tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57386137667724541862024-03-05T14:53:08.766-08:00TEA Party News & ReportTritonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690342365648248763noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5738613766772454186.post-41577283612708061752013-08-19T10:47:00.001-07:002013-08-19T10:47:24.618-07:00A cup of hope: Tea Party raises money for cancer awareness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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WASHINGTON MILLS — Even while in the Intensive Care Unit Anjali Khatri wouldn’t let cancer get in the way of a good tea party.</div>
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“She loved glitter and being a princess,” said her mother Janine
Roberts, of Sauquoit. “She was strong and courageous and funny.”<br />
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When 3-year-old Anjali died of Neuroblastoma in May 2010, Roberts wanted to find a way for her to live forever.<br />
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Sunday, she was very much alive in spirit at the third annual Anjali’s Tea Party.<br />
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Valentino’s Banquet Hall in Washington Mills was a little girl’s dream
with finger food, cupcakes, tea and even dancers from the
Leatherstocking Ballet Company dressed as princesses.<br />
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But Anjali didn’t just prompt an event, she rallied an army—Anjali’s
Army, which started in 2009 and globally raises money for better
treatments, supports new therapies and raises awareness of pediatric
cancer.<br />
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“She’s a force to be reckoned with and we won’t stop until we find a cure,” Roberts said. “Every kid deserves a childhood.”<br />
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The first two tea parties combined raised about $20,000, she said.</div>
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Georgia’s state utility company will be adding <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2013/07/11/georgia-psc-orders-more-solar-power.html?page=all%20">525 megawatts of solar energy</a> by 2016 thanks to grassroots pressure from a new alliance known as the <a href="http://www.thegreenteaparty.com/" target="_blank">Green Tea Coalition</a>, which unites environmentalists and right-wing Tea Party activists.<br />
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Their new alliance, officially launched on Aug. 6,
represents a bridge between political parties in support of clean energy
policies. In the state of Georgia, the coalition includes members of
the <a href="http://www.sierraclub.org/" target="_blank">Sierra Club</a>,
Georgia Watch, Occupy Atlanta, the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Atlanta Tea Party
Patriots.</div>
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Many Republican politicians that align themselves closely with the Tea Party <a href="http://priceofoil.org/2011/08/02/congress-is-most-anti-green-in-history/" target="_blank">have been vocal opponents</a> of renewables, <a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/07/11/energy_saving_light_bulb_debate/" target="_blank">energy efficiency</a> and <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/rep-michele-bachmanns-energy-stance-shut-down-epa-041600387.html" target="_blank">climate action</a> in
order to reduce government intervention in the free market. Tea Party
activists in the Green Tea Coalition maintain the same conservative
political commitment, but find no contradiction between valuing the free
market and supporting <a href="http://ecowatch.com/p/energy/renewable-energy-energy/" target="_blank">renewable energy</a>.</div>
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Tritonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690342365648248763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5738613766772454186.post-84539154639503426512013-08-19T10:41:00.000-07:002013-08-19T10:48:07.375-07:00WRONG - NOT TEA PARTY - California tea party legislator pulling ‘horrified’ teenagers from school to avoid transgender equality law<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><u>TPNR COMMENTARY:</u></b> What Assemblyman Tin Donnelly is doing is a good move. Associating this agenda PRO or CON with the TEA Party is NOT PROPER. The TEA Party is NOT about social issues like gay rights, abortion, racism, etc... The TEA Party is about fiscal responsibility, smaller government, lesser taxation, and constitutionality. </span> </span><br />
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California State Assemblyman Tim Donnelly went on Fox & Friends
this morning and declared that he would be pulling his “horrified”
children from public schools now that <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/12/california-to-enact-first-of-its-kind-transgender-student-rights-law/">Jerry Brown has signed AB 1266 into law</a>.
