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2010 Cleveland Tax Day Tea Party

Don't miss the Cleveland Tea Party Patriots 2nd Annual Tax Day Tea Party

• Date: Tax Day April 15, 2010
• Time: 4pm - 6:30pm
• Location: Mall C / Downtown Cleveland
• Address: E.6th & Lakeside

Click here for more details on speakers & the event.

Tea Party Patriots take on California GOP

A post of mine on the Cleveland Tea Party Patriots Blog...

Since first getting involved with the Tea Party Patriots I have always said and believed - this must not be a partisan group - but it must be a political group. It must be a group that will get involved with all level of politics. This means having fellow Tea Party Patriots on county party central & executive committees. Being a conservative, for me this would be on a Republican county Central Committee - which I am.

For me, I believe most of our politicians are lost and more concerned with getting re-elected, but I am more upset, disappointed and disgusted with do-nothing Republicans more concerned about renaming the Democrat Party the Democrat Socialist Party on a national level and the complete incompetence of the GOP at the state and local level.

As a Central Committee member of the Republican Party of Cuyahoga County (RPCC) I have been very outspoken and vocal critic against the 'social club' that has rendered the party ineffective. This would range from taking the powers of the party to task for spending over $400k in salaries and operating expenses and being unable to get anyone elected or effect policy, buckling to the 'social club' members and failing to come out against a forced sales tax increase for the proposed MedMart, completely silent on the recent domestic registry created in Cleveland, and my favorite -- our party chairman condoning officers and members of our party financially supporting Democrat candidates running against endorsed Republican candidates.

It is because of this crap - I knew the only way to have effective change is at this level. Why? Because it is from within the party structures (D & R) that the candidates come, get their initial financial and grass-roots support.

Let's put it this way.... how often is it that when you go to the polls, you find yourself choosing between what you feel is the lesser of two evils? Pretty often huh? So, if this is where, on both sides of the ticket (D & R), we can effect the candidates from which we choose - wouldn't it only make sense that this would be one of the most important tasks we could accomplish?

It is having a say and a vote in these forums where we can challenge the potential candidates. This is where the candidates are given their endorsements - having voting members of Tea Party Patriots on these committees - is where we can force them to earn their endorsements.

Currently we are allowing the party members (Social Clubs) of the Donkey Brigade & Elephant Clan dictate too us the direction of our country. This is ass-backwards! We are to dictate too them - the direction of our country. The County Central & Executive Committees of both parties is where we can have a direct effect. Though I know many Democrats with conservative values it is the Republican hacks that fear this the most - this is why they try to be dismissive of the Tea Party Patriots.

Unlike some groups, the Tea Party Patriots - not only understand this - but are acting. You will see below how Ron Nehring, Chairman of the CA Republican Party, was thrilled spitless when confronted by Mark Meckler, one of the National Coordinators for the Tea Party Patriots and some San Diego Central Committee members...

Apparently, Ron Nehring, the Chairman of the California Republican Party made an appearance at the San Diego County Central Committee meeting on Monday night. In addition to refusing to answer Central Committee member questions about his party "expenses" which have been raised in the media, Nehring was also dismissive of the questions of large numbers of Tea Party Patriots who were present.

Some believe he might have been in attendance to thwart a rumored no confidence vote against the County Chairman, Tony Krvaric. In any event, Nehring refused to answer Central Committee Member questions regarding his personal expenses, which have been raised in the media and left unaddressed by the Chairman. He was also apparently somewhat dismissive of questions by Tea Party Patriot, Sarah Bond regarding the Party's actions on the tax hike propositions on the upcoming special ballot. When asked directly by a Sarah about what the California Republican Party has done to defeat Proposition 1A after being so late to the party to take a stand against it, our Patriot activist reports.

"So after Nehring left the stage (he wouldn’t take my question in front of the meeting), I asked him point blank, “…We are holding a NO-ON-1A Tax Revolt here in San Diego this Saturday. What can we tell the Tea Party Patriot protesters, about what the California Republican Party has done for and spent on NO-ON-1A?”

Nehring’s answer, “What would be enough? One million? Two? I can’t give a number that will satisfy them. That’s not what this is about.”

You can read the whole torrid story here.

While it makes for amusing reading, it also shows how desperately out of touch the leadership of the California Republicans remains, in their continuing disdain for and dismissal of the tea party movement. But the story doesn't end there. Mr. Nehring wasn't yet done digging this hole. More...

As you can see, this is where the fight starts and where we can have a direct effect. Good Job guys!!!

