Join Tea Party Express and Gainesville Tea Party

Sunday, January 29th  – Stein Mart Parking Lot

Newberry Road beside the Oaks Mall

4:00 to 5:30 PM

TEA PARTY EXPRESS BUS IS ROLLING THROUGH FLORIDA

Gainesville is one of only 7 cities statewide chosen to participate in this landmark event.

“Rallying for Victory” Tour to Bring Tea Party Issues to the Forefront

Speakers include (others to be determined):

Amy Kremer, Chairman Tea Party Express
Judson Phillips, Founder Tea Party Nation
Lloyd Marcus, Tea Party Express Entertainer, American Tea Party Anthem
Diana Nagy, Tea Party Express Performer and Entertainer
Andrea Shea King, Radio Patriot and Vice President of the Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama
Jeniffer Horn, Mitt Romney Campaign
Susan Baird, Alachua County Commissioner
Laurie Newsom, President Gainesville Tea Party
Alan Berkelhammer, Leader Gainesville Tea Party
Paula Helton, Leader Gainesville Tea Party

 

 

Jacksonville, FL - Tea Party Express, the nation’s largest tea party political action committee, is excited to announce the launch of its “Rallying for Victory” bus tour through Florida. The tour will start this Saturday, January 28th and will make seven stops up and down the Sunshine State.

Amy Kremer, Chairman of the Tea Party Express, said, “The Tea Party Express is here rallying for victory against the policies of Barack Obama and the Harry Reid-led Senate. The current Administration has showed zero leadership and interest in listening to the voice of the American people. Our ‘Rallying for Victory’ tour through Florida will be an exhibition of the Tea Party’s strength and determination in pursuing and promoting Tea Party values.

“Florida is a key state in the presidential election campaign and one in which the future direction of the country could be determined.  This will be the place to reject the Obama policies of promoting his big government, liberal policies that have killed job growth and added trillions of dollars of debt. It is critical to have an energized and engaged Tea Party electorate, just like we saw in 2010 as the Tea Party movement elected more Republican state legislators since 1928 and more Republican congressional representatives since 1948.

“Our ‘Rallying for Victory’ bus tour will bring together local and national Tea Party activist to raise awareness of the Tea Party movement and the conservative principles that will put this nation back on the path to prosperity. It is an opportunity to inform the American people that there is a free-market solution to get the economy on the right track and that the president’s actions have not accomplished what he has promised,” Kremer concluded.

The Tea Party Express plans to make stops in Jacksonville, Winter Park, West Palm Beach, The Villages, Gainesville, Panama City and Pensacola. The Tea Party Express will be joined by conservative leaders from across the country and will provide a platform for Presidential candidates to present their Tea Party qualifications. The organization is directing the public to its website (www.TeaPartyExpress.org) for the details of the stops.

 

Boston Bruins Goaltender Passes on White House Visit

Boston Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas offered an explanation Monday night for why he chose to not meet President Barack Obama.

Thomas, who took a pass on the team’s White House visit in honor of their 2011 Stanley Cup championship, posted his reasons on his Facebook page Monday evening.

“I believe the Federal government has grown out of control, threatening the Rights, Liberties, and Property of the People,” Thomas wrote. “This is being done at the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial level. This is in direct opposition to the Constitution and the Founding Fathers vision for the Federal government.  Continue reading at:  chicagotribune.com.

 

Ronald Reagan – A Time for Choosing

A TIME FOR CHOOSING (The Speech – October 27, 1964) Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you and good evening. The sponsor has been identified, but unlike most television programs, the performer hasn’t been provided with a script. As a matter of fact, I have been permitted to choose my own words and discuss my own ideas regarding the choice that we face in the next few weeks.

I have spent most of my life as a Democrat. I recently have seen fit to follow another course. I believe that the issues confronting us cross party lines. Now, one side in this campaign has been telling us that the issues of this election are the maintenance of peace and prosperity. The line has been used, “We’ve never had it so good.”

The complete video of speech:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBswFfh6AY

The full text of his speech:
http://gainesvilleteaparty.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/A-TIME-FOR-CHOOSING.pdf

Obama to Congress: I’ll decide what’s constitutional

Are You Seventy? Want to be Seventy Someday?

