Occupy Richmond to Tea Party: We’re on Your Side Against City Hall
Activism, Headlines Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
The Richmond Tea Party has found an unlikely ally in its fight against a City Hall tax audit: the Occupy movement.
15 Iowa tea party-related groups reject Christine O’Donnell’s meetup invitation
Activism Friday, December 2nd, 2011
By JENNIFER JACOBS, DesMoinesRegister.com Fifteen tea party-related groups in Iowa today rejected an invitation from Delaware Republican Christine O’Donnell to meet to talk about which GOP candidate most deserves an endorsement. The independent tea party groups, 912 groups and patriot groups in a letter today expressed “deep concern regarding the event.” “Specifically of concern, Ms. [...]
Virginia’s Tea Party True Believer Aims Higher
Activism Thursday, December 1st, 2011
By ALEX ALTMAN | Time.com Republican sources say Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia’s crusading attorney general, is “highly likely” to announce a run for governor in 2013, as the Richmond Times-Dispatch and Washington Post report. A bid could set up an interesting contested Republican primary against the state’s lieutenant governor, Bill Bolling, who is expected to run [...]
Tea Party leader takes issue with Powell blaming them for problems in America
Activism Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
By Jack Minor – Greenly Gazette A local leader with the tea party has taken issue with statements made by former Gen. Colin Powell saying the Tea Party was to blame for the divisiveness in Washington, while omitting any similar criticism of leftist groups. In an interview with ABC’s Christiane Amanpour, Powell was asked about [...]
Tea Party Alleges Double Standard by Occupy-Friendly Mayor in Virginia
Activism, Breaking News, Headlines Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
By Perry Chiaramonte | FoxNews.com A Tea Party chapter in Virginia is alleging that it was audited by the City of Richmond after it complained that the local Occupy movement was receiving special treatment by the mayor. The Richmond Tea Party said the city charged it $10,000 to hold three rallies in Kanawha Plaza — [...]
Tea Party PACs help bankroll Ted Cruz Senate bid
Activism Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Tea Party organizations that championed the congressional upset victories of Michele Bachmann in Minnesota, Scott Brown in Massachusetts and Marco Rubio in Florida now have their eyes – and their pocketbooks – aimed at Texas.
Second Michigan Democrat pleads no contest in ‘fake’ tea party scheme
Activism Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Former Oakland County Democratic party official Jason Bauer pleaded no contest Monday to five felony charges related to an alleged 2010 plan to place “fake” tea party candidates on multiple election ballots in Michigan, the Detroit Free Press reports.
Gingrich, Romney Tied; Former Speaker Cites Tea-Party Appeal
Activism Monday, November 21st, 2011
By FRANK JAMES, NPR Newt Gingrich’s moment in the sun in the 2012 race for the Republican presidential nomination stretched into the Thanksgiving holiday week with a new USA Today-Gallup poll placing him and Mitt Romney in a statistical tie at 22 percent and 21 percent of support, respectively. The poll of GOP and Republican-leaning [...]
Poll: Tea Party 43%, Occupy 37%
Activism Thursday, November 17th, 2011
You say you want a revolution? Well, you know, we all want to change the world — but not really. The liberal Public Policy Polling reported that the American people are turning their back on the Occupy movement as it inevitably becomes more angry, more violent and more crazy.
Tea party official says movement is alive and well in Iowa
Activism Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
DES MOINES — Dan Lucore says the movement isn’t dead – far from it.