The bill allows transgender students the opportunity to participate in
sex-segregated activities and use restroom facilities consistent with
their stated gender identities instead of the one on their birth
certificates.<br />
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On Friday, Donnelly <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/18/republican-says-californias-transgender-rights-law-only-provides-the-right-to-be-ogled/">wrote</a>
that “[m]any of the parents I have heard from within the last few days
have literally pulled their kids out of public schools and have enrolled
them in homeschool and private school programs.”<br />
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Today, the <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jun/02/business/la-fi-capitol-business-beat-20130603">self-described Tea Party conservative</a>
announced that he would be joining their ranks. After complaining that
the bill “violates the rights of the 98 percent of students who do not
identify as transgender,” he indicated that its passage unleashed a
“tsunami of discontent” which, he believes, will lead to the bill’s
repeal. A group calling itself “<a href="http://privacyforallstudents.com/">Privacy for All Students</a>”
filed a referendum to overturn the bill last week, but it is unclear
whether they can gather 500,000 signatures in the 90 days required by
California law.<br />
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Tea Party Patriots and the grassroots group For America are launching
online ads against a dozen GOP senators who either oppose the effort or
haven’t announced a position.<br />
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Along with the ads, leaders of the groups will embark on a six-state,
five-day “Exempt America” tour (the idea being that the American people
should be exempt from Obamacare) that will bring them to the home
states of several of these senators.<br />
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<em>Update 12:01 p.m.: The conservative group Heritage Action is also
launching an online ad campaign pushing the Defund Obamacare effort.
Heritage will spend $550,000 on <a href="http://heritageaction.com/press-releases/heritage-action-announces-550000-defund-obamacare-ad-campaign/?utm_source=heritageaction&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=comm-press&utm_content=">online ads targeting 100 House Republicans</a>.</em><br />
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The effort comes as Defund Obamacare – whose supporters pledge not to
fund the government if it includes money for the president’s
health-care law — struggles to gain the traction it would need to
actually force the issue. Several GOP senators have opposed the strategy
in no uncertain terms.<br />
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<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/08/19/tea-party-groups-to-target-skeptical-gop-senators-on-defunding-obamacare/">Read More... </a>Tritonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690342365648248763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5738613766772454186.post-34868434564374912882013-08-16T15:16:00.001-07:002013-08-16T15:16:40.354-07:00Mark Levin Book #1 - The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In a new book set to hit bookshelves Tuesday, radio <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/11/mark-levins-radical-proposal-10-amendments-to-the-constitution-to-restore-the-american-republic/#" id="itxthook0" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; display: inline; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook0p"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook0w" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0, 204, 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #009900; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 0px 1px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important;">talk</span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" id="itxthook0icon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" style="margin-bottom: 0px!important; margin-left: 0px!important; margin-right: 0px!important; margin-top: 0px!important; padding-bottom: 0px!important; padding-left: 4px!important; padding-right: 0px!important; padding-top: 0px!important; vertical-align: baseline!important;" /></span></a> show host Mark Levin proposes 10 amendments to stymie the growing reach of the federal government.<br />
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According to Levin, the Constitution has not proved to be as an effective barrier against the growth of government. His new <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/11/mark-levins-radical-proposal-10-amendments-to-the-constitution-to-restore-the-american-republic/#" id="itxthook1" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; display: inline; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook1p"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook1w" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0, 204, 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #009900; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 0px 1px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important;">book</span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" id="itxthook1icon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" style="margin-bottom: 0px!important; margin-left: 0px!important; margin-right: 0px!important; margin-top: 0px!important; padding-bottom: 0px!important; padding-left: 4px!important; padding-right: 0px!important; padding-top: 0px!important; vertical-align: baseline!important;" /></span></a>, “<a class="external" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1451606273/thedaical-20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic</a>,” proposes ways to remedy that.<br />
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One of Levin’s primary aims with the book is to shift the current
balance of power away from Washington, D.C. and back to state government
