While Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) hails bipartisanship, 13 Republicans betrayed their party outright today.
Hot Air's headline:
Jobs bill passes Senate — with 13 Republican votes
Why aren't Republicans waking up?
The slope is more than slippery now. This is a luge course with no end.
Michelle Malkin called it a "pay-off" and business as usual.
Mediaite reported on Facebook, Blogosphere Take On “Traitor” Scott Brown
Inexplicably, Scott Brown was defended by The Heritage Foundation (CNN).
"I think this shows independence," said Brian Darling, director of Senate relations for the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation. "A $15 billion jobs bill is an important vote, but it's not going to be one of the more important votes that they are going to have this year."
They don't get it.
Glenn Beck rationalized that maybe America's wish fulfillment for Scott Brown had left them projecting something he had never been -- and holding onto hope by lying to themselves.
MSNBC further reported on the furor among tea party conservatives and right wing bloggers.
Republicans can blink or be brave now.
There are no words to describe the disappointment and resolve of tea party activists who learned yesterday that Scott Brown had betrayed their movement.
I will be revising this column throughout the day, since the shockwave of what transpired yesterday in Washington, D.C. will ripple across the country and the Internet and the tea parties and well-meaning Republican, conservative and independent leaders nationwide.
For those on the grass-roots level, this is a dark day.
There are an estimated 16 million tea party activists.
That's a lot of people for Scott Brown to disregard.
There are several million more volunteers from all political and non-political corners of the country.
For those who worked so hard to elect Scott, it's a betrayal.
How many made calls for Scott Brown?
For those who were so happy the night he won, no poll can capture how they might feel today.
It's impossible to calculate the damage to the Republican Party.
It's too late to safeguard all candidates from the backlash.
Mad as hell and not going to take it anymore?
The ensuing protests will consume any lawmakers who don't heed the participatory movement growing nationwide.
It isn't reactionary, as that actor in Sacramento copped out. It's built on common sense, a page from Thomas Paine rather than Robespierre.
If we didn't have anarchy before, the United States will have something close to anarchy now. No ... not "lock and load" -- but something along the lines of a fierce determination to vote ALL the bums out come November 2nd.
Yes ... please vote all the bums out.
ALL ... both major parties ... all incumbents. Vote them all out.
It hurts more than anything else. There are no more icons or heroes on pedestals anymore in America (at least not anyone running for elected office). The trust and comfort level for Americans is damaged irreparably by Scott Brown choosing to be political expedient. It's "perfectly normal" for D.C. but not outside the Beltway. It's especially not normal for those new to the process.
Tea party activists don't want to look at an incumbent right now.
They probably don't want to look at any candidate either.
If there was any doubt that the tea party movement would avoid endorsing candidates this November, the sellouts in Congress who walked all over their principles yesterday have made it MUCH worse for their contemporaries. Whether you're running for the U.S. Senate or the House of Representatives, don't expect much help right away.
The wounds may heal. I personally doubt it. As a political consultant, I will advise candidates to step lightly. As a partisan, I expect to hear their frustration and distrust. If you're a candidate, be ready to be chased out of rooms.
How dramatic a reversal of fortune could this be for the Republican Party?
With more budget "reconciliation" right around the corner and coming right at them, Republicans better not blink.
It's probably too late already.
See you in November.
Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, George Voinovich of Ohio and Christopher "Kit" Bond of Missouri ... might have been expected to sell out to the Democrats.
Scott Brown has sold out a movement.
The Washington Post reported that Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky wasn't particularly perturbed about Brown's vote, saying his election last month has "made a huge, positive difference for us and for the whole legislative agenda."
"We don't expect our members to be in lockstep on every single issue," McConnell added.
That's what's wrong with the Republican Party.
What legislative agenda?
For an actor who was swept into office during a populist election, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger sounded like an elitist discounting the tea party movement.
ABC News blog, The Note, had video of Governor Arnold trying to terminate the tea.
"They're the party of no, and at the same time, I think that there are a lot of people that are disenchanted and dissatisfied and they're angry and this is why you have the Tea Party and all of those things. The Tea Party is not going to go anywhere. I think the Tea Party is all about just an expression of anger and dissatisfaction ... "
The party of "no" ...
What a copout.
Libertarian movements have their contrarian moments (though nowhere near as counter-productive as partisan Democrats).
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The Firedoglake blog noted some conservative contradictions at CPAC -- "Ron Paul at CPAC Exposes the Incoherence of the Modern Republican Party"
The marrying of anti-war protestors with hawks irked one blogger -- and Ron Paul winning the straw poll.