Calling All Tea Party Patriot Veterans

From Cleveland Tea Party Patriot Blog

Cleveland Tea Party Patriots

For Immediate Release

5/16/09

Contact: Doug Angyal
madhatterl7@yahoo.com

Cleveland Tea Party Patriot Veterans Wanted

Join us in the Parma Memorial Day Parade

Our veteran coordinator, Doug Angyal (U.S. Army) is inviting all fellow Tea Party Patriots who are veterans, and all veterans who support the Tea Party Patriots, to march in the Parma Memorial Day Parade.

The Parma Memorial Day Parade is being sponsored by the Parma Disabled American Vets (#116). The .75 mile parade will start at 9:00am and will proceed down Ridge Rd. to Parma City Hall where there will be a Flag raising and Memorial Day ceremonies.

The Vietnam Veterans of America (Chapter 15) will be doing the Honor Guard duties and Mr. Tommy Farkas, the last known living Iwo Jima veteran in the Cleveland area, will be the Grand Marshall.Military uniforms and fatigues are welcome and encouraged, but not required. If you have a classic car and wish to drive it in the parade please inform Doug when you RSVP.

Please RSVP to Doug (madhatterl7@yahoo.com) no later than Friday 5/22/09.

For all others, please join us in honoring and remembering our soldiers and veterans. For without them and the sacrifices they have made for our country -- we would not have a USA for God to Bless!

Thank You

Cleveland Tea Party Patriots
www.clevelandteaparty.com
Cleveland Tea Party Patriots Blog

The Cleveland Tea Party Patriots are a non-partisan, grass roots group of private citizens committed to smaller government and responsible spending.

Cleveland Tea Party Patriots Host Independence Day Freedomfest

Cleveland Tea Party Patriot's

For Immediate Release

April 29, 2009

Contact: Cleveland Tea Party Patriots
clevelandteaparty@gmail.com

Turnin' Up The Heat

Declare Independence From Tax & Spend Politicians

In conjuction with the Nationwide Tea Party Movement the Cleveland Tea Party Patriots are hosting a Freedomfest to celebrate our country's independence and declare our freedom from the tax & spend politicians of today.

When: July 3, 2009
Where: TBA
Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Please help us "Turn Up The Heat" and join us in downtown Cleveland on July 3rd at 4:00pm to kick-off a weekend of celebrations. After the event, join fellow your Tea Party Patriots in attending the Cleveland Indians game and the after game fireworks.

Be sure to check the Cleveland Tea Party Patriot website where you can register for the event, sign up for our future newsletter, get Tea Party gear, volunteer for the event, show your financial support or share your ideas.

Stay tuned for more details!

Cleveland Tea Party Patriots
A non-partisan grass roots movement

FBI Spied on Tea Party Patriots

This great post on the Westlake 9/12 Glen Beck Meet Up Group forum section was pointed out to me by.... well, I'm afraid to say. Don't want them being followed by the keystone kops in black helicopters!

FBI spied on TEA Party Americans
Exclusive to the Northeast Intelligence Network & Canada Free Press

Douglas J. Hagmann, Director & Judi McLeod, Founding Editor, Canada Free Press

19 April 2009:

Even as average Americans were planning to get out in towns and cities to demonstrate against Big Government and Big Taxes, Federal Bureau of Intelligence Investigation (FBI) surveillance was being unleashed upon them. In fact, unsuspecting Tax Day TEA Party participants were being closely watched during the demonstration planning stages in a covert operation that began on or about March 23, 2009.

If you one of the estimated 750,000 Americans who attended one of about 600 TEA parties last week, you might have seen media cameras covering the event. Media cameras, however, were not the only cameras taking video at these events, something that has at least one current FBI agent concerned over the future of America. According to this agent - the same agent who provided the Northeast Intelligence Network (NEIN) exclusively the unreleased photographs of the 11 missing Egyptian students who were the subject of a FBI BOLO in August 2006–placed his concerns for true patriots of the U.S. over his own career when he confided that covert surveillance was “planned and performed” at each of the TEA parties that took place last Tuesday.

“Listen to what I am saying,” stated the source during an interview with Doug Hagmann, founder (NEIN). “The Department of Homeland Security Intelligence Assessment that is receiving so much attention is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, and the true patriotic citizens of this country are on the Titanic. This is what bothers me. But is goes far beyond that assessment. There have been very significant changes made over the last few years that redirect the focus and assets of the intelligence community internally. These changes have greatly accelerated under this administration, and the threats have been redefined to include those who used to be patriots. It’s not only chilling but absolutely insulting to God-fearing Americans.”