and the individual. In order to <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/11/mark-levins-radical-proposal-10-amendments-to-the-constitution-to-restore-the-american-republic/#" id="itxthook2" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; display: inline; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook2p"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook2w" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0, 204, 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #009900; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 0px 1px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important;">achieve</span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" id="itxthook2icon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" style="margin-bottom: 0px!important; margin-left: 0px!important; margin-right: 0px!important; margin-top: 0px!important; padding-bottom: 0px!important; padding-left: 4px!important; padding-right: 0px!important; padding-top: 0px!important; vertical-align: baseline!important;" /></span></a>
that goal, Levin proposes a repeal of Seventeenth Amendment, which
would return to state legislators the power to appoint U.S. senators.<br />
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Tritonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690342365648248763noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5738613766772454186.post-52552516864272427212013-08-16T14:30:00.002-07:002013-08-16T14:30:53.834-07:00The Morning Plum: GOP elites in full blown panicThe other day, I suggested there are increasing signs Republicans
leaders now know that they have a major problem on their hands — the
GOP’s posture on Obamacare is untenable — and are seriously grappling
with it at the highest levels. I am not well sourced among top
Republicans, so that was mostly speculation and tea leaf reading.<br />
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But Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei <em>are</em> well sourced among top Republicans. And <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/behind-the-curtain-eve-of-destruction-95594.html?hp=t1">today they weigh in with a big piece reporting that GOP elites are in full blown panic mode</a> about the party’s drift towards a series of Apocalyptic showdowns this fall.<br />
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The most interesting bit is the profound worry about the drift
towards a government shutdown over Obamacare. But I think the
fundamental problem is still being overlooked. Here’s the key part:<br />
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Republicans are in jeopardy of convincing voters they
simply cannot govern. Their favorable ratings are terrible and getting
worse. But there is broad concern it could go from worse to an
unmitigated disaster this fall. Most urgently, according to a slew of
key Republicans we interviewed, conservative GOP senators have got to
give up their insistence that the party allow the government to shut
down after Sept. 30 if they don’t get their way on defunding Obamacare.<br />
The quixotic drive — led by Rubio, Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Mike Lee —
is part of Rubio’s effort to make up with the conservative base after he
was stunned by the backlash over his deal-making on immigration.
Pollsters say the funding fight makes Republicans look even more
obstructionist, and causes voters to worry about the effect a shutdown
would have on their own finances.<br />
Whit Ayres of North Star Opinion Research, who has been drilling down
on this issue for the conservative public-opinion group Resurgent
Republic, said: “Shutting down the government is the one way that
Republicans can turn Obamacare from a political advantage to a political
disadvantage in 2014.”</blockquote>
This passage contains both an important recognition and an unwitting
glimpse into the broader, unacknowledged problem here. The government
shutdown push has focused the attention of GOP elites, because it is
probably suicidal politically for the party. At the same time, though,
the unspoken premise is that the problem is only one of <em>excessive tactics</em>, rather than something more fundamental.<br />
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has gone beyond partisan give-and-take in the nation’s politics. It is
now seeping into and poisoning the ranks of the Republican Party. - See
more at:
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Vitriol
has gone beyond partisan give-and-take in the nation’s politics. It is
now seeping into and poisoning the ranks of the Republican Party. - See
more at:
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/opinion/op_ed/2013/08/on_obamacare_tea_party_on_right_track#sthash.3HG6wWaW.dpuf</div>
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Tritonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690342365648248763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5738613766772454186.post-23809493931424287132013-08-16T14:20:00.004-07:002013-08-16T14:20:59.674-07:00Nancy Mace Gets Tea Party Nod<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A national Tea Party group is endorsing the U.S. Senate candidacy of
Lowcountry businesswoman Nancy Mace, according to an exclusive report
published this week by Breitbart.<br />
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“It’s long past time we had a conservative of conscience, not a
conservative of convenience, representing South Carolina,” Tea Party
Leadership Fund founder Todd Cefaratti <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/08/13/Exclusive-National-Tea-Party-group-to-endorse-Nancy-Mace-against-Lindsey-Graham" target="_blank">told</a>
the site. ”In Nancy Mace, we have a candidate that tea party groups and
conservatives across the state can unite behind, and finally we can
send Lindsey Graham into retirement.”<br />
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Mace is one of three announced challengers to Graham. The others?
