A Rhode Island Tea Party group and the state Republican Party both launched new websites this month. Ocean State Tea Party in Action, which broke from the Rhode Island Tea Party last year, called its new site a “one-of-a-kind source of information.” The Ocean State group’s site features a database of state representatives and senators, [...]
There’s a lot of wishful thinking in Washington. Beltway Democrats wish for more of our money to spend. Beltway Republicans wish no one would notice they’ve done nothing about the deficit. President Obama is wishing from the 18th green that the economy will magically improve enough to make him appear competent. And his progressive [...]
I’m parked outside the fieldstone and adobe mansion at 29005 North 82nd Street at sunrise, eating my low-fat yogurt from the free breakfast bar at the Quality Inn, and listening to the one-note whistle of the Phainopepla birds high in the Palo Verde trees. The first yellow blossoms of the year are bursting from the [...]
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 12–> In 2010, the tea party philosophy of restrained government enjoyed the cachet of being an alternative to a status quo where the country wallowed in widespread economic recession. Now, the new thing is the Occupy movement. But at a Tea Party South Dakota cracker barrel session for area legislators Saturday, Allen [...]
The tea party referendum has officially begun. Despite the success of tea party candidates all over the country in 2010, many top GOP Senate candidates have avoided the same kind of tough insider-outsider primary matchups that made the summer of 2010 so Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) faces a tough primary challenge. (J. Scott Applewhite – [...]
In his third Michigan stop to unseat chief rival Mitt Romney, former Sen. Rick Santorum told a packed rally of tea party supporters Friday they have an opportunity on Feb. 28 to turn the GOP presidential race “on its ear.” Greeted by an enthusiastic overflow crowd of more than 1,500, Santorum asked whether they want [...]
Mitt Romney’s fate in Michigan — his native state where he is facing an increasingly difficult race — will rest on voters like Maribeth Schmidt. The “tea party” activist and mother of three took part in a panel discussion with the former Massachusetts governor on Thursday morning, but remains undecided in the GOP presidential contest. [...]
IF YOU GO • What: Chattanooga Tea Party Liberty Forum featuring GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum • Where: Abba’s House, 5208 Hixson Pike • When: Feb. 25, from 1-4 p.m. • Cost: None Presidential candidate Rick Santorum will visit Chattanooga next week, just 10 days before Tennessee’s March 6 “Super Tuesday” primary. Santorum will headline [...]
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, once seemingly unbeatable in Indiana, has been scrambling to reintroduce himself to Hoosiers amid a barrage of attacks that he has lost touch — an argument his tea party challenger repeated Wednesday in front of the Indianapolis home the incumbent sold decades ago. The Republican who has spent [...]
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 15–> “If you don’t vote, you are voting for Obama,’’ Beinecke said. “My husband and I think Romney has the experience, but he has the problem of being a moderate.” Gingrich and Paul, Beinecke said, “are not electable; and Santorum doesn’t have the experience, but he is the most consistent on the [...]
Yesterday, a number of free-market economists and advocates voiced concern about the central feature of Rick Santorum’s economic policy. In short, Santorum picking winners (manufacturing) and losers (non-manufacturing) is no better than President Obama doing it — neither has the expertise to outwit the free market. Moreover, given that manufacturing has improved productivity (by slimming [...]
WASHINGTON Leaving a House of Representatives Republican caucus meeting one morning, Rep. Vicky Hartzler had to pause a moment to get her bearings. She was on her way to an Armed Services Committee hearing, but navigating the maze of corridors beneath the Capitol could still puzzle her./pp Hartzler’s political compass, however, always stays on course. [...]
Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina opened CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) with an analogy. He compared Republicans and Democrats not to allies with differences fighting together for a common cause (as President Obama did in his State of the Union address); instead, he compared Republicans and Democrats to the Giants and the Patriots, a [...]
Rick Santorum | Credit: Dave Davidson – Prezography.comTwo polls released on Monday find that Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has built a lead over Mitt Romney in Michigan — where George Romney, the father of the GOP presidential candidate, served as governor during most of the 1960s. Santorum has been rising in state and national [...]
Print E-mail By Daniel Malloy The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Long before the tea party movement became an American political phenomenon, Newt Gingrich chucked empty produce crates into the Chattahoochee River in Roswell as part of a tax day re-enactment of the Boston Tea Party. Evan Vucci AP Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich touts his “long tradition [...]
Tea Party Patritots co-founder Mark Meckler warned the president’s move to require insurance companies to eliminate co-pays on contraception would “invigorate the Tea Party” and predicted higher turnout by conservative activists in 2012 than their watershed 2010 showing during an interview Monday on Fox News. “One of the fundamental tenants of the Tea Party is [...]
At a moment when the tea party movement has taken a back seat in the race for the GOP presidential nomination, Sarah Palin went to Washington this weekend to remind Republicans that she still represents an insurgent force that the Republican establishment ignores at its peril. Though she remains a tea party favorite, it is [...]
