Showing posts with label tea party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tea party. Show all posts
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Our Site Is Moving
Plans are coming along for our tax day tea party so well that we are dedicating a new website to the effort. The enthusiasm we have received thus far has been amazing! Thank you to all.
Please join us on our new page at RI Tea Party. It should be up and running by the end of the weekend.
Sign up to volunteer, be a corporate or individual sponsor, and attend the rally. See you there!
Please join us on our new page at RI Tea Party. It should be up and running by the end of the weekend.
Sign up to volunteer, be a corporate or individual sponsor, and attend the rally. See you there!
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Building A Head of Steam
This is a piece I wrote on my blog www.timetorevoltamerica.com, but I think it is quite applicable to our Tea Party movement.
I hear a low rumble across the land, a steady build-up of steam that grows with each passing day. It began with the same sounds of discontent heard across America every four years by those unhappy with the results of an election that decides who will become President. But something is different this time, after this short post-inaugural period, that defies precedent. Whilst half of the nation moves ahead with either blind hope, complete ignorance, or inward glee at how our country is being "fundamentally transformed" as Obama promised he would, the remaining populace, whose views are ignored by the main stream media outlets, slowly boils. Every move made by this administration and this Congress in its 2 month infancy adds fuel to the fire.
The hopes that Obama would govern from the center, in spite of his past, have been dashed. Talk of transparency, of the most ethical White House ever, of a post-partisan leadership style that would reach across the aisle, of centrist campaign themes to woo moderates, all dashed. Just Words! Just Speeches! Obama mocked talk of his "social-is-tic" views during the campaign, and yet to those who know history, his actions speak oh-so-loudly of his core beliefs. Within his first 28 days in office, our new President has laid the framework for universal healthcare, redistribution of income, increased entitlement programs, decreased national security, and most of all, big government spending with trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see. All the while, the sickly economy from which The One was to save us, reels in response to his every move.
Meanwhile, those whom the media chooses to ignore, those who see the writing on the wall in bright red ink, are filled with a sense of dread. They know these are not normal times, that theirs is not normal partisan angst. They sense a cataclysmic shift in the very foundation of the government, from which the country may never recover. They are angry, scared, confused; they feel powerless, their views unrepresented. And as the scope and power of their feelings grow by the day, so do their numbers, as more people take off the rose colored glassed and actually look over the precipice to which we are being led.
They know what others before them in history have done to alter the course of their fates. But they are, as of yet, unsure of what to do, how to act. There comes a time when one realizes that not to act is to acquiesce, and subsequently burden one's children and grandchildren with the consequences of one's failure to make a stand. At what point, if ever, will the courage of the disaffected kick in? An eruption is brewing. We have the power to harness it's energy with coordinated effort, or we can let it explode unchecked and let the chips fall where they may.
I hear a low rumble across the land, a steady build-up of steam that grows with each passing day. It began with the same sounds of discontent heard across America every four years by those unhappy with the results of an election that decides who will become President. But something is different this time, after this short post-inaugural period, that defies precedent. Whilst half of the nation moves ahead with either blind hope, complete ignorance, or inward glee at how our country is being "fundamentally transformed" as Obama promised he would, the remaining populace, whose views are ignored by the main stream media outlets, slowly boils. Every move made by this administration and this Congress in its 2 month infancy adds fuel to the fire.
The hopes that Obama would govern from the center, in spite of his past, have been dashed. Talk of transparency, of the most ethical White House ever, of a post-partisan leadership style that would reach across the aisle, of centrist campaign themes to woo moderates, all dashed. Just Words! Just Speeches! Obama mocked talk of his "social-is-tic" views during the campaign, and yet to those who know history, his actions speak oh-so-loudly of his core beliefs. Within his first 28 days in office, our new President has laid the framework for universal healthcare, redistribution of income, increased entitlement programs, decreased national security, and most of all, big government spending with trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see. All the while, the sickly economy from which The One was to save us, reels in response to his every move.