Social conservative S.C. Sen. Lee Bright (R-Spartanburg) and Piedmont,
S.C. attorney Richard Cash.<br />
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<strong>New groups are forming as top races take shape</strong><br />
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Following the 2012 elections, it was unclear how much momentum was
left in the Tea Party movement, both nationally and in Minnesota.
Political analysts blamed the conservative faction for several
embarrassing Republican losses in high-profile campaigns, while overall
public opinion seemed to have soured on the concept. Nationwide exit
polling found 21 percent of voters had a positive opinion of the Tea
Party movement, about half of the 41 percent support found in 2010 exit
polls.<br />
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Locally, a number of Tea Party-aligned politicians who helped the GOP
take control of the Legislature in 2010 were defeated. Perhaps worst of
all, U.S. Senate candidate Kurt Bills, who won the party endorsement
thanks to organizing by Tea Party and pro-Ron Paul elements, won only 30
percent of the statewide vote in November.<br />
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But if the last few months are any indication, the party’s not over.
Energized by watching a full legislative session of DFL control and
continued inaction in the federal government, new branches of the Tea
Party have been springing up throughout the metro area. From April
through the end of this month, five new suburban Tea Party groups will
have held inaugural events.<br />
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Tritonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690342365648248763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5738613766772454186.post-3564674549601041812013-08-15T10:51:00.000-07:002013-08-15T10:51:18.103-07:00Jesse Lee Peterson, tea'd off in South L.A.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's not a typo: The South Central L.A. <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/tea-party-movement-ORCIG000068.topic" id="ORCIG000068" title="Tea Party Movement">Tea Party</a>
exists, and Jesse Lee Peterson takes a bow for founding it. He's also
president and founder of the 23-year-old black bootstraps group
Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny, or BOND, and serves as pastor
for a nondenominational congregation at its headquarters. As his public
pronouncements make clear, he detests <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/social-issues/planned-parenthood-ORNPR0000047.topic" id="ORNPR0000047" title="Planned Parenthood">Planned Parenthood</a> and legal abortion, welfare and the California-born black holiday <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/arts-culture/holidays/kwanzaa-EVFES00003943.topic" id="EVFES00003943" title="Kwanzaa">Kwanzaa</a>. He used to hold a "national day of repudiation" against <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/social-issues/racism/jesse-jackson-PEPLT007437.topic" id="PEPLT007437" title="Jesse Jackson">Jesse Jackson</a>;
he has his doubts about women in high places. He is in demand as a
black voice in conservative media, and his voice was still a little
scratchy back home in L.A. after yet another speaking gig in the East.<br />
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Twenty <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/14/tea-party-groups-tell-sen-lamar-alexander-hes-vuln/#" id="itxthook0" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; display: inline; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook0p"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook0w" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0, 204, 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #009900; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 0px 1px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important;">tea</span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" id="itxthook0icon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" style="margin-bottom: 0px!important; margin-left: 0px!important; margin-right: 0px!important; margin-top: 0px!important; padding-bottom: 0px!important; padding-left: 4px!important; padding-right: 0px!important; padding-top: 0px!important; vertical-align: baseline!important;" /></span></a> party and conservative groups in Tennessee have signed onto a letter that asks <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/lamar-alexander/">Sen. Lamar Alexander</a>
to retire, claiming “our great nation can no longer afford compromise
and bipartisanship, two traits for which you have become famous.”<br />
<br />
Their letter praises <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/lamar-alexander/">Mr. Alexander</a>, a Republican, for his long service to the Volunteer State.<br />
But
they say he has not fought hard enough for conservative ideals, even if