“Some of us are nearing 70, over 70, or know and love someone who is.   The articles in the Health Care Bill that are alarming are coming to light thanks to Physicians who are being prepared for the change.   This bill takes us back a century in the medical field.   Help is there and will be denied.  Restructure? – The quality of life and care [will be] in the hands of bureaucrats rather physicians.” – Hat tip: Tea Party Tribune

Rubio: “We Are A Nation Of Haves And Soon-To-Haves”

Friday, December 16, 2011                                                      Contact: Alex Conant (202) 224-3041

Rubio: “We have never been a nation of haves and have-nots. We are a nation of haves and soon-to-haves, of people who have made it and people who will make it. And that’s who we need to remain.”

Washington, D.C. – During a Senate floor speech this afternoon, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio offered his perspectives on his first year in office and the challenges that remain unsolved going into 2012. Below are excerpts from the speech.

RUBIO: DIVIDING AMERICANS IS NOT THE AMERICAN WAY

“There is another thing I’d like to talk about which is a troubling emergence in the last year of politics, and it’s really this rhetoric that in my opinion seeks to divide Americans against each other. …

“There’s this theme out there by some, including, quite frankly, many in our political leadership and from time to time even the White House, that is saying to people, ‘The reason why you’re worse off is because there is a handful of people out there that are doing too well. That the reason why you’ve lost your job is because someone else is being too greedy. That the reason why you’re losing your home is because someone else owns too many homes. That the reason why you’re making less money is because someone else is making too much money.’

“And I’m troubled by that rhetoric that pits people against each other. Because the second part of that argument, by the way, is: ‘Give the government more power. Give us, government, more power so we can step in and right this wrong, so we can take away from the people that have too much and give to those people that do not have enough.’ And let me tell you why I’m troubled by that. The first reason why I’m troubled by that is because it is absolutely not the kind of country we have been for two hundred some odd years. It’s not in our nature.

“Americans have never been a people to drive through a nice neighborhood and say, ‘Oh, I hate the people that live in these nice houses.’ Americans have been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, ‘Congratulations on your nice house. Guess what? We will be joining you soon.’ We’ve never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, ‘We hate you. We envy you because of how well you’re doing.’ Americans have celebrated their success and say, ‘Guess what? We’re going to be successful soon as well.’ …

“My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life. My mom was a maid, and a cashier, and a stock clerk at K-Mart. We were not people of financial means. … I always had what I needed. I didn’t always have what I wanted, but I always had what I needed. My parents always provided that. I don’t ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder. On the contrary, what they would do is hold up these examples of success and inspire in us the hope that one day we could be there as well financially, in our career, what have you. We are a people that have always celebrated other people’s success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves.

“That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I’m afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that. And I’m really concerned that there are those in America’s political leadership that are advocating that we abandon that in favor something else. And I think it’s wrong because it doesn’t work. That thought process that somehow other people have to be worse off in order for you to be better off does not work. People get on boats, people jump fences to get away from that kind of thought process. People flee countries that do that because it doesn’t work. It never has. And it will not work here. And the proof is in the numbers.”

RUBIO: THE NUMBERS DON’T LIE. THE PRESIDENT HAS FAILED

“Let’s put aside partisan political rhetoric for a moment and look at the numbers. In January of 2009, when the President was sworn in, he inherited a very bad economy. …He inherited an economy, for example, that had 12 million people out of a job, an economy where gas was $1.85 a gallon, where the debt was at $10.6 trillion, where there were 39 million Americans living in poverty in January of 2009. …

“But for the first two years of his presidency, for at least one of his first two years, he had 60 votes here in the Senate, which I quickly learned is the way everything seems to happen around here, by 60 votes. He had a majority in the House. He could have anything he wanted. … He wanted a stimulus package, and he got it. He wanted his health care package, and he got it. He wanted financial services reform, and he got it. So, what happened? …

“Well, now there are 13.3 million people unemployed. Gas is now at $3.27 a gallon, on average. The debt is now up to $15 trillion. And people in poverty, 39 million when he took office, 46 million people now. So put aside partisan rhetoric just for a moment, just the numbers. He became President, he got everything he wanted, and everything got worse. Those are the facts. …

