ALBANY Tea Party tour, minus Palin, sets rally Organizer seeks to marshal area’s conservatives BY KATHLEEN MOORE Gazette Reporter Reach Gazette reporter Kathleen Moore at 395-3120 or moore@dailygazette.com.
The Tea Party Express will stop in Albany this month to urge locals to vote out their national leaders. The tour began on March 27 in Nevada and ends April 15 in Washington, D.C. Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will join the tour on April 14 in Boston, but is not scheduled to appear in Albany. The tour stops here on April 13 at 10 a.m. at the State Capitol. Organizer Mark Williams, a former WROW radio talk show host, said he is bringing the tour to Albany because he knows its message will resonate with many locals. “I know that there’s a vast underground of conservatives who have been beaten underground,” he said, adding that many may be Democrats because they couldn’t win election as conservatives. “Many of them have that Democratic label simply because it’s a matter of survival,” he said. “We want to say, ‘Come out, come out, wherever you are.’ ” He needs to marshal conservatives to, as he put it, wean the Capital Region off its addiction to state aid. “Upstate New York in particular is the Third World of the Northeast,” he said. “It shows such an advanced case of dependency. Dear God, the New York State Thruway is still pouring millions into the Erie Canal, which became obsolete in what, 1940?” The canal is mostly used by recreation boats today. He hopes to energize local voters to get rid of the Congressional incumbents up for election this fall. The tour’s motto is, “Just vote them out!” .....................>>>>.....................>>>>.................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01303&AppName=1
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alleykat
April 5, 2010, 6:31am
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Yes the libs are disappointed that Palin wo;t be coming. We were planning on being there to meet her.
FAce it Tea Party folks--the coffee people/Moveon.org welcome a conversation with SP. Hard to believe no Moveon people were there to greet her. She can draw a crowd no doubt--but so does the carnival. She just can't get them to vote for her because she is a dunce. McCain was a fool to bring her out of the moth balls. He's ok--hope he wins.
As you have probably surmised, there will be a large round of Tea Parties coming up on April 15th. There will be large names, even larger crowds - and honestly, organizers would be unable to stop people from coming if they wanted to at this point. I will be speaking in Atlanta, and the FreedomWorks event in DC has a fantastic line-up including Lord Monckton, Andrew Breitbart, and Ron Paul.
I experienced first hand some of the tension at the Capitol last weekend during the health care votes. People are undeniably angry. For the most part, however, lefties have laughed off the Tea Party movement. They’ve called them crazy, racist, homophobic, and sexist. They’ve compared them to neo-nazis and domestic terrorists. They’ve done everything they can to keep them out of the mainstream coverage and paint them as a fringe movement.
The problem? The Tea Party movement represents the dead center of American politics, which is the fiscal conservative. The over the top accusations are laughable, and now they’re forced to acknowledge the political power of the movement. And they’re freaking out.
Someone sent this to me this morning:
The organizers of this nationwide day of protest call it a tea party. This tea party movement that emerged only a year ago is a coalition of conservatives, anti-semites, fascists, libertarians, racists, constitutionalists, militia men, gun freaks, homophobes, ron paul supporters, alex jones conspiracy types and american flag wavers. If the tea party movement continues to grow in size and strength there is a big chance they will dominate this country in the near future. If the tea party movement takes over this country they will really hurt poor people by getting rid of social programs like food stamps, unemployment benefits, disability benefits, student aid, free health care, etc. The tea party movement will say these programs must be gotten rid of because hard-working taxpayers cannot afford to pay for these things especially when the economy is in a depression.
It’s on some site I’ve never heard of, so naturally I Googled it, and apparently it’s on a network of self-proclaimed anarchist sites. It’s linked here, here, here, and naturally, on a slew of conservative sites who have since picked up on it.
Let’s start by pointing out the obvious: These are “anarchist” websites that think it’s bad to eliminate government run social programs. I feel like maybe they need a definition of “anarchy”.
an·ar·chy [an-er-kee]
1. a state of society without government or law.
2. political and social disorder due to the absence of governmental control: The death of the king was followed by a year of anarchy.
3. a theory that regards the absence of all direct or coercive government as a political ideal and that proposes the cooperative and voluntary association of individuals and groups as the principal mode of organized society.
So. ABSENCE of government control. ABSENCE of all direct government. This isn’t complicated stuff. Let’s look back at the release floating around again:
If the tea party movement takes over this country they will really hurt poor people by getting rid of social programs like food stamps, unemployment benefits, disability benefits, student aid, free health care, etc.
Right. Now that we have cleared that up, we should address the actual issue: the left has FINALLY caught on and started to voice the fact that they believe the tea party movement is a threat to their agenda. It’s easier when they don’t take the movement seriously. Then we do what we want, we win, and they wind up being, well, Marth Coakley… standing there like stunned beasts wondering how they could possibly have lost.
It appears, however, that they were able to wrap their brains around the idea that we’re not going away. They’re looking to escalate the attacks. FreedomWorks has been receiving threats. Up until this point, the counter protests and such have been a joke - like when a whopping four Code Pink moonbats showed up at Michele Bachmann’s House Call event in November. Lately, there has been more interest in the movement, and with that comes Lefty blowback… which we’ve seen in full force recently.
Gird your loins, kids. This is going to be a rough road. Show up, fight hard, and don’t retaliate.
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Good catch, GrahamBonnet!