it means digging in his heels when congressional gridlock <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/14/tea-party-groups-tell-sen-lamar-alexander-hes-vuln/#" id="itxthook1" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; display: inline; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook1p"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook1w" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0, 204, 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #009900; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 0px 1px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important;">calls</span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" id="itxthook1icon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" style="margin-bottom: 0px!important; margin-left: 0px!important; margin-right: 0px!important; margin-top: 0px!important; padding-bottom: 0px!important; padding-left: 4px!important; padding-right: 0px!important; padding-top: 0px!important; vertical-align: baseline!important;" /></span></a> for a deal.<br />
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“America
faces serious challenges and needs policymakers who will defend
conservative values, not work with those who are actively undermining
those values,” they wrote.<br />
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<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/lamar-alexander/">Mr. Alexander</a> is up for re-election in 2014, and his reelection website touts a comment from campaign co-chair <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/john-j-duncan-jr/">Rep. John J. Duncan Jr.</a>, Tennessee Republican, that refers to <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/lamar-alexander/">Mr. Alexander</a> as a “good Republican and good conservative who stands up for Tennesseans.”<br />
<br />
“<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/lamar-alexander/">Senator Alexander</a> is focused on being the best senator he can be,” an <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/lamar-alexander/">Alexander</a> spokesman said Wednesday.<br />
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The Tea Party is getting back on more solid ground -- midterm
elections where in 2010 the fledgling, grassroots movement unseated
so-called “Washington insiders” and helped Republicans win control of
the House. <br />
<br />
The loosely knit coalition of groups has already targeted some of the
Republican Party’s most established candidates, accusing them of
compromising their conservative principles in negotiating with
Democrats.<br />
<br />
The Tea Party Express even boasted this winter that promising to
mount a primary challenge against Georgia Republican Sen. Saxby
Chambliss forced him to retire instead of seeking a third term.<br />
<br />
“Lest anyone think this decision is about a primary challenge, I have
no doubt that had I decided to be a candidate, I would have won
re-election,” responded Chambliss, who was part of a bipartisan Senate
group that tried to reduce the national debt.<br />
<br />
One of the most recent, high-profile Tea Party challenges is in South
Carolina, where Nancy Mace, the first female graduate of The Citadel,
is trying to unseat two-term Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, whose
efforts to pass immigration-reform legislation appears most upsetting to
the movement.<br />
<br />
Graham also frustrated conservatives so much this spring when
criticizing fellow Republican and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul for
filibustering over the Obama administration’s drone strikes that
FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe said Graham was “begging for a
primary.”<br />
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The Medford-based West Jersey Tea Party has joined a class action
lawsuit filed by a host of tea parties and other conservative groups
from across the country against the Internal Revenue Service for
allegedly targeting them for extra scrutiny, harassment and delays when
they applied for tax-exempt status.<br />
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The West Jersey Tea Party is one of approximately 30 groups now
participating as plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which was originally filed
May 20 in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati by the Colfax, Calif.-based
NorCal Tea Party Patriots in response to a Treasury Department inspector
general’s report that revealed tax-exemption applications from tea
party groups and other conservative and religious organizations across
the country had been singled-out by IRS employees for extra scrutiny and
delays.<br />
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Applications from some progressive or liberal groups also received extra scrutiny as well.<br />
<br />
The complaint alleges the IRS actions violated
the groups’ constitutional rights and federal privacy laws. It seeks
unspecified damages for “loss of benefit of tax exempt status, cost of
complying with burdensome requests, loss of donors and membership fees …
punitive damages, litigation costs and reasonable attorney’s fees.”<br />
<br />
West Jersey Tea Party joined the plaintiffs last
week and was expected to be named in forthcoming legal documents,
officials said.<br />
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WASHINGTON -- Front-line screeners at the Internal Revenue Service
don't have any guidance on how to handle tax-exempt applications from
political groups in the wake of the Tea Party scandal, an IRS employee
told congressional investigators this month.<br />
<br />
Without that
guidance, the IRS is giving all applications from political advocacy