“His view of government and politics is wrong and those who share it are wrong. They’re not un-American. They’re not bad people. But the proof is it doesn’t work. It hasn’t worked anywhere else in the world to approach it this way and it isn’t going to work here. … So I hope in this new year, we’ll reverse course on these things and instead embrace and take up the things that do work in America. What makes America become more prosperous? It isn’t that complicated, guys. … What makes us different is that, here, a worker can become an owner. An employee can become an employer. …”

RUBIO: THREE MAIN THINGS STAND IN THE WAY OF OUR PROSPERITY

“And what stands in the way of that are three things above everything else. The first is a tax code that’s crazy. It’s not complicated. It’s not burdensome. It’s crazy. … You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we’ve got to simplify our tax code. … The second is regulations. Look, we need to have regulations. There’s a glass of water. I don’t want this thing to have poison in it. I want our air to be clean. We all want things, and government has a role to play in those things. But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. … It kills the people trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. … And finally, this debt. The debt is a problem because there’s no plan in place to do anything about it. And people are afraid. They are concerned. They are worried and rightfully so about investing money in an economy that doesn’t have a plan to pay its bills. And so I hope we’ll reverse course on all those things because, if we do, it will lead to prosperity.”

RUBIO: WE ARE A NATION OF HAVES AND SOON-TO-HAVES

“And let me tell you what prosperity will lead to. It will lead to more jobs. More jobs will lead to more taxpayers. More taxpayers will lead to more revenue. And more revenue means we have money to pay down our debt and do the things that government should do – like our national defense, like invest in infrastructure and in our people, like provide a safety net to help those who cannot help themselves.

“But to do that, it all starts with embracing the fundamental principle of America’s prosperity. And that is that we have never been a nation of haves and have-nots. We are a nation of haves and soon-to-haves, of people who have made it and people who will make it. And that’s who we need to remain.

“If we desire to provide our children what we had, an American century – which is what the 21st century can be, should be and will be, if in 2012 this body and our leadership reverses course from the direction we are headed and places us on a path that’s true to our heritage as a people and embraces for our children and grandchildren the future they deserve. A prosperous and growing America, where all things are possible. Where anyone from anywhere can accomplish anything, or the son of a bartender and a maid can be a U.S. Senator. And where anyone watching, no matter where you start out in life, can accomplish anything and be anything you want to accomplish if you’re willing to work hard, play by the rules, and have the ability to do it.”

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If This Wasn’t From Bill Nelson, I’d Say it was Unbeliavable

A Letter To Bill Nelson; Help Protect Our Most Fundamental Right?

Many of us are on Senator Bill Nelson’s mailing list and receive his outrageous “e-newsletter”.  Most of them are self-promoting and are merely thinly veined campaign messages.  This is what a lot of politicians do.  At least Cliff Sterns sends them through his campaign email address.  Nelson’s emails often slam Republicans, but the one he sent out on Tuesday takes the cake.  It was so egregious and shameful, it reminds me of the ones I get from the infamous “My (former) Congressman is Nuts” Alan Grayson.

 

So please read Senator Nelson’s letter here: http://email.capitolhillnewsonline.com/q/DA3pzGH_A3VUaCx5VhWn0MqNQfM4qiQQmhtWxKG6P5M3ze5QI7Fb3960_

Now read this fantastic reply from Patriot, Ed Riordan of Winter Springs, FL. at:  FloridaPoliticalPress.com

 

Showing ID to Vote: Big Problem, To Buy Beer: No Problem

According to Jesse Jackson, Senator Bill Nelson, Al Sharpton, the NAACP, Eric Holder, and many other democrats, having to show ID in order to vote is discrimination and disenfranchisement. Then by the same token why are they not complaining and marching against having to show your ID in these situations?

And oh yeah, we had to produce a certified copy of my grandson’s birth certificate before the Alachua County school system would register him for school.

GOP Presidential Pageant

From a fellow Alachua county resident Lloyd Bailey – Have Americans completely forgotten the other two branches of our Republic?  You would think we had a monarchy, with all the daily discussion of the president, and the people are going to be fooled again, if they do not study and learn the constitution. Following is a short article that I hope you will enjoy and share.