"So Ann Coulter agrees with everything Ron Paul says, except for that trillion or so a year she wants to keep spending to maintain a US Empire. Or, put another way — Coulter and the neoconservatives that have taken over the Republican Party want Ron Paul’s pre-WWI, pre-Fed, pre-Social Security, pre-IRS federal government — to go with LBJ’s Great Society military."
Complicated.
No economic recession or depression justifies suicide or violence.
My first thoughts on the suicide bomber, who apparently had a bone to pick with the I.R.S., range from disgust to complete revulsion that any human being would murder people over an inability to pay a tax bill.
We still have a responsibility to pay taxes.
What Joseph Stack did in Austin was a criminal act.
It was not domestic terrorism, as some in the news media or Democratic Party want to rationalize.
The tea party and conservative movement didn't stay up all night plotting a suicidal and murderous plane crash. We do not advocate violence. We do not advocate murder. We are not terrorist cells. We do not advocate overthrowing the United States government (though many of us hold the present leadership of Congress in complete disdain).
Democrats want to capitalize on one individual's emotionally unstable act.
... At least one lawmaker, U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, disagreed and compared the incident to the 1995 bombing that killed 168 people in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
"Like the larger-scale tragedy in Oklahoma City, this was a cowardly act of domestic terrorism," Doggett said in a statement. "Stack's apparent website message reflects the steadily increasing flow of 'the government is out to get me' paranoia."
See you in November, Mr. Doggett. I suspect the voters will send you a message.
It doesn't help the country to fan the reactionary flames of paranoia by unfairly labeling well-intended citizens opposing bad public fiscal policy as domestic terrorists. On the other hand, those using the tea party movement as a copout for a prior lack of civic involvement need to show some humility.
Hailing a suicide bomber as a hero is stupid. It's irresponsible. Stack was unstable and morally bankrupt.
"This guy was making a sacrifice to others who were having problems with the IRS," Alvarez told Syracuse's Post-Standard newspaper. "We at least owed it to him to make note of his thoughts."
Nonsense. Facebook was correct in taking down the page. We don't need people yelling FOR fire in crowded theaters.
Everyone has to calm down.
That the taxes are unjust, that they may justify significant civil unrest and that some form of protest is our right as U.S. citizens -- doesn't preclude the fact that we still have a civic responsibility to pay taxes.
And if you don't like it, get off your asses and get involved with elections to vote the bums out of office.
But don't scapegoat your personal problems or bad economics on everyone else. Don't blame the government if you have never voted, if you have never volunteered to help a candidate, if you have never at least acknowledged the value of our democracy.
Every two or four or six years, our elected officials -- the lawmakers responsible for passing these public budgets -- come up for re-election.
Vote them out if you don't like the cost of government.
Geesh. It's not worth flying a plane into a building. It's not worth violent protest. It's not worth an anarchy that still refuses to accept that part of human existence is the body politic and the process to choose those to represent us. Go door to door and collect signatures on petitions to get the candidates of your choice on the ballot. Man the phones to pull out the vote. Vote. Change takes work, sweat, time -- and, yes, you might lose a few times.
Voting is not mandatory but it is a patriotic obligation. If more people voted, we would not have most of the problems the tea party activists are screaming about. I'm happily part of the tea party movement, particularly on the local level with Rethinking Westchester Government and with many good government initiatives that preceded the tea parties. I am also proudly part of New York's Conservative Party, an independent movement that started in 1962 to go after the liberal spend and tax policies of then New York State Governor Nelson Rockefeller.
By the time I first registered to vote in 1980, the principles of the New York State Conservative Party were the mainstream policies of the Republican National Committee and soon-to-be President Ronald Reagan.
No one had to fly a plane into a building. No one had to reject political parties. Consensus brought conservative (and libertarian) policies to the forefront.
However, no one plotted to frame Reagan's supporters as enemies of the state. Admittedly, there was a polarizing divide -- particularly in New York -- between those who loved Reagan and liberals who viewed the late President of the United States as the devil incarnate.
Many of Reagan's critics had a holiday while flawed economic policies hid worse problems. Many of the liberals' critics weren't as active politically when the economy was humming. This vacation from campaigns and elections, partly an aversion to a prior generation's machine politics and Watergate, allowed a lot of corrupt human beings to take control of government on all levels.
We were asleep at the wheel (I wasn't).