groups a secondary screening. And Tea Party groups are getting a second
look whether there's any indication of political advocacy or not.<br />
<br />
That's
according to an unnamed IRS agent in the Cincinnati office whose desk
is the first stop for non-profit groups seeking tax-exempt status. The
15-year IRS employee was interviewed by House Ways and Means Committee
investigators behind closed doors August 1. USA TODAY reviewed a
redacted transcript of the interview Monday.<br />
<br />
House Republicans say the interview shows that the IRS is still targeting Tea Party groups.<br />
"IRS
screeners continue to flag certain applications for secondary scrutiny
based on name alone," House Ways and Means Committee Chairman David
Camp, R-Mich., said in a letter Monday to acting IRS commissioner Daniel
Werfel. The interview shows that Werfel's efforts to correct the
problems in the Exempt Organization Office have failed, Camp said.<br />
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Gaffes rarely cause a campaign to unravel. But the revelation that
Mitch McConnell's campaign manager privately confided he's "sorta
holding my nose" while working for the senator's reelection could still
pack a wallop.<br />
<br />
The content of Jesse Benton's remark was bad enough, suggesting that
even the conservatives on McConnell's payroll don't like him. But the
timing was worse: It comes just as the Senate minority leader is trying
to extinguish a fledgling primary challenge from the right by
Louisville-area businessman Matt Bevin. A serious, sustained Republican
rival would not only threaten McConnell's grip on the nomination, it
would divert his attention from the general-election opponent many
consider his most serious threat—Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes.<br />
<br />
"I think Jesse spoke for Republicans in Kentucky and all across the
country when he said he had to hold his nose to support Senator
McConnell," said Matt Hoskins, spokesman for the Senate Conservatives
Fund. "McConnell's liberal record and his failure to lead on key issues
is very disappointing."<br />
<br />
Benton made the remark during a private phone call with Dennis
Fusaro, who appeared to secretly record the conversation. Fusaro and
Benton had worked together on Ron Paul's presidential campaign last
year, which Benton managed before moving on to McConnell.<br />
<br />
"Between you and me, I'm sorta holdin' my nose for two years," Benton says on the recording, which was <a href="http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/08/mitch-mcconnell-campaign-manager-im.html">posted Thursday at the<em> Economic Policy Journal</em></a>.
He said he hoped what he was doing would be "a big benefit to Rand in
'16. That's my long vision." It was a reference to a potential 2016
presidential run by Rand Paul, Kentucky's other GOP senator, who is Ron
Paul's son.<br />
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<b>Also, don’t call Florida’s first black Republican elected to state office since Reconstruction an African-American.</b><br />
<br />
“Whenever tyranny raises its head, so does the spirit of the Tea Party that will come up and fight that tyranny. We
saw it with the Revolutionary War, we saw it with the Civil War, we saw
with the women’s suffrage movement, we saw it with the civil rights
movement, and now seeing it again because people are rising up against
tyranny tearing down the walls of our Constitution. They want to be
protected by the Constitution. That’s what Tea Party is. When that
tyranny has been defeated, it will melt back into the fabric of society
until the next time tyranny raises its head.”<br />
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A <a href="http://www.people-press.org/2013/07/31/whither-the-gop-republicans-want-change-but-split-over-partys-direction/">Pew Research survey</a>
in July found rank-and-file Republicans in agreement that their party
needed to address major problems in order to do better in future
presidential elections, but there was division over exactly how the
party needed to change.<br />
<br />
A major factor in this discussion is the influence Republicans and
Republican-leaning independents who agree with the Tea Party exert in
primary elections. Aside from <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/us/politics/30teaparty.html?pagewanted=all">challenges to Republican incumbents</a> in state and congressional races in 2012, the <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/29/tea-party-v-establishment-battle-for-gop-soul/">2012 GOP presidential primary season</a> was marked by the rise and fall of a series of candidates who appealed to the party’s more conservative wing.<br />
<br />
Overall, 62% of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters who agree
with the Tea Party say they “always” vote in primary elections. By
comparison, only 45% of non-Tea Party Republican voters say they always
vote in primaries.<br />
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Former New York Gov. David Paterson (D) said Monday that Rep. Charles
Rangel’s (D-N.Y.) recent remarks comparing the Tea Party to
segregationists were “out of line.”<br />
<br />
The comment was prompted by <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/315289-rangel-tea-party-activists-are-white-crackers"><b>Rangel’s statement</b></a>
