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We the Tea Party Patriots: a Manifesto
Mission Statement: We the Tea Party Patriots are here to bring the common people of the United States together supporting limited government and free markets. Our mission is to branch out, bring forth, and gather all citizens who want to secure our Constitutional rights.
Core Values:
1. Grassroots political party: Return to the roots of our founding fathers who wrote the constitution for the people of the United States.
2. Fiscal Responsibility: Responsibility by the government to respect and abide to the freedom of how an individual spends the money earned by the fruits of their labor. Also the government needs to be responsible for government spending and responsible to monitor banks.
3. Limited Government: We support the rights set forth by the constitution, for the government is of the people, by the people, and for the people. We support the personal liberty, within the law.
4. Free Markets: We support the return to free market given by personal liberty. We oppose the government to interfere with any small or private business.
5. Health Care: Health care is an infringement of our personal rights. The government should not dictate that we have to have health insurance or who has it. As well as pay for other’s health care through taxes.
This is what We the Tea Party Patriots believe in. We are determined to spread our ideas to patriots all over the United States. Through our core values we want change. - text Las Cruces Tea Party on Twitter!
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Survey: Four in 10 Tea Party members are Dems or independents - The Hill's Ballot Box
Four in 10 Tea Party members are either Democrats or Independents, according to a new national survey.
The findings provide one of the most detailed portraits to date of the grassroots movement that started last year.
The national breakdown of the Tea Party composition is 57 percent Republican, 28 percent Independent and 13 percent Democratic, according to three national polls by the Winston Group, a Republican-leaning firm that conducted the surveys on behalf of an education advocacy group. Two-thirds of the group call themselves conservative, 26 are moderate and 8 percent say they are liberal.
The Winston Group conducted three national telephone surveys of 1,000 registered voters between December and February. Of those polled, 17 percent – more than 500 people — said they were “part of the Tea Party movement.”
“It’s a good sample size,” said David Winston, the polling firm’s director. “It will certainly give us an initial base to follow where these folks are.”
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notes Don't Confuse Dissent With DisloyaltyWhat a difference a few years makes. Back during the Bush era there was harsh criticism of the anti-Iraq war protestors as being disloyal to the USA. Protestors retorted "don't confuse dissent with disloyalty". They claimed to be patriotic Americans who loved their country but were against the war. As an aside, most were white as I recall. Fast forward to the current day, and there is a growing angry group of dissenters known as the TEA Party, a loosely affiliated group who believes the US government is over taxing and over spending. They have become the focus of much vitriol in the left wing and the media. They have been made fun of, branded as racists and accused of being disloyal. Even though there are a few nuts in the group, just as there are in any group, the TEA Party is made up mostly of ordinary Americans who have become fearful of their government. They are exercising their rights to protest, and they have done so peacefully, if noisily. Is there an echo in here? Funny how so many of the anti- Iraq war crowd forgot the righteousness of demonstrating for a cause, unless of course it is theirs. So next time you make a derisive comment of call a TEA Party member a term that is a sexual innuendo, or worse unpatriotic or disloyal, try to remember that it was you just a few short years ago in the same spot. Don't confuse dissent with disloyalty. -
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The Tea Party’s Stance on Government Spending
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Tea Party protesters Rally Outside Obama Speech
GLENSIDE, Pa. — About 200 protesters turned out to voice their opposition at President Barack Obama’s health care reform speech at a suburban Philadelphia college.
Obama is speaking at Arcadia University in Glenside, just outside of Philadelphia.
Protesters associating themselves with the tea party movement rallied outside the school, many holding signs denouncing Obama’s proposals.
The president is visiting the school as he tries to build support for legislation that would overhaul the health insurance industry.
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New Meeting! New Location!
The Las Cruces TEA Party will meet on Thursday, March 4, 2010 in the Rotary Community Room at the Mesilla Valley Hospice, 299 Montana Avenue, Las Cruces, NM 88005. The meeting room can be accessed from the parking lot on Foster Rd just past the First Light Federal Credit Union. The meeting room is located through the center double doors on the face of the building. The meeting will start at 6:30PM.
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Coffee Party USA
Our new opposition…
“MISSION: The Coffee Party Movement gives voice to Americans who want to see cooperation in government. We recognize that the federal government is not the enemy of the people, but the expression of our collective will,…
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Local Tea Party Supporter
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NMSU's The Roundup Coverage:
Tea Party Protests Federal Wilderness Act
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Stop Socialism
I just cannot stand how this country is moving step by step towards pure socialism. Socialism is not what America is about and guys...
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Someone has come up with an alternative to the Tea Part- the supposed people’s movement against big government and...
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Tea Party Recharge The Movement Rally in Minneapolis on February 27
There was a Tea Party Rally on February 27, 2010 outside Representative Keith...
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How glorious is the tea-party movement? Some talk of its purity of heart, its patriotic spontaneity, and its abundance of republican virtue. To hear...
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