GOP Presidential Pageant

While many citizens are captivated by the ongoing GOP Presidential Pageant, the congress is ignored and not held accountable for the debt limit increase which was recently passed by a neoconservative republican congress. The founding fathers understood man’s nature by creating a constitutional republic with checks and balances. They granted the greatest power to the legislative branch. The Senators were given six year terms to represent the states, and the House of Representatives was granted two year terms to represent the people. The more powerful House was limited by two year terms and granted the sole power of impeachment and appropriations. According to original intent, the president was to be elected by the state’s Electoral College.

Of the original 91 electoral positions, 26 electors (28.5%) were granted to the small and large states for the Senate and all electors were representatives of the states. A popular democratic presidential election was never intended. The founders understood that democracy was dangerous and that the people could be easily fooled by misleading demagogic rhetoric. This concern has been validated in past US elections. The balance of powers has been egregiously modified by the pernicious Seventeenth Amendment and partisan tampering with the state’s Electoral College.

Today there is another attack on our constitution, called the National Popular Vote, which if passed by the states will violate Article I, Section 10 of the constitution and will further disenfranchise the states. All of the electors will be usurped by the national popular vote. Rural areas will be ignored while candidates will focus on large population centers that have been known for voter fraud. The presidential popularity contest will choose an audience that can be easily manipulated.

Further understanding can be gleaned by reading Federalist #10, on the flaws of Democracy, and Federalist # 68, on the importance of the Electoral College.

Lloyd W. Bailey, Jr.

“Occupy” Is No Tea Party

Here’s another great article that my friend (and our friend), Billie Tucker co-authored with Dr. Edwin Feulner, President of the Heritage Foundation.  Billie is the co-founder of First Coast Tea Party and one of the “original” tea partiers:

We understand that the President is in a dilemma. He sympathizes with the protesters because many if not most of their goals are also Mr. Obama’s. He thus wants to associate the Occupiers with the Tea Party, a movement that has resonated with the American people.

But there’s the rub. Barack Obama identifies with the Occupiers because, as pollster Doug Schoen put it this week, they reflect “values that are dangerously out of touch with the broad mass of the American people … and are bound by a deep commitment to radical left-wing policies.”

That’s not the Tea Party. That’s the opposite.  Continue reading at:  realclearpolitics.com.

 

Free Market Forum – Webcasts, October 27-28, 2011

Hillsdale always has great stuff. ADB

 

OBAMA WANTS CONGRESS BYPASSED

Executive Dictatorship: Obama Instructs Advisers to Push Through Stimulus Projects Without Pesky ‘Congressional Authorization’

Hat tip:  The Blaze.com

 

Hernando, Citrus school districts snub Glenn Beck group’s Constitution booklets

BROOKSVILLE — It started as an act of patriotic philanthropy.

Last month, the Nature Coast 912 Project donated thousands of U.S. Constitution booklets to the Hernando and Citrus school. The goal was to get a pocket-sized booklet into the hands of every eighth-grader.

The donation, however, prompted officials in both districts to consider: When does a copy of the Constitution and other historic documents become political material or advertising?

Officials in both districts concluded the booklets have some problematic characteristics, so they won’t be handed out as the 912 Project group had hoped.

“It doesn’t matter what group it is,” Hernando superintendent Bryan Blavatt said. “The question is, are we giving out resources that are primary sources … or is it subject to opinions and viewpoints and selective choice of materials?”

Hernando received 2,500 booklets for seven schools; Citrus got 1,315 for five schools. The booklets were not all identical and some came with additional material. All have a stamp or sticker of the “Nature Coast Pasco-Hernando-Citrus 912 Groups,” and some included the group’s website address, said Mike Mullen, assistant superintendent for Citrus schools.

Some booklets donated to Hernando were published by the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, whose website describes its mission as serving communities through “fellowship, compassion, and dedication to God, family and country.”

These booklets contained other primary texts such as the Declaration of Independence, Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and Patrick Henry’s Call to Arms. A foreword to the booklet reads: “Unless Americans remember and preserve our rich heritage of liberty, a new Dark Age of tyranny could lock the majority of mankind into the harsh chains of totalitarian slavery.”

Some booklets donated to Hernando were accompanied by a one-page sheet from the Cato Institute, a conservative think tank, with the heading “Constitutional Authority.” The sheet asserts that the Constitution has been misinterpreted, leading to “a government that’s effectively unlimited … and increasingly unaffordable.”