last Friday in a Daily Beast interview that Tea Party supporters were
“the same group we faced in the South with those white crackers and the
dogs and the police.”<br />
<br />
“I thought it was totally out of line for [Rangel] to lump what went on
during the desegregation movement in with people who just have honest
political disagreements,” said Paterson.<br />
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They say no publicity is bad publicity. Is the same true for aggressive oversight by the Internal Revenue Service?<br />
<br />
<br />
That's
a question some folks in the Tea Party might be asking. Amidst the
scandal of a politicized IRS putting conservative groups through the
wringer prior to the 2012 elections, the Tea Party finds itself the
subject of a number of recent media accounts.<br />
<br />
It makes sense to take a more sober look at the Tea Party, about as
maligned a political group as has come down the recent pike. For
example, there was never a racist tack to anything the Tea Party
advocated, and racists were never a welcome or prominent part of Tea
Party rallies. There wasn't anything more outrageous about 99.9 percent
of Tea Party gatherings than there was about 79.9 percent of anti-Bush
rallies in the 1990s. After all, one man's <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/31/top-10-most-vile-anti-bush-signs-slideshow/">heartfelt political beliefs</a> are another's <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/16/10-most-offensive-tea-par_n_187554.html">dangerous radicalism</a>.<br />
<br />
<br />
Still,
none of that stopped portrayals of the Tea Party as something just
short of an energized and resurgent Klan. So, too, with the slang "tea
baggers" moniker which, if applied with the same ill intent to other
groups, could possibly be construed as a hate crime.<br />
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at National Review Online, David French (a lawyer probing the IRS
scandal) reports that NPR has posted a chart summarizing the House
Oversight Committee’s findings on the IRS targeting of “progressive”
groups versus conservative, Tea Party and “patriot or 9/12"
organizations. The numbers are not close.<br />
<br />
There were only seven “progressive” groups targeted and all seven were
approved for tax-exempt status. By contrast, the IRS targeted 104
anti-Obama groups, and 56 of them are still waiting for approval (or
gave up). French says it makes the New York Times look silly:<br />
At <br />
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If progressives experienced similar targeting, why didn’t they make any
notable contemporaneous complaints? After all, conservatives raised the
issue well over a year ago, members of Congress asked the IRS
commissioner about it directly, and the New York Times was even moved by
the complaints to write its now-clownish <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/opinion/the-irs-does-its-job.html?_r=0">March 7, 2012, editorial</a> claiming the IRS was merely “do[ing] its job.”<br />
<br />
Perhaps progressives didn’t complain because their targeting experience
involved seven groups that were asked an average of just five
additional questions (rounded up to be generous) and were approved at a
100 percent rate.<br />
<br />
By contrast, 104 ”phony scandal” conservative groups experienced an
average of 15 additional questions (14.9 to be exact), only 46 percent
were approved, and 56 groups are either waiting for a determination or
have withdrawn in frustration. There is simply no comparison.</div>
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TEA Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin told Breitbart News
Sunday host Stephen K. Bannon on Sunday night that her group has a plan
to prepare activists for town halls with their U.S. Representatives and
Senators on Obamacare and immigration nationwide over the month of
August.<br />
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“Really, the rise of the TEA Party started in 2009, I guess, it was
four years ago, in the summer of 2009,” Bannon opened up his questions
with Martin on the show. "We had the meetings, we had the rallies, but
it really started with the town halls against Obamacare. Over the next
five weeks we have both the defunding of Obamacare, which is being
sponsored and driven by Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, but probably more
important is immigration and the immigration bill and representatives
going back and hearing from people.”<br />
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Martin responded with a detailed plan her group Tea Party Patriots
has for five individual town halls it is hosting with other conservative
groups across the country, and details for constituents attending town
halls put on by their congressional members.<br />
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“We’re focusing on both of those [Obamacare defunding and
immigration] and also on IRS,” Martin said. “With immigration, we’re
partnering with Eagle Forum, Remembrance Project and NumbersUSA. We’re
going to be in Richmond on August 12 at a town hall meeting there. We’re
looking at August 19 at having a town hall meeting in Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania. And then we have three more in the works in Ohio, Dallas,
