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Marisa Schultz writes in the Detroit News about a recent effort to combine the punch of Tea Party votes in Michigan for the upcoming effort to elect a conservative to the office of U.S. Senate.  From the beginning of the grassroots Tea Party movement, the leaders and members knew what they wanted in a candidate, any candidate, for office:

(A) candidate who stands for a limited federal government, free-market solutions, individual freedoms and abiding by the Constitution as written by the Founding Fathers.

There is some disagreement about how that will be accomplished. Alliance? Network? Unite? Take over the local GOP?   In the last gubernatorial race, 4 of the Republican candidates each had a base of supporters among Tea Partiers.  Many feel the eventual winner was not a true conservative.  How to maximize the voice and votes of conservatives will be an ongoing discussion among those who have organized themselves into Tea Parties.

Read the entire article by clicking on the Detroit News image, or a PDF here – Tea Parties Unite for Senate Race, Detroit News.

Our own Jan D. is quoted further down in the piece:

The idea also doesn’t sit well with Jan DeBeauclair, chairwoman of the Romeo Area Tea Party, saying the members shouldn’t be told how to vote.

“Our mission statement says we will not endorse,” said DeBeauclair, whose group had two representatives at Saturday’s meeting. “We will do everything we can to educate people so they know what is going on, so they have the chance to listen to the candidates and they make up their own mind.”

Well, what do you TEA Partiers think?  What is the best strategy to elect a  true conservative in the primary race? Do straw poll results affect your decision?  Let us know in the comment section below.

Kathleen Gray at the Detroit Free Press reports on the court case concerning former Oakland County Democratic Party chairman Mike McGuinness :

McGuinness, 27, was facing a trial this week on perjury and forgery charges linked to putting unwitting people on the ballot as candidates of the tea party.

McGuinness is scheduled to be sentenced at 1 p.m. on Dec. 7.

McGuinness’ partner-in-mischief, Jason Bauer, “faces a Dec. 8 trial on the same charges” according to Gray.

A secretive group attempting to get  fake “Tea Party” candidates on the ballot for 2010 elections was suspect from the start.  Unknown by any genuinely organized Tea Party groups that were organized and holding meetings,  paid operatives for the Fake Tea Party collected signatures in the summer months of 2010.  Many authentic Tea Party groups published press releases stating their groups opposition to creating an additional political party and would not support any candidates from this Fake Tea Party.

Visit our Fake Tea Party Run-Down for all the shady dealings.

RATP protester

Click the image below to view ITPP’s  ”Watching Michigan” website, which includes a link to their Tea Party Legislative Scorecard for Michigan- a tool which “differentiate(s) among legislators on core tea party issues.”

Tea Party issues

"She seemed a little stiff"

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Be sure to check their other “Watching” sites:

• Watching Debbie Stabenow
• Watching Congress

Today, President Obama

addressed the United Nations Assembly.

In President Obama’s speech, he praised the many regime changes that occurred over the past year, citing how change does not necessarily need to come by violence.  Specifically, the portion of text from his speech to the U.N. Assembly was…

“So this has been a remarkable year. The Qaddafi regime is over. Gbagbo, Ben Ali, Mubarak are no longer in power. Osama bin Laden is gone, and the idea that change could only come through violence has been buried with him. Something is happening in our world. The way things have been is not the way that they will be. The humiliating grip of corruption and tyranny is being pried open. Dictators are on notice.”

Here again, is the same text,

parsed with snippets of news reports of the day.

“So this has been a remarkable year. (The unemployment rate in the United States was last reported at 9.1)

The Qaddafi regime is over.(Libyan rebels on Monday said they had sent more fighters and weaponry to Tripoli…)

Gbagbo, (Toure says no U.N. troops were involved in Mr. Gbagbo’s capture which he says was carried out by fighters…)

Ben Ali, (The departure came as a dramatic climax to weeks of violent protests against Ben Ali’s rule in the north African nation…)

Mubarak (It was a moment they had anticipated throughout long days of relentless demonstrations — sometimes violent — that demanded Mubarak’s departure….)

are no longer in power (Rockets pound ghost city as allies say Gaddafi must go…)

Osama bin Laden is gone, (The president called the killing of bin Laden the “most significant achievement to date”…)

and the idea that change could only come through violence has been buried with him.