Now the issues of the day are picking our pockets. Now the economy is on everyone's mind. Now the unrest is more valid than it may have been 42 years ago when Vietnam and racial divides had measurable rioting on the streets.
Fingerpointing is easy. Changing our economic woes will take some work. As for the public sector, start with taking advantage of those planned revolutions called elections.
Forget about flying planes into buildings or blowing up something. Forget about trying to "spin" the tea party as something evil. We are not the enemy of the people. Those elected officials who refuse to acknowledge debt-ridden fiscal policies as destructive are the true enemies of the United States. But the tea party better start working with political parties to reform our system from within. Just anarchy won't do it.
Ode to political machines ...
The reality check is that two generations of Americans are making up for lost time when they should have been more civically engaged to keep their tax bills down. Now they are playing catch up, desperately (and rightfully), but a little humility might help too.
Vote the bums out, at least.
Then perhaps the United States can start turning the page and clean up the debit column of our nation's financial statement.
It's really that simple.
Democrats must be desperate.
Bill Clinton and James Carville running campaigns against Tea Party leaders? Breitbart's Big Government detailed the blackmail scheme.
"They plan to identify 7-8 national figures active in the tea party movement and engage in deep opposition research on them. If possible, they will identify one or two they can perhaps ‘turn’, either with money or threats, to create a mole in the movement. The others will be subjected to a full-on smear campaign."
Michelle Malkin is sick of it all being the tea party's fault.
This nutball had deadly grudges that transcended partisan lines. But within minutes of the story breaking, a furious, left-wing blogger at the popular Daily Kos website – where countless Democrat leaders have guest-posted – fumed: “Teabagger terrorist attack on IRS building.”
They don't get it. They just don't get it.
As for Boss Clinton, he may like being back in the hardball game -- but shouldn't be given the kid gloves treatment as a former President anymore.
Vox populi.
The New York Times calls it "a movement in ferment" (the attached slide show was a fair representation of things).
I was there on 9/12/2009 as the crowds overflowed the National Mall. It was distinctly non-partisan, with an overwhelming number of senior citizens and young families. Though some of the radical fringes were there, they comprised a small percentage of the crowd.
These aren't politicians.
Admittedly, I'm a politician. I'm a local party chairman of the Eastchester Town Conservative Committee, a member of the Westchester County Conservative Committee, an active supporter of the New York State Conservative Party and steady part of many Republican campaigns through Westchester County and the Hudson Valley.
I've actually run for office, twice. I was the novice, under-funded and distinctly non-political during the process. I found myself at local Town Hall meetings for the town board and the rest just followed. It works that way sometimes in democracy. Everyone has a different story how he or she gets involved.
Each of these tea party enthusiasts have a different story and some may or may not find their way into "politics" -- but they're already there.
Politics is not always a dirty word.
I prefer to say that I am "civically engaged" (a safe way to soften explaining that I'm both a political chairman and political consultant).
I have worked as a reporter and that's how this affection for the body politic really started. You cover enough elections and a part of you eventually starts following it like a sporting event, though no journalist wants to admit anyone takes sides (even though publishers and producers have been taking sides for two generations).
Elections have become a blood sport, a verbal boxing match and the people are tired of it all just being a game of subtraction. They want to see new ideas, new candidates and new kinds of candidates. This is the year of the anti-politicians, the everyman in elections and a people's movement.
This grounded populism is not new. Blame Frank Capra. Many of us have a weakness for old movies that unite our visions. Deep down inside, we are Mr. Smith Went To Washington. We are Howard Beal in Network. We are Al Pacino in And Justice For All. We are searching for that Main Street, a place that is safe and boring. All those Tea Party patriots want peace too, believe me. But taxation without benefit or representation is not peace. It's fiscal war.
This time the good guys are going to win. The whole country benefits from what unfolds now. We're all finding a way to make a noise; blogging, letters to the newspapers, rallies ... We're finding our voice.
What's happening to America right now is a good thing. I'm not sure many politicians "get it" but they will, especially as party leaders find their committees over-run by well-intended activists whose zeal for the process already rivals what happens on any campaign trail. The smart chairs are empowering the tea parties. They should let them run the show. Just let go and let human nature take its course.
Wine must wait.
So let it all ferment, though don't let it all sit idly either. Am I a member of the Tea Party movement? My friends in the press, fellow bloggers and fellow partisans remind me that I was talking about things like a tax revolt across New York State five years ago (actually, one of my mentors and close friend, former Congressman Joe DioGuardi was talking about a national revolt 25 years ago).