Meanwhile, those whom the media chooses to ignore, those who see the writing on the wall in bright red ink, are filled with a sense of dread. They know these are not normal times, that theirs is not normal partisan angst. They sense a cataclysmic shift in the very foundation of the government, from which the country may never recover. They are angry, scared, confused; they feel powerless, their views unrepresented. And as the scope and power of their feelings grow by the day, so do their numbers, as more people take off the rose colored glassed and actually look over the precipice to which we are being led.
They know what others before them in history have done to alter the course of their fates. But they are, as of yet, unsure of what to do, how to act. There comes a time when one realizes that not to act is to acquiesce, and subsequently burden one's children and grandchildren with the consequences of one's failure to make a stand. At what point, if ever, will the courage of the disaffected kick in? An eruption is brewing. We have the power to harness it's energy with coordinated effort, or we can let it explode unchecked and let the chips fall where they may.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Providence Tax Day Tea Party Event on Facebook
For anyone out there who is a member of Facebook, feel free to look up the Providence Tax Day Tea Party Event and sign up to attend. It is currently the only attendee list we have available, although I am keeping track via all of the email people have been sending in as well. You may also sign up as a Follower on this page or follow me on Twitter (look up MadMom1).
I look forward to seeing you all at this event. Please help spread the word to friends, family, taxpayer groups, political organizations, websites, and military/veterans groups. Let's send the message to our elected leaders that we demand accountability for big government spending!
I look forward to seeing you all at this event. Please help spread the word to friends, family, taxpayer groups, political organizations, websites, and military/veterans groups. Let's send the message to our elected leaders that we demand accountability for big government spending!
Saturday, March 14, 2009
We Need Volunteers and Team Leaders
Thus far, we have divied up the activities necessary to make this a super not-to-be-missed event. Here is the list of Team Leaders and areas in which we need lots of help. It is shaping up to be a fantastic event. Helen Glover from WHJJ has agreed to speak to the crowd!
Food & Drink Team Leader: Nan Hayden
Media Outreach Team Leader: Doreen Costa
Signs Team Leader: Kristen Lucas Bond
Flyers Team Leader: Brenda Robinson
Sound No Leader
Event Speakers Team Leader: Colleen Conley
Corporate Sponsors No Leader Yet
Please let me know if you have any interest in leading a team, or just participating in some way. info@touchstonedesigns.com
Food & Drink Team Leader: Nan Hayden
Media Outreach Team Leader: Doreen Costa
Signs Team Leader: Kristen Lucas Bond
Flyers Team Leader: Brenda Robinson
Sound No Leader
Event Speakers Team Leader: Colleen Conley
Corporate Sponsors No Leader Yet
Please let me know if you have any interest in leading a team, or just participating in some way. info@touchstonedesigns.com
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Moving Along
In just a couple of days, I've received emails and phone calls from people as far away as CA willing to lend a hand or even donate money to our Tea Party here in Lil' Rhody. And that's before any real planning has taken place! Even in a state as true blue as Rhode Island, there are LOTS of people who feel that government spending has gotten out of hand. Please call or email to join the cause. We need help planning, but most of all we need YOU to attend the rally! April 15th. Write it in your calendar. NOW!
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Providence Tax Day Tea Party
Welcome to the Official Site of the Providence Tax Day Tea Party, part of a nationwide effort to demonstrate the citizens' outrage at the egregious spending going on in the federal government. I know many of you have probably contacted your Senators and Congressman to relay your opposition to the "generational theft" for which our elected leaders are voting. We say, ENOUGH!
Our Rhode Island protest will take place on April 15th, 2009, tentatively from noon to 3:00. More details will be forthcoming. We need lots of help to make signs, contact media outlets (we want LOTS of coverage), get the word out, and contact leaders in our community. Please join us! If we do not act on behalf of our children to curb the spending, we will have no one to blame but ourselves when they carry the burden of our future national debt.
Our Rhode Island protest will take place on April 15th, 2009, tentatively from noon to 3:00. More details will be forthcoming. We need lots of help to make signs, contact media outlets (we want LOTS of coverage), get the word out, and contact leaders in our community. Please join us! If we do not act on behalf of our children to curb the spending, we will have no one to blame but ourselves when they carry the burden of our future national debt.
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