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Got Tea? GOP Govs Plan Tea Party Sequel



May 12, 2009 18 Comments ›› Erik Wong

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Politico

Hoping to recapture the grassroots energy of last month’s “tea parties,” Republican Govs. Mark Sanford of South Carolina and Rick Perry of Texas will host a tele-town hall Thursday that’s being dubbed “Tea Party 2.0.”

The Republican Governors Association said it is expecting 30,000 people to participate in the town hall, which will take place roughly one month after the much-publicized anti-tax tea party rallies held in hundreds of locations across the country on April 15, the tax filing deadline.

Sanford and Perry will each speak for several minutes before opening up the town hall to up to an hour-long question and answer session.

RGA Executive Director Nick Ayers said that while the effort Thursday will be on a smaller scale than the April tea party rallies, it still represents “a great opportunity to mobilize that support.”

Both Perry and Sanford are favorites among the tax-averse tea party attendees.

Sanford, who attended a tea party in Charleston, gained national notice for his high-profile battle with the White House over his resistance to federal stimulus funds designated for his state. The fate of those funds remains undecided as Sanford continues to battle with state lawmakers over how much of the $350 million in funds allocated for South Carolina his state will accept.

Perry spoke at three tea parties across Texas and helped promote the rallies during numerous radio and television interviews prior to the events.

The Texas governor generated widespread publicity after endorsing a state House resolution reaffirming the state’s sovereignty, a veiled shot at the president’s stimulus package.

“I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state,” Perry said at the time.

Perry drew praise from the conservative media for the move, but was widely derided by the left for suggesting that Texas may consider seceding from the union in protest of the stimulus.

Ayers said both governors “heard the frustration” of the tea party attendees and “understand that our Republican governors are the best positioned to lead on these issues.”

The RGA, Ayers said, is hoping to use the town hall as a springboard for organizing support and fundraising for key gubernatorial races this year in Virginia and New Jersey.

“We don’t have to wait until 2010 to send a message to Democrats in Washington that they are spending too much and borrowing too much,” he said. “We’ll have an opportunity to do that this year.”


  • Vehement

    Chicago Family’s ‘Buy Black’ Experiment Becoming a Nationwide Movement

    ATLANTA — It’s been two months since 2-year-old Cori pulled the gold stud from her left earlobe, and the piercing is threatening to close as her mother, Maggie Anderson, hunts for a replacement.

    It’s not that the earring was all that rare — but finding the right store has become a quest of Quixotic proportions.

    Maggie and John Anderson of Chicago vowed four months ago that for one year, they would try to patronize only black-owned businesses. The “Empowerment Experiment” is the reason John had to suffer for hours with a stomach ache and Maggie no longer gets that brand-name lather when she washes her hair. A grocery trip is a 14-mile odyssey.

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,519965,00.html

    • YERMOM

      that’s racist

    • American Woman

      Well the Middle Easterners do it, the Jews pretty much do it and asians do it. Most all cultures/races do it except white Americans :roll:

      remind me again….whos racist??

    • Lottie

      Its ok to be a racist all people even you can be a racist! Think about it! We will soon be dealing with racist of others like hating others not in agreement with your views. We still have freedom of speech. There are those with views of race, same sex marriage, gays, women, political, and religion. If it is racist if we don’t agree with others views we are called racist.

    • Mrs. Scoot

      I don’t get it. They fought against segregation for all those years, but now they are willingly segregating themselves again? Am I missing something here?

      Martin Luther King should be turning over in his grave over this crap. This is definitely NOT what he died for.

  • Kevin

    Why don’t Whites buy from Whites only then? We’ll see how other buisnesses do after that.

    • Chocolate City Dave

      Lets start with the music business.

  • Hawkerdriver(Pisson the Koran)

    It’s so sad,racism was well on the way out,no matter what Jesse and Al and Louis rant on and on about.Now we have a president who has moved us back to the sixties racially in order to move his agenda forward… There is no end to this scoundrel!! :mad:

  • Ji

    This topic got me to thinkin. (Brain hurts now)
    Not anything against black people who might be here, but gosh in my whole life, (50+) I knew one black guy, who owned a computer business.
    I know black athletes like to open restaurants. But zilch after that.
    Most work for the white guys. Mexicans and asians wont hire them. They prefer to hire their own kind.
    When you consider most are on welfare, well.
    Sorry to say, but every ethnic group is racist. The whites being the least so.
    There are just more whites, this makes them more visible.
    Do you see any ethnic blacks in Japan, Mexico, China?

    • Armando Garcia

      There are a lot of black people in Mexico, their not the same as the privileged Afro-Americans of the United States. Dominicans people speak Spanish. It might surprise you. How many blacks you see that grew up speak Spanish. Other wise I do under stand what you mean.

  • Ji

    You want to see racism go to Africa. Tribalism is alive and well over there.
    Beware if your of the wrong tribe in another tribes territory.

    • YERMOM

      you mean like being a blood in a crypt part of town in LA?

  • Ji

    I am looking to see which state to move to, when the sheet hits the fan.
    So far Montana, S.Carolina, Texas and maybe Louisiana, Oklahoma.
    Other states have to be seeing this. When are they going to chime in.
    And I have worked alongside black people, they are hard workers. But to elect ob just because he is dark skinned???

    • Gaige Mosher

      Most of ‘em just didn’t think. They reacted emotionally. I think many of them will come around as BO continues to fuck up.

    • aboutTObegin

      by then, it will be too late….all of the usurpers goals will have been met and our great great great great grandchildren will be in debt before they are born.

      -aTb

      p.s. JI, you are correct in your assesment, other Countries (I will use Australia as an example) will not tolerate the kind of shit America is forced to tolerate (REVERSE RACISM/DISCRIMINATION) because in Australia, if you do not conform to their laws and way of life, you are out of the Country faster than you can shed a tear!!!! :mad: :mad: :mad:

  • Tim Roesch

    At the extreme risk of introducing an intellectual side to this good discussion…

    Having taught middle school in South Central LA for four years (during the 1992 Loot Shoot and Scoot Event) I can tell you nothing comes close to spinning King in his grave than listening to black students call other black students ‘too black’ or ‘not black enough’. Or hearing Mexican students firmly segregate themselves into Compasenos (sp) and Cuidades (essentially ‘hicks’ and ‘city slickers’).

    Humans are, by nature, racist. We are attracted to (if we are male) mates who have a certain, defined appearance similar to our mothers or (if we are female) to our fathers. This is was determined through use of morph technology and scientific testing. Mothers can ‘smell’ their own babies.

    Humans are highly tribal and, certainly, racist.

    Now, does that mean we should descend to the level of animals and go Hutu/Tutsi (sp) on our collective asses?

    No.

    Racism is something to be overcome or, at least, lived with. It certainly shouldn’t be used as an excuse to kill. Where would we be without the Codetalkers or the Tuskegee Airmen or those brave Japanese-Americans in Europe (forget their designation – 351st?).

    We are stronger together than snarling from the borders of our tribal territories.

    Obama has CERTAINLY not done a damn thing to deal with that issue and that ALONE is enough to despise him for.

  • http://www.dirtydozensbunker.com Sanders

    It will be the death of the TEA Party protests once politicians are allowed to take control of the agenda.

    Keep the governors out of it!

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