Larry Kudlow this past week reminded the New York Young Republicans that the late Jack Kemp was discussing tea party ideas before Reagan was in the White House (by the way, go to Draft Larry Kudlow and tell him to run for the U.S. Senate aganst Charles Schumer).
The tea party movement in our time probably started with Proposition 13 in California in the mid-1970s. It stalled ironically during the budget gridlock of 1982 -- in the middle of the Reagan revolution -- when spending wasn't held down properly. Adjustments to the real estate and oil investments taxes in 1986 removed deductions that drifted Reagan's movement into a recession. By 1988, when George H.W. Bush said "no new taxes" at the Republican National Convention, the deficit dye was already cast. The budget deal of 1990 to raised taxes to meet runaway spending made it a lonely time for Republicans until Newt Gingrich showed up in 1994 to reclaim Congress for the first time in over four decades.
The Contract With America, 14 years after Reagan first took office, renewed hope -- but it only took Speaker Gingrich two years to go from citizen to demagogue. Also, Gingrich blinked when it was time for a government shutdown. It's been written that the Oklahoma bombing left Gingrich fearing that his revolution had spun out of his control. The problem was that he had played Robespierre rather than Thomas Paine. This is what happens when a citizen's movement is turned into a cult of personality, so Gingrich failed as quickly as he succeeded.
And he never did get it, did he?
He didn't get it last year when he showed up in upstate New York's 23rd Congressional race to again play demagogue.
Those who know why Dick Armey walked away from Congress understand why it is so fitting that he started FreedomWorks with the late Jack Kemp.
This is all so long overdue.
Since initiative and referenda first hit the California coast to lobbying scandals ruined Republican control of Congress, the country had trusted their elected officials to get the job down.
Now it's the people's turn.
What matters now is what continues to happen on the local level, as The Journal News observed last week.
However, I don't agree with Gannett that most Tea Party activists don't show up at local school or town board meetings. They are the people who usually have been showing up at local village, town and city hall meetings. Yes ... many are those gadflies people like to joke about, or the lone citizen who shows up at the podium to ask questions every week. These people care. They're good neighbors. They're great citizens.
As they still say at WVOX in New Rochelle, New York (where such populism is standard fare), Vox Populi ...
... Voice of the people.
"It's not what we oppose," explained Rockland County Tea Party organizer Anthony Mele. "It's what we are for."
Despite the Palisades Center not allowing the Rally for America to gather at the Nanuet mall, Rockland County was host to a well received "Blueprint for Change" on President's Day.
A few hundred well-intetended citizens held what organizers call a civic conference at the Comfort Inn in Nanuet.
Mele and others, including former Congressman Joe DioGuardi, explained that people are worried about over-taxing, over-spending and government over-reaching into their lives.
Moderated by a group called Conserveality, the day included panel discussions on grass-roots planning, galvanizing the voters, how to become more politically active in the coming elections with campaigns -- and joining political parties as committee members/district leaders.
Above is the welcome video that started the conference and below are some clips from the entire conference.
The conference had only one flashpoint. Some discussion of social conservative issues in a news story one week prior to the conference prompted this letter to the editor by Joseph DiToma of Pearl River in the local Gannett newspaper disagreeing with a Rockland lawmaker.
The comments of Rockland County Legislator Frank Sparaco that "many are concerned about gay marriage and abortion" is precisely the kind of comment that is meant to cause division in an otherwise noble cause ...
... Gay marriage, abortion, etc., these are not our concern. Our concern is to take back our government, abolish the 16th and 17th amendments and reinstate the Constitution as our basis of law. We cannot allow ourselves to be distracted from our quest ...
Tea party groups appear divided on more than just the social issues, including territorial fights and resistance to endorsing any candidate (or getting involved in any political party). However, today's conference in Rockland had no revealed controversies or disagreements. Much like the Founding Fathers they tend to emulate, this is not a one size fits all movement -- nor are these true patriots afraid of dissent.
Since when is populism a bad thing?
In recent days, news outlets have been deconstructing Sarah Palin as some freak of backward Americanism. It's as if an entire portion of the United States has been laid out as lacking intelligence or order.
The mainstream media and the autocratic political establishments don't want the masses in control of a movement influencing millions of people.
What's at stake here is centralized control of "the message" -- and this rebellion against elitist control is where the conservatives find common ground with libertarians.
Hotline called Palin's pitch "beer-track populism" -- warning of a Republican rift.