According to this unimpeachable source, a single-page confidential directive issued by the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC (FBIHQ) was sent to each of the 56 field offices located across the United States on or about March 23, 2009, instructing the Special Agents in Charge (SACs) of those offices to verify the date, time and location of each TEA Party within their region and supply that information to FBI headquarters in Washington. The source stated this correspondence termed the TEA parties “political demonstrations,” and added that the dissemination of the directive was very tightly controlled. “Not all agents were privy to this correspondence,” stated the source, who compared the dissemination to an older “Do Not File”
classification.

In addition to obtaining or confirming the location and time of each “demonstration,” each field office was instructed to obtain or confirm the identity of the individual(s) involved in the actual planning and coordination of the event in each specific region, and include the local or regional Internet web site address, if any. The information collected by region was then reportedly sent to FBI Headquarters.

The source alleges that a second directive was issued on or about April 6, 2009 that reportedly instructed each SAC to coordinate and conduct, either at the field office level and/or with the appropriate resident agency, covert video surveillance and data collection of the participants of the TEA parties. Surveillance was to be performed from “discreet fixed or mobile positions” and was to be performed “independently and outside of the purview of local law enforcement.”

Although the level of detail collected from each operation is unclear, the information was reportedly submitted to Washington, where, “at the level of the National Security Branch (NSB), this information was to “include the office of the Directorate of Intelligence (DI), and integrated with a restricted access database, one that reportedly is accessible to only two agencies” [of the 14 agencies that comprise the U.S. intelligence community, according to the source.

“The implications to the citizens of the U.S. are ominous. It seems that there is a hostile political agenda coming from Washington that characterizes the supporters of our constitutional freedoms as threats to our domestic security, which is totally absurd. The redirection, the refocusing of domestic threats from al Qaeda cells to ‘flag waving right-wingers’ is something that has gone from a murmur a few years ago to a roar today.”

Training government-issued cameras on ordinary citizens, many of whom brought their children to an estimated 600 Tax Day TEA Parties is a page torn out of George Orwell’s 1984 and makes the term “God Bless America” more meaningful than ever.

The Northeast Intelligence Network and Canada Free Press expect the government’s denial of the surveillance of the TEA Parties to go viral as soon as this story is posted.

This is in line with Minister Totalitano's DHS report. If you have not signed the petition rejecting the DHS Right-wing Radical extremist report - click here - if you are interested.

Being the emcee and one of the organizers... as Senator Grendell said, I hope they spell my name right. The feeble-minded federal fools (Federal Bureau of Idiots) can try and do anything they want to me - I will enjoy playing with them. But, what upsets me most, other than the brown shirt goose stepping tactics being used against normal Americans exercising their rights, is that my fellow Cleveland Tea Party organizers and the 3000 people that attended, had nothing but goodness in their hearts. No ill will - just a love for our country!

So Mr. FBI Agent, let me let you in on a few things....

First -- Bite Me!

Second.... The Tea Party movement is now officially known as the Tea Party Patriots.

We will be having events on the 4th and many more to come - if you haven't yet, please sign up for our site. We will put you on the email list. And we're always looking for volunteers.

Furthermore, we are friendly and we don't smell... at the next event you can set your cameras up right next to the stage if you like. There is no need to hide, because we aren't.

We, the Tea Party Patriot's, and all other groups have no desire to start an armed resistance or overthrow our government - just nudge them on the right track and if necessary, give them a kick in the ass. It is only when they won't listen, that an awakened bunch of Americans will join in unity and exercise our right to free speech and have an active role in the political process - this means getting rid of the politicians that are not doing what is best for this country.

We are not extremists groups, racist, hate-mongers, etc.... we are Americans - the ones that sign your government check Mr. FBI. We will not create any "man-made" disasters, we wear no TNT laden suicide vests. Our weapons are an educated public and our founding documents.

For the record, I invite the FBI to contact the City of Cleveland Safety Director Marty Flask, Deputy Chief Green (Cleveland PD / Homeland Security Div.) and Detective King (no relation).

I was in constant contact with these individuals almost daily leading up to the event. WHY? For safety concerns brought on by the progressive liberals who were resorting to any tactics in order to disturb the rally. These above individuals can verify (and I'm sure the conversations were recorded) the intent and/or demeanor, not to mention the content of our many phone conversations. I challenge the FBI leaders to also include this in any files they may have created on the organizers or anyone who attended the Cleveland Tea Party.