At a moment when the tea party movement has taken a back seat in the race for the GOP presidential nomination, Sarah Palin went to Washington this weekend to remind Republicans that she still represents an insurgent force that the Republican establishment ignores at its peril. Though she remains a tea party favorite, it is [...]
February 11, 2012 Updated Feb 11, 2012 at 6:47 PM PST The Rail Authority says California needs high speed rail. Promising thousands of jobs and a boost to the economy. Steve Brandau, a coordinator for the Central Valley Tea Party doesn’t buy it. “The project as it is, is three times the price and they [...]
Published Sunday, February 12, 2012 in Local By Winston Skinner The Newnan Times-Herald People may think of the Tea Party as being anti-tax, but the Senoia Tea Party Patriots have endorsed Coweta’s extension of the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax. Joe Cannin, coordinator for the Senoia group, explained the group’s position. Cannin polled STPP [...]
Verify the Recall, an effort backed by Tea Party groups to ensure the validity of petition signatures in Wisconsin’s recall elections, is now 13,000 volunteers strong and organizers say one signature is being checked every 2.7 seconds. Ross Brown, founder of We The People of the Republic, said Verify the Recall has gathered enough evidence [...]
Some top conservative pundits at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference taking place in Washington, D.C. this week, say they are uninspired by frontrunner Mitt Romney and the rest of the current crop of presidential candidates, and are somewhat begrudgingly accepting the reality that the nominee – whether it turns out to be Romney or [...]
Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog WASHINGTON, D.C. — Herman Cain’s famous 9-9-9 tax proposal has inspired international admiration, and two Japanese activists hope to bring their own version of the Atlanta businessman’s plan to their country. During a private meeting Thursday with Tokyo Tea Party leader Yuya Watase and Jikido “Jay” Aeba of [...]
BISMARCK, N.D. — Three founding members of North Dakota’s Tea Party Caucus have resigned because they’re running for office or working on political campaigns this fall. Former North Dakota Republican chairman Gary Emineth says he’ll be managing Republican Kevin Cramer’s primary campaign for the U.S. House this June. Former North Dakota Republican chairman Gary Emineth [...]
The Republican primary races are heating up, and as the nomination draws nearer, candidates are fueling up to gain the most votes. While Mitt Romney seems to be in the lead, Rick Santorum recently swept through three key states (Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado), making the race too close to call. One group, however, has remained [...]
In case you were wondering how high the stakes are for the national right in the battle over Scott Walker’s recall, consider this: The Americans for Prosperity Foundation, a branch of the conservative group founded by the Koch brothers, is sinking at least $700,000 into ads in Wisconsin defending Walker’s record. A source who tracks [...]
Politics has a cruel sense of humor. In the blink of an eye, heroes can become villains. Pariahs can become prophets. And populist movements can become ghosts of their former selves, shriveling from within as powerful interest groups mold them for their own purposes. The Tea Party is a prime example of this gradual decay. [...]
MADISON — Leaders of two tea party groups said a decision Tuesday by Wisconsin’s elections board not to accept third-party evidence of fraud in recall petitions targeting Republican Gov. Scott Walker has put the integrity of the election in jeopardy. The attorney for recall organizers called the tea party request ridiculous. If the groups find [...]
The Southern Colorado Tea Party, a Pueblo group, does not endorse presidential candidates, but it held regular straw polls to gauge the preferences of its members, and candidates rose and fell just like they did nationally. Herman Cain did well until his campaign collapsed, said Sheldon Bloedorn, the groups chairman.
“We haven’t gone away,” insisted Amy Kremer, chairwoman of the national Tea Party Express. But, in the same breath, she acknowledged lower expectations and a shift in focus to Senate races over the White House campaign. She also pleaded for patience, saying: “Anybody that thinks we are going to change things in one cycle or [...]
Tea Party Nation chief Judson Phillips, who endorsed Newt Gingrich last fall, now pens an open letter to the former House speaker calling his campaign a disaster and begging Gingrich to make changes that could allow him to compete against Mitt Romney: Your campaign is sinking faster than an Italian Cruise ship. I don’t know [...]
“Not Romney” is the most popular candidate among his fellow activists, Littleton says, though no one can agree who “Not Romney” is. Without an agreement on that score, the real Romney has coasted to easy victories in New Hampshire, Florida, and Nevada, even winning a clean 50 percent of the Tea Party vote in Nevada [...]
Solar energy companies owned by a tea party Republican running for an open U.S. Senate seat in Wisconsin who is strongly opposed to the 2009 federal stimulus package have received $500,000 in grants under the program. Skip to next paragraph Post oil: Glimpses of life after fossil fuel Solar energy loan not political, Chu says Is there [...]