Texas, and in South Carolina. And these are all town halls that we are
hosting. <br />
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A straight-talking tea-party favorite is taking over the microphone
of one of the nation’s most popular talk shows on radio for a day.<br />
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Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, will host the three-hour, nationally syndicated “Sean Hannity Radio Show” this Monday, August 5th.<br />
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The show reaches more than 500 affiliates nationwide and is heard by more than 13.5 million listeners a week. <br />
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Republican Nancy Mace announced she is <a href="https://twitter.com/nancymace/status/363662819847204864" target="_hplink">running for the United States Senate,</a> posing a primary challenge to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).<br />
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Mace is the first female graduate of The Citadel and a tea party favorite. She <a href="http://www.kansascity.com/2013/08/03/4386780/nancy-mace-to-make-us-senate-announcement.html" target="_hplink">also runs</a> a small public relations firm, according to the AP.<br />
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Mace <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=648093618537271&l=772bb208f7" target="_hplink">announced</a> her candidacy at a Saturday breakfast hosted by the Berkeley County Republican Party.<br />
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Tritonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690342365648248763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5738613766772454186.post-43566257151745801992013-08-03T18:08:00.002-07:002013-08-03T18:08:38.200-07:00Conservative and Tea Party Leaders: Now Is the Time to Stop Obamacare<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Under a cloudy Washington sky on Thursday, members of Congress joined
with conservative leaders and tea party groups to unite against
Obamacare.<br />
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Comparing Obamacare to the day’s weather, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL)
said, “Obamacare hangs over our heads like a cloud of uncertainty
because people don’t know what tomorrow’s going to bring.”<br />
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The message from each speaker was clear: <a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/07/defunding-obamacare-the-next-best-option">Now is the best chance to stop Obamacare by defunding it before implementation takes root on October 1</a>.<br />
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Representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX) said elected leaders have an
obligation to protect Americans from the President’s unfair, unpopular
and unworkable health-care law.<br />
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“We’re standing for the people. I hope the President understands that
and eventually, if we stand strongly enough, comes around and starts
standing for the people instead of his party,” Gohmert said. “We owe
future generations better than they’re going to get with Obamacare.”<br />
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Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) demanded that if the President refuses to
protect the American people from the health-care law, then it’s up to
Congress to use its power of the purse to prevent Obamacare from being
implemented.<br />
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“This debate is no longer about liberals vs. conservatives,” Lee
said. “This law is about Washington, D.C. vs. everyone else in the
United States.”<br />
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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is <a href="https://twitter.com/MicheleBachmann/statuses/363396416862826497" target="_hplink">calling</a> on Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) to apologize for negative comments he made about the tea party movement.<br />
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Rangeld <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/02/charlie-rangel-on-immigration-pope-francis-his-successor.html" target="_hplink">told the Daily Beast</a> tea partiers are part of "the same group" of "white crackers" who fought against Civil Rights.<br />
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“It is the same group we faced in the South with those white crackers and the dogs and the police," <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/02/charlie-rangel-on-immigration-pope-francis-his-successor.html" target="_hplink">Rangel said</a>.
"They didn’t care about how they looked. It was just fierce
indifference to human life that caused America to say enough is enough.
‘I don’t want to see it and I am not a part of it.’ What the hell! If
you have to bomb little kids and send dogs out against human beings,
give me a break.”<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><u>Commentary:</u> If there is nothing to hide, then why are IRS officials not releasing information, taking the 5th Amendment, and "resigning"?</span></h4>
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