I will again state... FBI leaders are more than welcome to attend events and become a Tea Party Patriot. I would also suggest joining a 9/12 group - they're great too!

The FBI or any other ABC government office can sharpen their crayons and scribble all the reports they want. It is estimated that there were over 850 Tea Parties across the United State on 4/15/09 and 1.2 million people attended and I am unaware of any violent incidents.

We had about 3000 people attend and handed out over 2000 flyer's at the Cleveland Tea Party, when we left Mall C, there was barely a scrap of paper on the ground.

We sure would make a poor bunch of radical extremists!

One last thing for the leaders of the FBI... Bite Me again!

Sign the Petition Rejecting DHS Right-Wing Extremism Report

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Date: 4/19/09
Contact: Cleveland Tea Party Committee

Are You a Radical Extremist?

The Department of Homeland Security thinks you might be!

The Department of Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano has recently classified any American who has a strong belief in our Founding Documents and our rights protected by them, as a candidate for right-wing extremism.

In defining “right-wing extremism,” the Department of Homeland Security memo targets “groups, movements, and adherents… that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority” and “groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.”

In response, we have started an online petition, "Rejection of Homeland Security Dept Right-Wing Extremism Report," requesting Director Napolitano to retract this report indicting millions of Americans wishing to excercise their rights granted to them by Providence and protected by our Constituiton. Simply put, if you ever disagree with the government - with this report, you can be labeled an right-extremist.

Please sign the petition and send it to everyone on your email list that believe our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness shall not be infringed upon. This petition will be sent to fellow Tea Party organizers & attendees across the United States.

Sign The Petition (click here)

Let's keep it rolling!

The Cleveland Tea Party Committee

www.clevelandteaparty.com

Cleveland Tea Party - A Smashing Success

Now that I have caught up with my emails, sort of, I will post on one helluva a party. The Cleveland Tax Day Tea Party was a smashing success. Since the Tea Parties are about moving forward I will not bore you with the details leading up to it. I will say at times, having my chest hair waxed would have been more painful, but the Cleveland Tea Party Committee, Glynn, Betsy, Roger, Cynthia, pushed towards one goal - the Tea Party.

I'm not a sissy that wells up and cries, but I will tell you... looking out over that crowd of of over 2500 - 3000 Americans coming together - was just awe inspiring and almost breath taking. When Adena, CJ and Doc performed all 4 verses of the Star Spangled Banner - holy crap! You could not help but get a lump in your throat and a tear in your eye as the meaning of the Tea Party and for what our country stands overwhelmed you.

From our first speaker, Jess (USAF Retired) to our keynote - Bob Frantz, it was great. There was much concern, and rightfully so, that having an elected official, OH Senator Tim Grendell, and some with political backgrounds, Jim Trakas and Sandy O'Brien, would turn this into a political hackfest. I am glad to say, those concerns were quickly dispelled. Knowing what Tim, Sandy & Jim stand for, in my heart, I knew they would be embraced by the crowd - and boy were they! In case the feds in the crowd did not hear - Grendell is spelled with two L's.

Organized Opposition

In working closely with the Cleveland Police Dept, we were prepared for throngs of organized opposition and we did not have one guy. Ooops, let me re-phrase that - we had a guy who likes guys, young guys that is. Yep, as expected, like a guy in trench coat with a bag of candy lurking around a playground, Teen Tickling Timmy was there.

Even though he may often think about tea-bagging Premier Obamao's nuts, he was given a warm welcome at our Tea Party - but he didn't think so. The "sack sniggler" tried his him/her best at disrupting the Tea Party but actually turned into fodder for some of the respectable & peaceful attendees. Click here & read his version of events, (the comments are hilarious) then click here and read Scene Magazine's description of how Timmy tip-toed away...

A few minutes later, with Phillips standing near the curb, still with his flag, Russo pointed him out to the officer. “He just threw me out!” Russo stammered. “I did not,” Phillips replied. “He can be here if he wants.” And so the cop merely says, “Well, then, that’s the end of it,” gets back in his car and pulls away.

Russo throws his hands up, walks back into the gathering. “He was threatening me,” says Russo, “following me around and screaming about my criminal conviction.”

Aw. Maybe he shoulda called for a wahhhmbulance.

NOW, to answer the biggest question from the Cleveland Tea Party... Now what? The answer is we move forward. We take the friends, contacts and info gained and mover forward with not change, but respect & restoration... respect of our Founding Documents and restoration of the values & rights for which they stand.