Associated Press/File While Tea Party supporters have been cool to Mitt Romney, activists say Republicans will unite behind him eventually. RENO, Nev. – Tea Party activists, long dismissive of Mitt Romney, insist that most of the movement’s legions will back him if he continues to surge toward nomination, with a few already urging Republicans of [...]
Romney’s decisive victory Tuesday in the Florida primary has increased his chances of locking up the GOP nomination for president. If he does, we will read countless media obituaries for the tea party, explaining how the movement that won so much in 2010 fell short in 2012 and is left saddled with an elite, middle-of-the-road [...]
There’s been a flood of criticism directed toward Gov. Martin O’Malley’s proposal to raise sales and gas taxes. But, in reality, it is the GOP and the tea party that have caused these increases, as well as the increases we have seen (or will see) at toll booths, the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration, and elsewhere. [...]
WORCESTER Politics makes strange sidewalk fellows. Both Occupy Worcester and the Worcester Tea Party will participate in a demonstration against the National Defense Authorization Act from 3 to 7 p.m. today in front of the Harold D. Donohue Federal Building, 595 Main St. Both groups are urging members to attend the event, which is part [...]
Just as last time, influential conservative leaders are all over the map. Chuck Muth, a prominent operative, is working for a group that supports former House speaker Newt Gingrich. An army of local tea party activists is supporting Rep. Ron Paul (Tex.). And Angle has endorsed Rick Santorum, former Senator from Pennsylvania. As a result, [...]
The Boston Globe scrambled yesterday to scrap a blog post after former GOP presidential wannabe Michele Bachmann called it “completely false” and demanded a retraction. The post, on Boston.com, strongly suggested that the Minnesota congresswoman planned to endorse former Bay State Gov. Mitt Romney during a visit to her state yesterday after he clinched Tuesday’s [...]
Roberto Gonzalez/Getty Images Sarah Palin no longer commands the kind of media attention she once did. In October, Sarah Palin announced that she would not run for president in 2012, ending the media frenzy around her potential candidacy even as she vowed to remain politically active and influential. “I will continue driving the discussion for [...]
Last year, Sen. Dick Lugar was the tea party’s top target — a 35-year veteran who lives in Washington, strays from conservative orthodoxy and even criticized the right-wing movement in the wake of the 2010 elections. But last week, Lugar was the tea party’s dining companion. Continue Reading For more than two hours at a [...]
ORLANDO What happened to the Tea Party? In Mitt Romney’s big victory in the Florida Republican presidential primary Tuesday, the establishment favorite won more votes than conservative darlings Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum combined. Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich speaks after losing the Florida Republican presidential primary Tuesday, Jan. 31. (AP photo) The difference between [...]
(CBS News) In Florida, the Tea Party remains a powerful force. Monday’s Quinnipiac University poll says 34 percent of Republican voters support it. Tea partiers have helped elect a number of candidates in Florida, but CBS News correspondent Chip Reid found there is frustration in their ranks. William Benedict, 69, a retired cab driver, co-founded [...]
In the South Carolina primary, Gingrich, who represented Georgia for 20 years in Congress, piled up his biggest margins in the counties along the South Carolina–Georgia border. He needs to pile up roughly the same margins in north Florida, near its border with Georgia. Gingrich may not win these counties with the same decisive margins [...]
TAMPA – With days remaining before Tuesday’s Republican presidential primary election in Florida, local tea party organizer Karen Jaroch still isn’t sure which candidate will get her vote. “I would say the vast majority of the tea party is not rallying around one particular candidate,” said Jaroch, organizer and director of Tampa 912 Project, a [...]
TAMPA – With days remaining before Tuesday’s Republican presidential primary election in Florida, local tea party organizer Karen Jaroch still isn’t sure which candidate will get her vote. “I would say the vast majority of the tea party is not rallying around one particular candidate,” said Jaroch, organizer and director of Tampa 912 Project, a [...]
Whither the Florida tea party vote? That is the question. And we may not know the answer until Tuesday’s Sunshine State primary. Former senator Rick Santorum (Pa.), former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and former House speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.). (David Goldman/Associated Press)Three of the top GOP presidential contenders — former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, former [...]
Whither the Florida tea party vote? That is the question. And we may not know the answer until Tuesday’s Sunshine State primary. Former senator Rick Santorum (Pa.), former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and former House speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.). (David Goldman/Associated Press)Three of the top GOP presidential contenders — former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, former [...]
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin waves during a Tea Party Express rally Sept. 5, 2011, in Manchester, N.H. (Credit: Getty Images) Sarah Palin hasn’t jumped into the GOP race, but in her latest Facebook post the former running mate of John McCain and Tea Party icon stated that Newt Gingrich is being kneecapped by the [...]
Several local tea party members said GOP candidate Rick Santorum would be the candidate most likely to draw their votes in the Florida Republic Primary, but poor performances in New Hampshire and South Carolina have left them fearful of wasting their vote. “(Santorum) stands for closest to what I stand for — being a real [...]