"Palin's elevation of the instinctive wisdom of heartland Americans over the rarefied knowledge of egghead elites, in her speech at the Tea Party convention last weekend, echoed conservative arguments against Democrats dating back to Adlai Stevenson and the 1950s. But it's easy to imagine Palin trying to consolidate beer-track Republicans by directing the same attacks against Romney--a wealthy and modulated former management consultant who radiates expertise from his crisply starched shirts to his imperturbable hair."
A face in the crowd or a brilliant manipulation of the mobs?
Democrats are desperately looking for some language, some angle, to discredit what has risen out of middle-income America. Though Palin may not always be the best messenger, these generalizations are demeaning and reflect an urban bias against the rest of the country.
David Broder of The Washington Post called it "pitch-perfect populism" -- saying it was time to take Palin seriously.
"Blessed with an enthusiastic audience of conservative activists, Palin used the Tea Party gathering and coverage on the cable networks to display the full repertoire she possesses, touching on national security, economics, fiscal and social policy, and every other area where she could draw a contrast with Barack Obama and point up what Republicans see as vulnerabilities in Washington."
The Seattle Post put forth poll numbers from an ABC poll saying Palin's favorables have "deteriorated significantly" to 37 percent -- and the New York Daily News drew from the same poll that 71% of Americans don't believe she is qualified to be President.
Ouch ... Whipping girl, she is ... but those numbers come from the same news organizations who flocked behind Barack Obama like infatuated fans. Populists, in this establishment?
More damaging is when columnists like David Brooks picks apart populism as if it is an emotional condition that has always divided the United States, The Populist Addiction.
"The populists have an Us versus Them mentality. If they continue their random attacks on enterprise and capital, they will only increase the pervasive feeling of uncertainty, which is now the single biggest factor in holding back investment, job creation and growth. They will end up discrediting good policies (the Obama bank reforms are quite sensible) because they will persuade the country that the government is in the hands of reckless Huey Longs."
Brooks conveniently forgets about Ronald Reagan, Theodore Roosevelt or perhaps even Robert Kennedy -- as if every spontaneous human fire across America's landscape over the past 200 years has been a bad thing.
It was alright for the people to fawn over Bill Clinton but Brooks would rather compare Sarah Palin to William Jennings Bryan or Huey Long? Brooks rightfully points to Abraham Lincoln and Alexander Hamilton, as thinkers independent of a popular or reactionary crowd. But what would pundits say about John Adams or any number of the founders?
Would Ben Franklin be discounted by today's mainstream media due to his adoration of anarchy? How might Thomas Jefferson fare against such stuffy elitists ignoring his concerns for the common man (as if the naysayers believe the primacy of the individual has no part in this present day populism)?
I hate to borrow from that 1992 campaign but blind fanaticism isn't driving the tea party movement.
It's the economy, stupid.
April 15th promises to be a busy day around America for Tea Parties.
The list of tea parties in New York on Tax Day is a long one.
I suspect this is just the beginning.
As a courtesy to the hundreds of volunteers out there making these events happen, News Copy will be updating the following list.
We will also be highlighting each tea party group and covering the revolts all over New York, including much national coverage (Many thanks to Barry Pardee, the New York State Tax Day Tea Party Coordinator).
The following is a list of CONFIRMED Tea Party Tax Revolts planned within the state of New York. Please note that we ONLY list events happening on April 15th.
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City: Albany
When: April 15, 11:00am - 2:00pm
Where: Corning Preserve
Contact: EMAIL
Other Info: http://www.albanyteaparty.com/
Facebook Group: CLICK HERE
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City: Albion
When: April 15, 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Where: Orleans County Courthouse Square, Main St. at State St.
Other Info: Let people know to bring their own signs, and tea.
Contact Info: EMAIL
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City: Binghamton
When: April 15, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Where: Confluence Park, S. Washington St.
Contact: EMAIL
Other Info: Requesting every one bring symbolic empty wallets, shirt off their back and tea bags.
Website: CLICK HERE
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City: Buffalo
When: April 15, Noon
Where: Across from City Hall
Contact: EMAIL
Other Info:
Facebook Group: Coming Soon
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City: Canton
When: April 15, 11:00am - 2:00pm
Where: On the corner of Main Street (Rt. 11) & Park, Across from the Canton Post
Contact: EMAIL
Other Info:
Facebook Group:
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City: Corning
When: April 15, 5:30 pm
Where: Centerway Square
Contact: EMAIL
Other Info: Blog
Facebook Group: Click Here
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City: Eastern Long Island
When: April 15, 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: East Hampton (NY) City Hall then to 3-Mile Harbor (City Pier), 159 Pantigo Road
Contact: EMAIL
Other Info:
Facebook Group: Click Here
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City: Elmira
When: April 15, 9:00am - 9:00pm (see event contact for details)
Where: At N. Main St. and Gray St.