The first thing "WE the People" do is, say hello to Janet Napolitano. Nippleheaded Napolitano has labeled, not only our soldiers, but anyone believing in the rights endeared upon us in our Founding Documents as radicals and candidates for right-wing extremism. This is in step with an overall propaganda program headed by the MSM in which the masses are dumbed down and those resisting the re-defining of our Constitution are labeled as extremists and radicals. (Can anyone say Nazi Germany, USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, etc...?)

Click here for more pics from the Cleveland Tea Party. Video & podcasts will be up soon. Please be sure to sign up and join us. Thanks to the volunteers (Barry too), those who donated, Bob Frantz & WTAM, all the speakers, Adena, CJ & Doc for the incredible musical performances and most importantly -- the thousands in attendance who helped make this possible.

In closing, I must respectfully dispute what some of our great speakers said at the event. The Tea Parties are a movement, not a revolution. While a revolution does describe something that keeps coming round and round, this sounds too much like a spinning wheel. We are done spinning our wheels! This is a movement and we are moving forward!

Hope I'm on the List

From Americans for Limited Government

It's Tea Time!

Hello kiddies - I'm back!

I took a self-imposed break from posting while I was helping with the Cleveland Tea Party. You ask why? Well, I didn't want to give the progressive forces trying to portray the Tea Party as a partisan event. Many are unaware that one of the other organizers of the Cleveland Tea Party voted for Obama. So much for being dismissed as a partisan event.

Progessive, liberal groups (Not Democrat) like Moveon.org, Huffington Post, Media Matters, ACORN & others are doing what ever they can to disrupt these events. From creating fake Tea Party badges in attempts at inciting violence. The latest move is staging & taping of people portraying themselves as conservatives acting out against Obama.

Even though the man, Obama, who claims we are NOT a Christian nation one day, then references biblical phrases the next, is leading our left turn to socialism - the Tea Party is against wasteful spending that will bankrupt the future of our country.

Make no mistake - the Tea Party is against any elected official, party hack or group not doing what is in the best interest of everyday Americans. The Tea Party will be the first step of many needed for everyday Americans to take our country back from the polarizers, deaf, out of control politicians and any other groups redefining our Founding Documents into fitting their needs.

On a local level, you will see the local hacks and political parties of both sides are routinely taken to task on this blog. And this is where the fight must start. This non-partisan, grass roots event will bring together Americans from both sides of the political aisle fed up with the party bullshit & everyday Americans wanting our country back. Hopefully this grass roots movement will serve as a notice at all levels of government, and of both political parties, that we are here and the "weeding out" of the out of control elected officials will begin.

When learning of the original Boston Tea Party, John Adams wrote:

"The Destruction of the Tea is so bold, so daring, so firm intrepid and inflexible, and it must have so important Consequences, and so lasting, that I can't consider it as an Epocha in History."

At the Cleveland Tea Party, we will be destructing nothing more than the entitlement mind set of out of control politicians, but the consequences must be as important and as lasting.

Come join the Cleveland Tea Party on Mall C today at 4pm.

Cleveland Tax Day Tea Party Making a Splash

I would like to thank Mr. Wanger of the PD for writing about the Cleveland Tea Party that will be held on 4/15/09 at Mall C from 4-6pm, but I feel some clarification of our conversation and the event is required.

The Cleveland Tax Day Tea Party is part of the nationwide Tax Day Tea Parties. The American Family Association has joined the Nationwide Tax Day Tea Party event, naming theirs “Taxed Enough Already.”

As explained to Mr. Wanger, the Tea Party protests are against wasteful spending at the federal level and taxes being placed upon, or that will be placed upon citizens – BECAUSE of the absolutely ridiculous spending we have recently seen. The Tea Party event is NOT being held because of local taxes, but because of outlandish, uncontrollable and wasteful spending at the federal & state levels that will ultimately be paid for with our taxes, be it federal, state or local.

I am confident many of our local Mayors could find a laundry list of a lot better things to do in their communities with the millions, billions & trillions being spent on protecting field mice, studying grape genetics or bailing out irresponsible businesses.

Furthermore, the people working together on the Cleveland Tax Day Tea Party Protest are not part of or affiliated with any group. We are a group of citizens wishing to exercise our right to free speech as part of a nationwide movement. It was stressed numerous times that this event is a non-partisan event and, even though I am in the RPCC, and while they are aware of and support the event, they are not involved in the planning and/or staging of the event.

Some of the lefty bloggers have correctly pointed out that I am a member of the Republican Party of Cuyahoga County. But they somehow missed that I am not above, be it locally, statewide or national, challenging our party leaders, poor candidates or feeble thoughts. A quick review of this blog will verify that.

