there’s the network’s behavior at last week’s Republican candidates’ debate....
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Smith Kicks Off U.S. Senate Campaign
Amplify’d from www.politicspa.comCoal industry veteran and former Tea Party leader Tom Smith officially announced his U.S. Senate candidacy Tuesday morning in a fly-around tour of the state.“I am humbled and encouraged by the support I have received in my campaign, from Republicans … and also from Democrats and Independents who believe it may be time for Mr. Smith to go to Washington.”Harrisburg...
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FreedomWorks to Host Tea Party Debt Commission...
Amplify’d from www.marketwatch.comThis week, FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe and
select staffers will host four Tea Party Debt Commission (TPDC) field
hearings across the state of Utah. Senator Mike Lee will join his
constituents for the final field hearing in Provo, UT to participate in
the ongoing discussion over how to rein in government spending. Local
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Herman Cain: Calling Tea Party 'racist' is...
Amplify’d from today.msnbc.msn.comAfter Morgan Freeman criticized the Tea Party and called their actions “racist,” Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is firing back … with compliments! Cain made an appearance on Fox’s Your World with Neil Cavuto, where he addressed Freeman’s remarks. “Well, first of all, I doubt if Morgan Freeman, with all due...
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Tea Party Convention →
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Tea party groups endorse Lugar challenger Mourdock
Amplify’d from www.chron.comTea party groups overwhelmingly endorsed state treasurer Richard Mourdock on Saturday for next year’s Indiana Senate race, casting all but one vote for the tea party favorite who’s seeking to deny Republican Sen. Richard Lugar a seventh term.Members of 55 tea party groups gathered in Greenfield, east of Indianapolis, for the 2 1/2-hour convention and a...
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Tea Party Group to Form Super PAC
Amplify’d from thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.comThe Tea Party-linked conservative group FreedomWorks will create a Super PAC with the goal of raising $20 million during the 2012 election cycle, exploiting shifts in campaign law that permit independent groups to collect and spend unlimited amounts of money advocating for and against candidates.But in a twist, the new group will raise its money in...
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A negative attitude toward the tea party
Amplify’d from www.watertowndailytimes.comWe have to thank Rep. Maxine Waters and Jimmy Hoffa Jr. Their negative attitude toward the tea party made headline news. It brought publicity to the tea party concept. I’m confident the majority of our population has little faith in the credibility of Ms. Waters or Mr. Hoffa. Testimony suggesting the tea parties can “go to hell” is typical of what makes...
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Tea Party vs. Administration: Whos to Blame for... →
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Some Abilene Tea Partiers cool on Perry
Amplify’d from www.reporternews.comGov. Rick Perry may have risen to the top of Republican presidential polls on the strength of his appeal to Tea Party constituents, but he has a ways to go before convincing local Tea Partiers that he’s the man for the job.“I don’t think he’s going to do well in Texas,” said Pat Hippely, president of the Taylor County Tea Party,...
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FreedomWorks to Host Tea Party Debt Commission...
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WHAT: On the weekend of the Florida CPAC Convention, FreedomWorks
Chairman Dick Armey, President Matt Kibbe and select staffers will host
the second official Tea Party Debt Commission field hearing in Orlando,
Florida. Local activists are expected to attend, and encouraged to bring
their own proposals for specific cuts to the...
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Tea party activists at home chide Perry on...
Amplify’d from www.bnd.comWhile Rick Perry woos tea party supporters in the early primary states, some of their confederates back home have a message from Texas: They’re not happy with the governor on immigration. Texas tea party advocates chided Perry on Monday over lawmakers’ failure to enact a so-called sanctuary city bill that would prevent municipal policies that keep police...
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How Far Can Ron Paul Go?
Amplify’d from www.weeklystandard.comSince Ron Paul arrived in Washington more than 30 years ago, he has been spreading the same message of personal freedom and limited government, based on the Constitution and Austrian economics. Sound familiar? It should—Paul’s philosophy shares the same foundation that the Tea Party is built from.Much of Paul’s platform aligns with the populist Tea Party...
