By Robert J. McCarthy, Buffalo News Tea party activists, slumbering since last fall’s gubernatorial election, may be awakening and ready to challenge the Republican process for choosing a successor to Christopher J. Lee in the 26th Congressional District. Rus Thompson of Grand Island, a tea party figure who was active in Carl P. Paladino’s GOP [...]
By Henry J. Reske, NewsMax The Muslim faith has been responsible for atrocities throughout history so don’t try “to blow sunshine up my butt” about attacks on Americans, Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., told an Islamic activist who tried to confront him at a town hall meeting. West was responding to a challenge from Nezar Hamze, [...]
By Michael O’Brien, The Hill “You’re talking about being an ideologue? If you’re looking for one, I’m not it,” said Sen. Scott Brown. Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) said he doesn’t consider himself a member of the Tea Party movement and would welcome any primary challenger. Brown, the Republican senator from deep-blue Massachusetts whose win in [...]
By Kyle Cheney, Boston Herald Although the epicenter of the fight is 1,200 miles away, Massachusetts labor groups plan to rally late Tuesday afternoon on Beacon Hill in support of Wisconsin public employees whose collective bargaining power would be stripped under a proposal by Republican Gov. Scott Walker. But they won’t be alone. The Greater [...]
By Marc Caputo, St. Petersburg Times Sen. John Thrasher, former state GOP chairman, looks like he has filed a bill (SB830) to starve unions like the Florida Education Association, SEIU, AFL-CIO, firefighters, police unions or AFSCME by banning the Democratic-leaning organizations from using salary deductions for political purposes. The legislation also says any “public employer [...]
By LaborUnionReport, RedState On Tuesday afternoon, the GOP-led House in New Hampshire voted 221-131 to make the Granite State the 23rd state in the nation to outlaw unions’ ability to have workers fired for not paying union dues. The bill to make New Hampshire a Right-to-Work state now moves to the New Hampshire Senate where [...]
By Matt Viser, Globe Staff WASHINGTON – Former Governor Mitt Romney has struggled to attract support among Tea Party activists in pockets throughout the country, but he appears to have secured broad support among the movement’s supporters in New Hampshire. In a new WMUR poll, his favorability among supporters of the Tea Party is strikingly [...]
By Evan McMorris-Santoro, TalkingPointsMemo Hours after Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) announced his campaign for the seat being vacated by Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), tea party umbrella group FreedomWorks, best known as the arm of the movement led by former House Republican leader Dick Armey, endorsed Flake in an email blast sent by its PAC. “Endorsing [...]
BY PATRICK KREY , The New American The Philadelphia Daily News reported on a disturbing story that should horrify every gun owner in this nation. Brian Aitken, a 25-year-old successful media consultant who was going through a separation with his wife, was in the process of selling his home in Colorado and moving to a [...]
By Rory Cooper, The Heritage Foundation Last night, on a purely partisan 47–51 vote, the Senate rejected an amendment that would have stopped government unions from organizing Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees. The vote was made possible by an announcement two Fridays ago by President Barack Obama political appointee and TSA Administrator John Pistole. Pistole [...]
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