You can pretty much say - I am not at the top of their Christmas card list and they would not shed a tear - if I was no longer involved. In fact, I'd best most would encourage it!

The location of Mall C was chosen first and foremost because of the available space. Originally planned for Public Square, due to the expected crowd we changed the location to minimize any negative impact it would cause on rush hour & pedestrian traffic. And yes, as pointed out in the article – Mall C will most likely be the location of the proposed MedMart, which will be funded by a sales tax forced on consumers in Cuyahoga County. But, it was repeatedly stressed numerous times throughout the conversation with Mr. Wanger, that this non-partisan event is being staged by private citizens – again, as a platform against WASTEFUL SPENDING.

Lastly, but surely not the least important, it was stressed that we were in the process of dealing with the City of Cleveland regarding the usage permit. That at this point in time we have requested that Mayor Jackson waive the $500 fee as a way of showing support for this event against wasteful spending. We are expecting to hear back from the City of Cleveland today on if they will allow us to pay the $100 fee or if they will forcefully impose a $500 fee on private citizens wanting to use public property.

I also requested that Mr. Wanger please note that the City of Cleveland (Special Events Dept.) has been highly professional, very friendly and more than accommodating in helping us private citizens wade through this process.

In closing, while we are again thankful for Mr. Wanger’s article, we would be remiss in not making the above clarifications and allowing this event to be portrayed as an event against Cleveland.

Upcoming Cleveland Tea Party Starting to Make News

The Nationwide Tax Day Tea Party being held in downtown Cleveland on 4/15/09 from 4pm-6pm is starting to take shape and is beginning to get headlines.

One of the initial coordinators, Debby, was recently interviewed by the Star Beacon in Ashtabula...

To protest the stimulus, Dalton is helping organize and promote a Tax Day Tea Party from 4 to 6 p.m. April 15 at the Cleveland Public Square. The nationwide tea party day is sponsored by conservative grass-roots organizations in 150 cities and 49 states. The event will coincide with the federal income-tax filing deadline, according to www.taxdayteaparty.com

While Dalton said she wishes the stimulus plan could be recalled, she said she is calling on lawmakers to be responsible with every tax dime.

“The stimulus has already happened, so at this point, we believe the solution is not to tax any further,” Dalton said. “We are asking liberal and conservative lawmakers to go over the budget with a fine-toothed comb. We are saying ‘OK, you guys in office, you are being watched.’

“We are telling the (lawmakers), ‘If you don’t have this figured out, we are voting you out in two years,’” she said.

For more information on the Cleveland Tax Day Tea Party, call Dalton (440-415-5726) or Glen Urban (330-635-0141) or visit www.clevelandteaparty.webs.com.

I have been working closely with Debby & Glynn in organizing the Cleveland Tax Day Tea Party and the response we are getting back is exciting and energizing. The Tea Party concept is growing very quickly and time is nearing. It is estimated that there will over 170 major cities across the US having a Tea Party. Growing from this, it is estimated that there will be 1000 Tea Party's in some smaller locations.

Hats off to a recent Tea Party hosted in Cincy, where over 2000 attended, but I believe the Cleveland Tax Day Tea Party can exceed that crowd. A recent Tea Party in Cleveland had a good crowd - this time we want to fill it like a Browns game (when they were good).

If you are tickled pink with joy over the lack of accountability on the insane spending in D.C. and especially Ohio, dont click this LINK - it will bring you to a bi-partisan movement spreading like wildfire across our country. It will bring you to a place where Americans from all walks of life who are sick and tired of continually being abused by reckless governement spending and ridiculous taxes.

If you are fed up and want to be part of history being made across the US, please join us in downtown Cleveland on 4/15/09 at 4:00pm. Click here to sign up for email alerts, event information, press releases and register for your free ticket to the event.

Five Bad Ideas: Lessons from a Tea Party

Reposted from American Issues Project --
(I added the bullet points between the issues )

Five Bad Ideas: Lessons from a Tea Party
March 17th, 2009 by: Justin Higgins

Congressman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, spoke at the tea party rally in Columbus, Ohio, over the weekend to a crowd of about 200. He specifically outlined the problems with this current Congress and their destructive economic policies. He focused on five things that he believes are going to be the nails in the coffin of American supremacy in the global marketplace.

“To do any one of these things at any time is a bad idea. To attempt to do one of them during a recession is even worse. But to attempt to do all five during a recession is crazy, and yet that’s what your federal government is getting ready to do,” Jordan said, before outlining the following issues:

• Increase Taxes (“The Obama budget has the largest tax increase in history.”)