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Tea Party pushes schools to teach Constitution,...
Amplify’d from www.theunion.comMembers of the Nevada County Tea Party Patriots seek to ensure other area schools fall in line this week with a federal law requiring schools to teach some sort of educational program on Constitution Day related to the United States Constitution.Public Law 108-447 directs “(e)ach educational institution that receives federal funds … shall hold an educational program...
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Ron Paul Says His Campaign Exceeds His Own...
Amplify’d from www.pbs.orgTexas Congressman Ron Paul stands out in the Republican 2012 presidential primary field for his strict libertarian politics, his opposition to an interventionist foreign policy and his steadfast commitment to educating the public about what he sees as the dangerous policies of a central bank and the U.S. dollar not being tied to the price of gold.And Paul doesn’t...
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Tea Party pressures Perry on immigrants →
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Tea Party Invites Presidential Candidates to...
Amplify’d from www.nbcchicago.comAmbitious Republicans may want to avoid Schaumburg the last weekend of this month. TeaCon 2011, a gathering of Tea Party activists from all over the Midwest, is taking place at the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel & Convention Center on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1. Tickets for the two-day conference start at $159.TeaCon organizers have invited all the Republican...
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Tea party, conservative groups call on Congress to...
Amplify’d from michiganmessenger.comWith legislation pending both in the U.S. Congress and the Michigan House of Representatives to require employers to use a new federal immigration database, even conservative and Tea Party groups are speaking out against the idea.
An open letter from leaders of the groups Take Back Washington, Tea Party Nation, Downsize DC, GOProud, the D.C. Tea Party and...
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George Will: The tea party is the Republican...
Amplify’d from www.rawstory.comConservative columnist George Will says that Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry doesn’t need to worry about the “Republican establishment” derailing his campaign because they have been co-opted by the tea party.“A lot of establishment Republicans worrying that [Perry] might give the plot away, do you think that is that a legitimate concern or can he come up...
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26-year-old Tea Party member challenges Boehner in...
Amplify’d from westchester.fox19.comDavid Lewis, a 2009 UC grad who’s worked at a local bank for the past six years, is taking on the arduous task of challenging Speaker John Boehner in the 8th Congressional District the Republican primary.“What made me want to run against Speaker Bohener, was that I found out that his words were empty rhetoric” Lewis said.“I want to let...
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Tea party vision closer to Articles of...
Amplify’d from blog.nj.comMany who associate themselves with the tea party movement say their beliefs are rooted in the original principles of the Constitution. Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann describes herself a “constitutional conservative.” Few have asked precisely what that means. A close inspection of Bachmann’s views, however, reveals a vision of government closer to the...
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A Tea Party State of Mind
Amplify’d from canadafreepress.comThe recent election of Republican Bob Turner to the 9th Congressional District seat in New York represents a pivotal event in American politics in the second decade of the 21st century. We are nearly three years into the presidency of Barack Obama and, it seems, the electorate has grown less and less enamored with the far-left policies of the Democrat agenda in...
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U.S. Day of Rage planned for Saturday — an Arab...
Amplify’d from www.washingtonpost.comThousands of people from across the country are planning to converge on Wall Street this Saturday to protest America’s “corrupt democratic process” and the use of corporate money in American elections.Perhaps. Just last month, professor of sociology David Meyer, who wrote “The Politics of Protest: Social Movements in America,” wrote a piece in the Post’s Sunday...
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Kosher Tea Celebrates Victory in NY-9 Special...
Amplify’d from www.marketwatch.comToday, FreedomWorks’ Kosher Tea campaign celebrates fiscal conservative
Bob Turner’s victory in the NY-9 Special Election, a district with a
Jewish population of 40 percent, and three Democrats for every one
registered Republican voter.
“This underdog victory is evidence that Jewish voters are saying no to
the Obama...
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The 'gruesome' video game that kills off zombie...
