Tea Parties Go On Offensive, Begin Taking Legal Action Against Cities Enabling #OccupyWallStreet Mobs at Pat Dollard

Tea Parties Go On Offensive, Begin Taking Legal Action Against Cities Enabling #OccupyWallStreet Mobs

November 8th, 2011 (10) Posted By Toro520.

Richmond, Va. — The Richmond tea party is demanding a refund of about $10,000 from the city, claiming it unfairly charged them for rallies while allowing the Occupy protesters to use the same space for several weeks for free.

The political organization is sending the city an invoice for the charges incurred for three rallies held in Kanawha Plaza over the past three years. The Occupy protesters have been camped in the plaza since Oct. 15.

Richmond Tea Party spokeswoman Colleen Owens says it’s not fair that her group had to pay fees for permits, portable toilets, police presence and emergency personnel. The group also had to purchase a $1 million insurance policy.

Tea party groups across the nation have raised similar concerns since the protests spread from New York earlier this month.

More from Atlanta:

Local Tea Party organizers are threatening to sue the city of Atlanta, saying Mayor Kasim Reed has given special treatment to Occupy Atlanta protesters.

Atlanta Tea Party co-founder Julianne Thompson told Channel 2 Action News that the group, which supports limited taxes and reduced government deficits, has made a request in writing after being denied permission to hold an event downtown because city officials said there was too much red tape and cost involved.

“I think it’s very sad that in the city of Atlanta, we seem to have a mayor who picks and chooses who receives special rights regarding free speech — based on his political ideology,” Thompson told Channel 2.

Debbie Dooley, national coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots, told the AJC that the group had inquired about renting Woodruff Park or Centennial Olympic park but had decided against it due to fees, red tape and restrictions.

If Tea Party members had used civil disobedience, “we would have been removed and arrested,” Dooley said.

“We feel like the mayor is selectively deciding who can use the parks,” she said.

The Tea Party members say Reed should grant them a special executive order — as he did for Occupy Atlanta — allowing an outdoor event last past 11 p.m.

Reed gave a brief response Tuesday. “I think we’ll handle it on a case-by-case basis,” he said.

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Hawkerdriver

The OWS movement are the locusts the Bible speaks of. Go Tea Party! Sue the hell out of all these Sodomite polititians and their sympathaizers. If every disgusted patriot in this country would send in a coupla dollars for legal fees,we might be able to clean out this vermin..Where do I send a check ?

Anonymous

I have more lead than silver. I’m all for spending it on cleaning up this OWS mess.
http://profiles.google.com/thewondervenus Laura Chandler

Wow. I’ll be sure to send your threats to the cops.
http://profiles.google.com/thewondervenus Laura Chandler

Sodomite? Wow. Bigot much?
http://profiles.google.com/thewondervenus Laura Chandler

Sodomite? Wow. Bigot much?

No1thatmatters

I agree with you Hawkerdriver. I’d pay my $10 to flush the turds in the street down the sewer where they belong. Selective enforcement of the laws based on the personal preference of the local government needs to be pursued by the Tea Party and any other group that has been denied permits. I’d also personally like to see the KKK, Nazi Party and others sue these cities as well as every other hate group that has been denied a permit. The #OWS assholes are nothing more than just another hate group and they need to be treated exactly the same. Oh the vision of the KKK marching on downtown Atlanta and encountering the OWS group there, I may be giggling all day long at that mental image.

No1thatmatters

Just to clarify, I am not saying that the Tea Party is a hate group. I love the Tea Party!
http://profiles.google.com/thewondervenus Laura Chandler

If OWS is a hate group, so is the Tea Party. you aren’t making sense.
http://profiles.google.com/thewondervenus Laura Chandler

If OWS is a hate group, so is the Tea Party. you aren’t making sense.

http://profiles.google.com/thewondervenus Laura Chandler

As an OWSer, I also think it’s odd to charge the Tea party for using a public space to make political statement. They should not have been charged in the first place. I don’t think all Tea party folks are like the mannerless violent people below. Far from it. I think that they, and OWS, have lots of common ground. Fair is fair. Give the Tea Party folks their money back.