• Spending (“They’re going to continue to spend at unprecedented rates. The budget the administration has submitted to Congress will double the national debt in 8 years. We’re going to run the ten largest deficits over the next ten years.”)

• Further Unionize the Workforce (They’re going to attack the secret ballot with card check legislation.)

• Government-run Health Care (They want to implement a plan “where the government decides which type of health care you’re going to get and when you’re going to get it.”)

• Cap-and-Trade (“This is, in my view, the worst. Putting limits on the amount of energy we can have in our economy. Putting restrictions in a unilateral. Think about this: we’re competing in a world market. Our competitors in the international marketplace, China and India, they’re not going to have the restrictions placed on what kinds of energy they can use. That is going to be a tax increase on every single small business owner and every single family.”)

Jordan then went on to say:

We know what works. … We know that keeping taxes low works, we know that controlling spending, not mortgaging our kids and grandkids’ future works. We know that allowing workers the decision of whether they’re going to form a union or not is the right thing to do, not taking away one of their fundamental rights to a secret ballot. And we know that decisions made between you and your doctor and your family is the best way to do health care. And finally, we understand that using the natural resources we have in this country to meet our own energy needs is the right way to go, not limiting what we can put in the environment and what we can use in energy.

Jordan spoke about his colleague in Congress Mike Pence and conservatism in general, advising that–like the Indiana congressman–we need to send the message to our neighbors and our government with a smile on our face.

A follow-up rally in Columbus is tentatively planned for 6:00 p.m. on April 15, 2009.

Justin Higgins is a student at Ohio State University and the proprietor of the blog Shots on the House.

Come join us at the Cleveland Tax Day Tea Party at Public Square on April 15th at 4:00pm

Newt Gingrich to Co-Sponsor Tea Parties

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 17, 2009

Contact:Juliana Johnson

(312) 575-9500 (office)

(847) 691-9278 (cell)

julie@urqmedia

Newt Gingrich to Co-Sponsor Tea Parties

Gingrich Throws His Name in the Ring

While the Tax Day Tea Parties have been taking the nation by storm, Newt Gingrich has decided to step up to the plate. In a video released today, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vKr95e5aIE, Gingrich shows his support with his own message. The Tax Day Tea Parties hosted by the DontGo Movement, TCOT, and Smart Girl Politics will occur around the country on April 15. Presently Michelle Malkin, Dana Loesch, GOPUSA, and Newt Gingrich are sponsoring the movements.

Gingrich says, "Just as the Contract with America brought an end to Democrat control of the House of Representatives in 1994, I see the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition as the vehicle by which conservative activists can bring about the end of Democrat control of the House of Representatives in 2010."

National Communications Director Juliana Johnson states, "This is a major turn for the Tea Parties. Newt Gingrich becoming a part of this is confirming to all of us that the Tea Parties are indeed being heard around the country and that the movement will continue to grow and grow."

The Tax Day Tea Parties were a result of Rick Santelli's call to arms for Republicans with the first batch occurring on February 27th with thousands of activists showing up in over 20 states across the country. The April 15th Tea Parties are expected to attract tens of thousands of people in over 140 cities.

Please go to www.taxdayteaparties.com for more information on the Tea Parties.
Please go to www.dontgomovement.com for more information on the DontGo Movement

*** Click Here for info on Cleveland's Tax Day Tea Party

Study Finds Ohio Fed-Up with High Taxes and Wasteful State Spending

Now here's a no brainer - Ohioans are pissed off about their taxes, they think Strickland can't be trusted and they feel he is going to sqaunder our share of the stimulus money.

From Americans for Prosperity--

A new survey by the free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity finds that 60 percent of Ohio residents disapprove of the state legislature’s handling of budget and tax issues. In addition, 55 percent believe the state’s taxes are too high. When asked to identify the most important issue in state budgeting, 47 percent identified wasteful spending on programs that do not work.

“The governor’s so-called ‘No Tax’ budget actually includes an enormous number of new or increased fees. Ohioans aren’t stupid, they know that a hefty fee on everything from nursing home beds—more than doubled—to livestock renewal fees—increased 500 percent—is the same as a tax,” said Jack Boyle, state director of the Ohio chapter of Americans for Prosperity. “62 percent of our survey’s respondents said that they do not trust state officials to spend any new revenues wisely; this includes massive new fees proposed by Governor Strickland.”