Contact: EMAIL
Other Info:
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City: Endicott
When: April 15, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Where: Endicott Post Office on Washington Ave
Contact: EMAIL
Other Info:
Facebook Group: Coming Soon
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City: Fishkill
When: April 15, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where: Dutchess Stadium, 1500 Rte. 9D
Contact: EMAIL
Other Info: www.fishkillteaparty.com
Facebook Group: CLICK HERE
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City: Gardiner
When: April 15, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: The Rail Trail, Route 44/55
Contact: EMAIL
Phone: 845.255.3557
Other Info: gardinersright.org
Facebook Group: Coming Soon!
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City: Gouverneur
When: April 15, email contact for time
Where: Village Square
Contact: EMAIL
Other Info:
Facebook Group:
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City: Hauppague
When: April 15, 5:30pm
Where: Korean War Memorial, 100 Veterans Memorial Highway, #3
Suffolk County Dennison Building
Contact: EMAIL
Other Info:
Facebook Group: Coming Soon
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City: Hicksville, Long Island
When: April 15, 5:30pm - 8:00pm
Where: Broadway Mall
Contact: EMAIL
Other Info: Click Here
Facebook Group: Coming Soon
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City: Kingston
When: April 15, 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Where: RT. 9W across from the Hudson Valley Mall
Contact: EMAIL
Other Info:
Facebook Group:
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City: Massapequa
When: April 15, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Where: Massapequa Train Station on the Sunrise Hwy side
Contact: EMAIL
Other Info: Click Here
Facebook Group: Coming Soon!
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City: Medford
When: April 15, Noon
Where: The wedge across from Tremont Elementrary School
Contact: EMAIL
Other Info:
Facebook Group:
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City: Nanuet
When: April 15, 12:00 Noon — 5:00 pm
Where: Corner of Route 59 and Middletown Road
Contact: EMAIL
Other Info:
Facebook Group:
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City: New York City
When: April 15, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Where: City Hall Park
Contact: EMAIL
Other Info:
Facebook Group: CLICK HERE
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City: Norwich
When: April 15, 9:00am - Noon
Where: Courthouse on Broad St. (Route 12)
Contact: EMAIL
Other Info:
Facebook Group: Coming Soon
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City: Riverhead
When: April 15, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Where: Riverhead Riverfront (behind the east end Arts Council in downtown Riverhead)
Contact: EMAIL
Other Info:
Meet-up Group: Click Here
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City: Rochester
When: April 15, 11:00am
Where: Downtown Rochester, Genesee Crossroads Park
Contact: EMAIL
Other Info:
Facebook Group: Click Here
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City: Rome
When: April 15, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where: Fort Stanwix
Contact: EMAIL
Other Info:
Facebook Group: Coming Soon
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City: Sag Harbor
When: 12:00 p.m. until ….
Where: Long Wharf
Contact:EMAIL
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City: Smithtown
When: April 15th, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm+
Where: on Route 347 & Moriches Rd (west of Toys R Us)
Contact: EMAIL
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City: Staten Island
When: April 15, Noon
Where: Cong. Michael McMahon’s office, 265 New Dorp Lane, at the corner of Edison Street
Contact: EMAIL
Other Info: http://taxdayteapartysiny.blogspot.com/
Facebook Group: Coming Soon
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City: Syracuse
When: April 15, 11:30 am - 1:30pm
Where: Federal Building
Contact: EMAIL
Other Info:
Facebook Group: Click Here
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City: White Plains
When: April 15, Noon
Where: Outside the Westchester Count Center
Contact: EMAIL
Other Info:LateHitSports.com/TaxDayTeaParty
Facebook Group: Coming Soon
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City: Windham
When: April 15, 5:00 p.m. until …
Where: Windham Civic Center
Contact info: Jim Varelas at 589-5849
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The Tea Parties aren't going away.
I went down to Washington, D.C. on December 15th with the Rockland Tea Party group, Conserveality -- Forum For Conservative Reality for the Code Red Rally against the healthcare bill.
We went down to make a bit of noise -- and I think Congress heard us.
Both Michele Bachmann and Laura Ingraham were on hand to rally the people at this Senate Emergency Rally.
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