Amplify’d from theweek.comThe video: A new free video game lets players club, shoot, or otherwise destroy post-apocalyptic zombie versions of conservatives and Fox News personalities like Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Newt Gingrich, Sean Hannity, and Bill O’Reilly. Not all the target zombies are celebrities — you can also decimate undead creatures with generic right-wing names like “Pissed...
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Even at tea party debate, Perry likely to be on...
Amplify’d from www.beaumontenterprise.comThe tea party movement is officially welcomed into the Republican mainstream on Monday as the first presidential debate sponsored by a tea party group takes place in Tampa, Fla.Monday night’s nationally televised encounter at the Florida State Fairgrounds, co-sponsored by the Tea Party Express and CNN, is likely to highlight the anti-government,...
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Newsflash: Leftist Professors Think Tea Party Is...
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The enlightened scholars of the American Political Association gathered for a convention during Labor Day Weekend, and wouldn’t you know it, the degreed wizards agree: Tea Party Americans are bigots.
While last week’s report in the Washington Times is hardly unique, it suggests Tea Party Americans can expect the mainstream media and its lefitst allies to...
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Tea Party favorite Herman Cain: Racism 'doesn't...
Amplify’d from am.blogs.cnn.comAlthough the latest CNN/ORC poll has presidential hopeful and former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain polling at just 6%, he has strong support in the Tea Party, the movement that was extremely influential in last year’s GOP primaries in the midterm elections that helped the Republicans win back control of the House of Representatives.“My...
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Tea party is average Americans of all stripes...
Amplify’d from www.tcpalm.comTea party is average Americans of all stripes worried about too-big governmentIn response to Lawrence J. Pius, Sept. 6 letter, “Massaging feet of well-heeled”: First let me inform him that while I am conservative, I am not a member of the tea party, nor do I have a Confederate flag in my car window.Had he done a little homework, he would have found that...
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That’s what the Tea Party is about
Amplify’d from www.vindy.comI was stunned to read the let- ter last Sunday in which the writer stated: “A grass-roots movement is needed to restore our government to one that is of the people, by the people and for the people.” This is precisely what the TEA Party is. It was founded in April of 2009 spearheaded by millionaire Sal Russo, a former aide to Ronald Reagan. On September 12, 2009, nearly...
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What the tea party is — and isn’t
Amplify’d from www.washingtonpost.comThat the tea party sprang to life during Obama’s presidency should have been less surprising than it was. According to Alan Abramowitz of Emory University, “The tea party movement can best be understood in the context of the long-term growth of partisan-ideological polarization within the American electorate and especially the growing conservatism of the...
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Let tea partyers govern
Amplify’d from www.spokesman.com I have a dream that in the 2012 elections the extremely conservative Republican Party wins veto-proof majorities in the House and the Senate and that they elect a tea party conservative Republican as president. Then all of America and all of the peoples of the nations of the world will have the opportunity to behold the vision of America that the conservative...
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Psychoanalyzing the tea party with Stan Peele and... →
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NY-09: House Majority PAC Ad Against Tea Party... →
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Tea Party Rejects Global Warming
Amplify’d from www.thenewamerican.comMost members of the Tea Party movement reject the idea that global warming is real, according to a new survey conducted by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication and George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication. Its report, Politics and Global Warming, states 53 percent of Tea Party members say global warming is not...
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Tea Party responds to Obama speech
Amplify’d from www.mesquitelocalnews.comFriday (Sept. 9) the Tea Party Patriots, the nation’s largest tea party organization, criticized the president for promoting an agenda of government spending and economic policies which have not and will not lead to job creation. “The president seems to believe that small businesses hire new workers based on a promise of tax breaks or the hope that new...
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The Tea Party and the GOP primary electorate
Amplify’d from www.washingtonpost.comThe Post’s polling guru Peyton M. Craighill has some interesting stats on the makeup of the Republican primary electorate. The most recent Post/ABC News poll of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents who are registered to vote shows this breakdown for Tea Party supporters:— 80 percent support the Tea Party (28 percent support it strongly, while 53 percent...
