tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32826899959437225552023-11-15T06:15:59.359-08:00Tea-Party-UKGreg_L-W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03702733467535493491noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3282689995943722555.post-83511869704382825272011-08-14T05:12:00.000-07:002011-08-15T06:28:20.759-07:00Timeline of the Rise of the Tea Party Movement - USA<div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Timeline of the Rise of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Tea Party movement">Tea Party Movement</a></b></span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The name "Tea Party" is a reference to the Boston Tea Party, a protest by colonists who objected to a British tax on tea in 1773 and demonstrated by dumping British tea taken from docked ships into the harbor. The basic objection was founded on 'No taxation without representation'<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>1990s - </b>During this decade and even earlier anti-tax protesters were known to use the theme of the Boston Tea Party as a rallying point for <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Day" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Tax Day">Tax Day</a> protests (on April 15).</span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>December 16, 2007 - </b>Ron Paul, a Republican Party Congressman, commemorates the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party as part of a fundraising event for the presidential primaries. Among the issues advocated were an end to the Federal Reserve System and fiat money. Also advocated was an upholding of States’ rights and an end to U..S. involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq.</span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>January 24, 2009 - </b>Trevor Leach who was serving as the Young Americans for Liberty in New York chairman was the organizer of a “Tea Party” protest against more than one hundred taxes (including an “obesity tax”) being proposed by the state’s governor, David Paterson.</span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Also protested was the government’s overspending. Some of the protesters at this event were adorned with the traditional headdresses of Native Americans like the colonists in the original Boston Tea Party wore during their protest when they threw tea in the Boston Harbor to protest British taxation. </span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Thanks for visiting Tea Party Platform - Tea Party Movement</span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>February, 2009 - </b>A conservative Seattle blogger named Keli Carender organizes a protest which did not use the term “Tea Party” but carried a similar theme. </span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The protest took place in Seattle on February 16, 2009 on the day previous to the signing of the stimulus bill by President Obama. Carender called the event a Porkulus Protest and it was attended by about 120 people though they only had four days notice at most.</span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Among the many calls Carender made to draw interest to the event was a call to Michelle Malkin who was a contributor to Fox News and a conservative author. Carender requested that Malkin use her popular blog to publicize the event.</span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Thanks for visiting the Tea Party Movement Platform</span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>February 27, 2009 - </b>Carender holds a second protest and the attendance is more than double of the first protest.</span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>April 15, 2009 (Tax Day) - </b>Twelve hundred people gather for a Tea Party protest.</span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>February 19, 2009 - </b><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Rick Santelli">Rick Santelli</a>, a Business News editor for the CNBC television station, is broadcasting live from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange when he began commenting negatively on the government’s plans to refinance mortgages in the U.S., which had been announced by the government on the previous day.</span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Among Santelli’s comments were claims that the government was “promoting bad behavior” because it was subsidizing the mortgages of “losers.” During his complaints about the government program Santelli suggested to his viewing audience that they should all hold a “tea party” on July 1, 2009 so the traders could dump their derivatives in the Chicago River. </span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The traders who were near Santelli on the trading floor cheered when they heard his comments and the show’s hosts in the CNBC studio also displayed amusement at his comments. A video of this then became viral on the internet after it was shown on the Drudge Report.</span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Within a day a website called ChicagoTeaParty.com was live on the internet (the site was originally registered in August of 2008 by Zack Christenson, a radio producer in Chicago) and the website reTeaParty.com was purchased with the goal of coordinating Tea Party protests and demonstrations that were being organized for July 4, 2009. </span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Santelli’s comments on the trading floor and the resulting publicity is believed by most to be the primary event that led to the rapid rise of the modern-day Tea Party movement and the coalescing of many people around the term “Tea Party” to signify a distaste for particular government actions.</span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Thanks for visiting the Tea Party Movement Platform</span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>February 20, 2009 - </b>A Facebook page is set up to rally people to organize Tea Party protests nationally. The result was the coordination of a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_protests" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Tea Party protests">Nationwide Chicago Tea Party</a> protest in forty different cities on February 27.</span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Thanks for visiting Tea Party Platform - Tea Party Movement</span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>February 27, 2009 - </b>The first modern-day Tea Party movement to take place on a national scale occurs.</span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>March 4, 2009 - </b>The website reTeaParty.com is receiving substantial traffic reported at up to 11,000 visits per day. </span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">September 20, 2010 - Barack Obama attends a CNBC-sponsored town hall discussion during which he says that the challenge “for the Tea Party movement is to identify specifically what would you do” in regards to where spending should be cut. </span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>April 15, 2009 - </b>Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House, talks at a new York City Tea Party rally.</span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>January 19, 2010 - </b>A special election to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat leads to the election of Scott Brown who has significant Tea Party support.</span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>April 13, 2010 - </b>Tea Party supported Charles Perry is victorious in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.gop.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Republican Party (United States)">GOP</a> primary against an established Republican opponent, the incumbent Delwin Jones. Perry wins unopposed in the general election on November 2, 2010.</span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>May, 2010 -</b> Rand Paul, backed by the Tea Party, wins the Super Tuesday GOP Senate primary in Kentucky against established Republican Trey Grayson. Paul gets about sixty percent of the vote and states that the Tea Party movement is about “saving our country from a mountain of debt.” Rand goes on to win the Senate seat. </span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>May 8, 2010 - </b>The established Republican Senator Bob Bennett from Utah is defeated in the GOP primary by Mike Lee, an attorney from Utah. Lee’s victory as seen as a Tea Party movement success as the Tea Party was against the return of Bennett.