Booklets donated to the Citrus district refers the reader to books published by the National Center for Constitutional Studies, a conservative, religious-themed organization formed by Mormon political writer Cleon Skousen, who argued that the founding of the United States was a divine miracle. One of Skousen’s books referenced in the booklet, The 5,000 Year Leap, is often cited by political commentator and 912 Project founder Glenn Beck, who wrote a foreword for a later edition.

“When you add all of those things together, it’s not just a simple Constitution,” Mullen said. “You’ve got to be real careful when you’re passing out information to the kids.”

The National Center for Constitutional Studies is not a credible source of Constitutional history, said Doug Kendall, founder and president of the Constitutional Accountability Center (CAC), a Washington, D.C.-based think tank and law firm.

“I don’t know that there can be too many copies of the Constitution in circulation, but when it comes to teaching about the Constitution, I think we should trust our teachers and the history books, not the tea party or the 912 Project or any other ideological group,” Kendall said.

Citrus school officials plan to return the booklets because the School Board attorney concluded the additional content in them conflicted with the district policy forbidding the distribution of political materials, Mullen said.

In Hernando, which has a similar policy, principals were told to make the booklets available for students who wanted one but not to hand them out to every student, Blavatt said.

“It’s a way to provide an opportunity for students to get the material, which was the intent of the group, and not be in a situation where we’re handing it to them and not giving them a choice,” Blavatt said.

He added: “Ninety-nine percent of the material there is valuable to students. You have to weigh that.”

Blavatt said he did not know how many of the booklets remained.

The districts’ decisions puzzled 912 Project members, said organizer Maureen Arrigale of Hudson. The group reached out to school officials last year with the idea for the donation and submitted booklets for review, Arrigale said.

“The booklets they have are the same booklets we sent them,” Arrigale said. “We’re not promoting any kind of agenda or politics whatsoever. Our name just happens to be on the book.”

The Nature Coast 912 group donated money to the East Pasco Tea Party Patriots to purchase Constitution booklets for Pasco County schools this year, Arrigale said.

The Patriots donated Constitutions to the district last year and officials had no concerns about passing them out, said district spokeswoman Summer Romagnoli. The booklets had the stamp of the East Pasco Tea Party Patriots, but that in itself is not a problem, Romagnoli said.

“As long as it’s not included with any sort of political message,” she said.

Mullen acknowledged that staffers had reviewed the booklets but did not research the National Center for Constitutional Studies publications or the 912 Project until the Times inquired. He also noted that the booklets reviewed by staff did not have the 912 Group stamp or sticker.

“I know they claim they’re not a political group, but they have direct links from their website that do take you to partisan political websites,” Mullen said.

Beck founded the 912 Project in 2009 on nine principles and 12 values he says represent the spirit of the American people on the day after the Sept. 11 attacks. Among them: “I believe in God and He is the center of my life.” The group is non-partisan, but its conservative membership overlaps with the tea party movement.

Members of the 912 Project and tea party groups lament what they see as a lack of accurate instruction in U.S. history classes.

“What we’re out to do is educate people that things in the Bill of Rights are being taken away from us and are being misconstrued,” said Nature Coast 912 member and Hudson resident Annette Weeks.

This past spring, the Tea Party Patriots started a nationwide campaign to remind teachers that a 2004 federal law requires public schools to teach Constitution lessons the week of Sept. 17, commemorating the day the document was signed. The Patriots started an adopt-a-school program and members encouraged school officials to use curriculum provided by the National Center for Constitutional Studies.

Tony Marrero can be reached at (352) 848-1431 or tmarrero@sptimes.com.
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Police illegally confiscate citizens’ cell phone cameras at Rep. Steve Chabot (R), Ohio town hall

Congressman Chabot town hall meeting – North Avondale Recreation Center – August 22nd, 2011  Chabot’s town hall was fully funded by the taxpayers and took place at a public location.

The video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R0a8CcegxI&feature=player_embedded#!

Photographers’ rights: http://www.tutorial9.net/tutorials/photography-tutorials/your-rights-as-a-photographer/

An article:  http://www.pixiq.com/article/ohio-congressman-bans-cameras-from-town-hall-meeting

First They Came for the Communists

“First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out.  Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out.  Then they came for the Jews, but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out.  And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.”  Martin Niemoeller

Modern day version:  First they came for the Tea Party…

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