Something is happening in our world. (The crowd I saw and spoke with were well informed, and deeply concerned Americans about the direction their country was headed. They were polite, courteous and above all–patriotic.)

The way things have been is not the way that they will be. (“We’ve come to take our government back,” Paul declared to a cheering throng.)

The humiliating grip of corruption and tyranny is being pried open. (A federal jury found former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich guilty of 17 of the 20 counts…)

Dictators are on notice. (President Barack Obama is rapidly advancing an executive dictatorship)

The only question that remains is,

“Who will write the history”?

Romeo Area Tea Party will be hosting a

Flag Day Celebration

Tuesday, June 14th

at the Four Corners, Downtown Romeo

Intersection of Van Dyke and 32 Mile Road( AKA St. Clair St) 

Animated flag images by 3DFlags.com

Activities also planned in Village Park and Gazebo

Check back for more details

Over the weekend I was appalled to hear so many voices in our nation’s media point the finger of blame at some amorphous, uncivil, inclined to violence group of people that, through their actions and words, especially their words, created the climate of violence, the environment of fear and hate, that finally came to a head in the murderous rampage in Tucson Arizona.

Let’s be clear, though the accusers in the mainstream media did not have the courage to be clear in many cases, they meant us. Pure and simple, without any supporting evidence, we were blamed for the murders of several fellow human beings, including a nine year old girl, a federal judge appointed by President George H. W. Bush, and several others. Among the wounded is a Democratic Congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona’s 10th district. Our hearts go out to all of the slain and wounded, and their families. All of us feel horrible about what happened, but I find my sadness slightly tinged by frustration because, once again, I have to defend myself to a media on an eternal quest to find ‘right wing violence’.

The new fascination of the media seems to be civility. OK, let’s take them at their word and try a little civility. Strangely though, the most important aspect of civility is completely lost on the professional thinkers: Trust is never discussed. Instead they fasten on the consequences of a lack of trust, like harsh words and partisanship. But as most adults know, civility starts with trust. When we trust that our fellow man shares our values then we can disagree without hating or accusing or finger pointing.

After the professionals posit civility as the crux of the matter, their next move is the magic trick in which civil behavior disappears and in its place, ta-da, the accusation, without the slightest whiff of evidence, that the tea party is to blame because somehow we have created a climate of hate where vitriol, (how many times have you heard this word the last 72 hours?), spews  uncontrollably. Evidently, this sleight of hand is their contribution to civility.

The fellow they arrested for the crime by the way is a lunatic, through and through. This is now so obvious that the movement for born again civility is already starting to ebb. In its place is the movement for gun control. It’s deja vu all over again.

Here’s a couple of other ideas that we should start thinking about. The most closely similar situation to the Tucson murders is the Virginia Tech shooting a few years ago. In both situations we have a college student acting out in a way that adults ought to understand is very dangerous. The adults fail to or cannot take appropriate action. The problem progresses and ultimately ends when the psychosis explodes into violence. In both cases there were so many obvious signs that were not followed, not even a little bit. The deep professional thinkers never stop and ask what we need to do to manage these situations better. They have too many important political points to make, too many new rules and regulations to push on the non-offenders, to worry about the practical measures we can and should take to protect innocent people from madness and its manifestations.

It’s obvious to anyone who has spent one day in our group that the Tea Party understands exactly what we must do to move the country in the direction we want: Understand the issues and vote! We were successful in November and will be successful again in the next election. There’s no need for violence when you have the ballot box.