The survey also finds that lower-income Ohioans oppose higher taxes, even if they are not forced to pay them. 55.6 percent of respondents earning under $30,000 rejected the idea of raising taxes on others.

Respondents also rejected the idea of taxes that are paid for by working poor and lower income groups, with a decisive 89 percent opposing the taxes.

The survey was conducted by Voter/Consumer Research, and is based on the responses of 601 registered voters across the state, conducted by telephone Jan. 22-27 of this year. The margin of error is +/- 4 percent.

The complete national and state-specific survey results can be viewed by clicking here.

Click Here for the PDF file results for OH.

Hold on, I believe the numbers in these polls will soon go up. No, not from the AIG bailout & bonuses that our taxes have already paid for, but it has just been predicted that Premier Obamao's national health care agenda is estimated to cost $1.5 TRILLION over the next 10 years or so.

And where exactly do you think the socialist, high-paid community activist turned Premier is going to get the money?

For those that are working - it will come out of your pocket. For those that want to work but are unemployed - you can be sure it will not be going towards getting you back to work.

Sounds like Tea Party time!

Cincy Tea Party - A smashing success!

It looks like the "Tea Party" movement is starting to gain momentum...

Cincinnati Enquirer --

“There is a movement going on in this country,” said former U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot. “You can see it here today.

The Sunday rally was one of dozens that have taken place across the country in recent weeks. The anti-bailout protests started last month when Rick Santelli of CNBC complained about Obama’s $75 billion mortgage-relief plan. Santelli accused the government of promoting bad behavior and sarcastically asked people at the Chicago Board of Trade whether they’d like to pay for their neighbor’s mortgage. His rant was picked up on the Drudge Report and posted on YouTube. More...

Are you also sick the the average American, while paying for all these bailouts - will be getting little or no benefit? Do you feel betrayed that, the person who campaigned against the 'wealthy' in this country is turning around and giving them more of your money without asking?

AIG, who after being bailed out twice with your money, is still giving Golden Parachute Bonuses to executives and the current administration is allowing it! It has also been established by top economists that the stimulus package will create little or no jobs and many doubt it will even work - but our government continues with the handouts.

It is time to stop this nonsense. It is time that Americans of all races, religions, political affiliation, straight, gay, liberal, conservative, etc... let our voices be heard. There is a Nationwide Tax Day Tea Party scheduled for Tax Day - 4/15/09 - click here to find a Tea Party in your state.

For residents of Ohio, click here to locate a Tea Party near you. We will also be holding a Tax Day Tea Party in Cleveland on this date - click here to register and find out more details about the event in Cleveland.

Another Cleveland Tea Party!

A growing number of Obama supporters have told me that what he is doing - is NOT the change they voted for. I continually hear, "I don't mind helping out someone down on their luck - but I do not want to support them forever."

Are you tired of the corporate welfare called bailouts being funded by your hard work? Are you happy that while you were bringing your lunch to work and saving pennies, your hard earned dollars will be bailing out people that thumbed their noses at your sacrifices and are served by butlers and driven by limo drivers while they drink their tea?

Are you happy that as you wait for your unemployment check, that will be gone as soon as you get it, our legislators are spending over $7 billion dollars for 9000 earmarks of unnecessary pet projects that will bring minimal if any jobs?

How does it make you feel that while you're out of work, starving, ready to have your utilities shut off and get thrown out of your house ~ our legislators would rather spend millions of your hard earned dollars on saving a field mouse and $1.7 million for pig odor research to name a few? The D.C. purveyors of pork need only smell themselves to find out where the stench is coming from!

Are you fed up with being fed up? If you are, here is your chance and now is the time to be part of something very special, fast growing movement sure to go down in history.

A little over a couple hundred years ago some special people in our country became very upset about taxation without representation and did something about it. Well, we are again facing a growing resentment, and again, some special people are doing something about it by having a Nationwide Tea Party in cities across America....

You got it Skippy - another Cleveland Tea Party and this one will be held on TAX DAY!

• Date: 4/15/09
• Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm
• Location: TBA
• Register: Cleveland Tax Day Tea Party

Other cities in OH - Canton, Cincy, & Dayton - will also be hosting events on the same day in conjunction with the Nationwide Tax Day Tea Party.

While we hope that all the event locations are a smashing success, I think the heart of Ohio - Cleveland - needs to blow the doors off this thing! We need to fill this event with the energy of the Dawg Pound and really show the others how to be heard.

You can show your support & voice your opinion at the Cleveland Tea Party website, where there are forums, up to date news releases many useful links, a blog page for your own posts and/or you can volunteer to help.