</span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>June 8, 2010 - </b>Established Republican party candidate Diane Gooch is defeated by Tea Party supported Anna C. Little in the New Jersey’s Republican congressional primary. </span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>July, 2010 - </b>Michele Bachman, a U.S. Representative and a Republican from Minnesota, forms and chairs the House congressional Tea Party Caucus which focuses on the principles of the Tea Party movement including limited government, adhering to the United States Constitution, and insisting upon fiscal responsibility. In August of 2010 the Tea Party Caucus was comprised of forty-nine Republican representatives.</span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">After the Caucus was formed Michele Bachman raised $10 million for the MichelePAC political action committee and funds were distributed to the election campaigns of Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Sharon Angle and Christine O’Donnell.</span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Thanks for visiting Tea Party Platform - Tea Party Movement</span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>August 24, 2010 -</b> United States Senator Lisa Murkowski is defeated by Joe Miller, an Alaska lawyer with Tea Party backing. Murkowski had been appointed to the Senate seat by her father, Frank Murkowski, the state’s governor, who had held the Senate seat for three decades before becoming governor. Murkowski remained in the race as a write-in candidate and then won in the general election.</span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>September, 2010 - </b>The group Tea Party Patriots announces an anonymous one million dollar donation.</span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>September 12, 2009 - </b>A Taxpayer March on Washington is organized and Tea Party protesters walk towards the U.S. Capitol.</span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>November, 2010 -</b> In the midterm elections, nine candidates for the Senate and 129 candidates for the House receive significant Tea Party support. They are all Republicans and they upset established Republican party candidates in numerous primaries.</span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>August, 2011</b> - Ron Paul defeated at Iowa Straw Poll by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Bachmann">Michele Bachmann</a></span><br />
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<div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Preamble: </b>The Tea Party Movement is an all-inclusive American grassroots movement with the belief that everyone is created equal and deserves an equal opportunity to thrive in these United States where they may “pursue life, liberty and happiness” as stated in the <b><i>Declaration of Independence</i></b><i> </i>and guaranteed by the <b><i><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="United States Constitution">Constitution of the United States</a></i></b>. </span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">No one is excluded from participation in the Tea Party Movement. Everyone is welcomed to join in seeking to achieve the Tea Party Movement goals, which are as follows:</span></div><div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>1. Eliminate Excessive Taxes - </b>Excessively high taxes are a burden for those exercising their personal liberty to work hard and prosper as afforded by the Constitution. A fiscally <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsible_government" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Responsible government">responsible government</a> protects the freedom of its citizens to enjoy the fruits of their own labor without interference from a government that has exceeded its necessary size, scope and reach into the lives of its citizens.<br />
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<div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>2. Eliminate the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_debt" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Government debt">National Debt</a> - </b>By implementing fiscally conservative policies at all levels of government, progress can be made toward eliminating the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="United States public debt">U.S. National Debt</a>. Massive increases in the National Debt have created and continue to create a huge burden for the next generation of Americans, thus imperiling the country’s short-term and long-term economic health and prosperity.</span></div><br />
<div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>3. Eliminate <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deficit_spending" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Deficit spending">Deficit Spending</a> - </b>All deficit spending must be eliminated immediately. We insist that government representatives at all levels maintain a fiscally responsible budget and balance the books as would be expected of any American business.</span></div><br />
<div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>4. Protect Free Markets - </b>America’s free enterprise system allows businesses to thrive as they compete in the open marketplace and strive toward ever better services and products. Allowing free markets to prosper unfettered by government interference is what propelled this country to greatness with an enduring belief in the industriousness and innovations of the populace.</span></div><br />
<div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span>5. Abide by the Constitution of the United States - </b>The <i>U.S. Constitution</i> is the supreme law of the land and must be adhered to without exception at all levels of government. This includes the <i>Bill of Rights </i>and other <i>Amendments</i> to the<i> U.S. Constitution</i> and their provisions designed to protect states’ rights and individual liberties.</span></div><br />
<div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span>6. Promote Civic Responsibility - </b>Citizen involvement at the grassroots level allows the voice of the American people to be heard and directs the political behaviors of our representatives at both the local and national level so they, in turn, may be most effective in working to preserve the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%2C_liberty_and_the_pursuit_of_happiness" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness">life, liberty and pursuit of happiness</a> of this country’s citizens.</span></div><br />
<div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span>7. Reduce the Overall Size of Government - </b>A bloated bureaucracy creates wasteful spending that plagues our government. Reducing the overall size, scope and reach of government at both local and national levels will help to eliminate inefficiencies that result in deficit spending which adds to our country’s debt.</span></div><br />
<div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span>8. Believe in the People - </b>The American people, given their guaranteed freedoms, will thrive in a democratic, capitalist environment which allows individuals to strive toward ever greater achievements, innovations and the efficient production of needed and valued goods and services.</span></div><br />
<div style="font: 17px times; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span>9. Avoid the Pitfalls of Politics -</b> American politics is burdened by big money from lobbyists and special interests with an undue influence on the peoples’ representatives. The Tea Party movement is seen as a threat to the entrenched political parties and thus is the continual target of smear campaigns and misrepresentation of its ideals. We choose not to respond to these attacks except to strongly and explicitly disavow any and all hate speech, any and all violence as well as insinuations of violence, and any and all extreme and fringe elements that bring discredit to the Tea Party Movement. We are a peaceful movement and respect other's opinions and views even though they do not agree with our own. We stand by the Tea Party beliefs and goals and choose to focus our energies on ensuring that our government representatives do the same. </span></div><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 16px;">10. Maintain Local Independence - </span></b><span style="font-size: 16px;">The strength and resilience of a grassroots movement is the ability of citizens at the local level to determine their own platforms, agendas and priorities free of an overriding central leadership. Exercising the clearly stated message of the Tea Party movement by its nature involves discourse about which policies and candidates best hold to our stated principles, and these various opinions should flourish and evolve at the local level.</span><br />
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