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The tea 'party'
Amplify’d from www.hutchnews.comThe American tea party has a different reason for existence in that it does not wish to overthrow the government but to redress the corruption that has engulfed the governmental system. On the other hand, they do share the lack of a specific stated goal and are subject to the error of thinking (as the other uprisings do) that “any enemy of my enemy is my...
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Video Game Allows Frustrated Libs Chance to Kill...
Amplify’d from www.infowars.comFollowing Teamster Jimmy Hoffa’s comments that liberals should “take out” the Tea Party, a company has created a video game centered around slaughtering establishment political figures who have aligned themselves with the hijacked Tea Party.“Tea Party Zombies Must Die” was created by StarvingEyes Advergaming, an advertising agency that boasts Meow Mix and Pepsi as...
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Jimmy Hoffa won't apologize for tea party comments
Amplify’d from www.politico.comA defiant Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa insisted Tuesday that he would “never apologize” for his heated comments against the tea party movement.Hoffa’s statement came after a Labor Day rally in which he called for workers to “take these son-of-a-bitches out” in 2012.He had also said that the right was engaging on a “war on workers” and that teamsters would...
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Teamster Hoffa's Anti-Tea Party War Cry Fires Up...
Amplify’d from www.npr.orgOf course, some of those he riled up were on the other side of the ideological spectrum. Hoffa created what looks right now at least like a tempest in a Tea (Party) pot by using some undeniably belligerent, anti-Tea Party language.Tea Party activists and conservatives have jumped on this, accusing Hoffa of inciting violence against them. They’re demanding that Obama...
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What the Left Can Learn From the Tea Party
Amplify’d from reason.comThe success of the Tea Party movement offers the left a
blueprint for change. For decades politicians like Boehner trampled
on the conservative tradition of limited government. Obama and the
Democratic establishment likewise have disrespected several core
traditions of the American left. The best way to reassert those
values is not by staying on the Democratic reservation...
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G.O.P. Hopefuls Vying for Tea Party’s Support
Amplify’d from www.nytimes.comThe leading Republican presidential candidates spent Labor Day declaring their fealty to limited government as they sought to demonstrate credibility with a Tea Party movement that has seized the political energy of their party.The candidates also strongly criticized President Obama’s economic policies as they prepared for a televised debate in California on Wednesday...
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Romney doesn’t mention ‘tea party’ during speech...
Amplify’d from www.rawstory.comRepublican presidential candidate Mitt Romney spoke at a Tea Party Express event in Concord, New Hampshire Sunday but two words were missing from his speech: “tea” and “party.”“I haven’t spent my whole life in politics. As a matter of fact, of the people running for office, I don’t know that there are many who have less years in politics than me,” Romney told the...
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Tea Party Takes On Utah's Last Congressional Dem
Amplify’d from motherjones.comUtah is one of the nation’s most conservative states. Barack Obama won only 34 percent of the vote there in 2008. The Mormon-dominated western outpost, which also happens to be my home state, hasn’t had a Democratic senator in about 40 years. It hasn’t had a Democratic governor since 1985. So in that climate, Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson is a bit of...
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Romney appearance at Tea Party rally draws protest
Amplify’d from www.boston.comMore than 25 protesters turned out before a Tea Party Express rally this evening to protest not President Obama, but Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.“We do not need leadership that puts their finger up, sees which way the wind’s blowing and then all of a sudden changes their mind and goes back in that direction,” Tim Carter, a leader of the Lakes Region...
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Interview with Jim DeMint →
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“The Tea Party Movement is part of this noble...
Amplify’d from netnewsledger.comThe Tea Party was borne of this urgency. It’s the same sense of urgency that propelled the Sons of Liberty during the Revolution. It’s the same sense of urgency that propelled the Abolitionists before the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement during the 20th Century. The Tea Party Movement is part of this noble American tradition. This movement isn’t simply a...
