About Eric M

Eric uncomfortably admits that until about 20 years ago, he was a political "free rider", always thinking that others would do the heavy lifting to keep America on course. After watching both democrats and republicans steer us FAR in the wrong direction, Eric knew he had to get involved. Now working with Richmond Tea Party to advance conservative principles, Eric serves on the Board of Directors and as a resource for "all things technology".

House Passes Continuing Funding Resolution; Defunds Obamacare

In a welcome change of events this week, the republican House of Representatives presented and passed a continuing resolution (CR) today that funds 100% of government....except Obamacare (Affordable Care Act).  This is after all indications showed that the republicans were unwilling to attempt this strategy to stop the job-killing and rights-restricting Obamacare program, and had [...]

By |2013-09-21T00:27:29-04:00September 21st, 2013|Featured Categories, Government, Healthcare|0 Comments

Please Call House Leadership Early AM Wednesday!

A quick "call-to-action" for tomorrow, Weds 9/18! From our friends at Virginians for Quality Healthcare: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ You're having an effect! A House strategy meeting is being held tomorrow at 9. Let's all flood the lines of the House Leadership early tomorrow and tell them to stand strong to defund Obamacare. Set your reminders/clocks now for [...]

By |2013-09-17T22:12:19-04:00September 17th, 2013|Action Alerts, Healthcare|0 Comments

Chesterfield Spending Taxpayer Dollars to Propagandize Residents on Meals Tax

[dropcap type="circle" color="#ffffff" background="#cf2121"]C[/dropcap]hesterfield residents: How do you feel about the county spending your tax dollars to market the proposed meals tax to you? Launching a new website to specifically sway the opinions of uninformed residents? ITS FOR THE CHILDREN, you see. What, you don't think that the county needs to tighten its belt during [...]

By |2013-08-26T22:14:07-04:00August 26th, 2013|Featured Categories, Government, Taxes|1 Comment

A Petition Worth Signing

RTP supporters: We're always wary of petitions, because the possibility of abuse (by harvesting your contact info) is always present. However, sometimes a petition will cross our paths that seems to have merit above the risk of sharing your info. One such petition is the call from Senators Cruz and Lee to defund Obamacare. The [...]

By |2013-08-13T23:13:50-04:00August 13th, 2013|Action Alerts, Featured Categories, Healthcare|0 Comments

“Runaway Slave” Movie Event with C.L. Bryant!

The Richmond Tea Party Minority Outreach Committee (MOAC) is pleased to announce a major event in Richmond! We will be bringing C.L. Bryant to Richmond on Thursday Sept. 5th for a special showing of his movie "Runaway Slave", with a town hall discussion to follow. Don't miss this unique opportunity to be a part of [...]

By |2013-08-13T00:21:25-04:00August 12th, 2013|Featured Categories, Tea Party|1 Comment

IRS Making Moves to Lock YOUR Investments?

So it appears that the IRS has made a new rule about Limited Liability Corporations (LLCs) to limit your options to shift your savings/investment dollars overseas. If this signaling the beginning of the federal government working to get tighter control of YOUR money to suit its own ends? This is not unprecedented, and any claims [...]

By |2013-08-08T00:37:24-04:00August 8th, 2013|Economy|0 Comments

‘Hands off My Healthcare’ Rally August 19th

Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is having a rally on August 19th to oppose any expansion of Medicaid in Virginia (and rights-reducing Obamacare, generally). Unfortunately for all VA taxpayers, expanding Medicaid will only result in higher taxes for all, once the federal government "sugar" runs out after the initial implementation. And let's state the obvious fact...all [...]

By |2013-08-18T19:07:52-04:00August 4th, 2013|Action Alerts, Featured Categories, Healthcare|5 Comments

RTP Monthly Meeting – 7/25/13

Greetings Fellow Patriots! There will be a meeting of the Richmond Tea Party on Thursday, July 25th at 7 p.m. Agenda items include: Will update you on the past 30 days' events (there were many), and feature a Campaign & Elections Team presentation on how you fit in to the upcoming campaign season activities. Also, [...]

By |2013-07-21T22:13:36-04:00July 21st, 2013|Action Alerts, Featured Categories, Tea Party|0 Comments

Global Warming Scare Is Dying

[column col="1/2"]Well, there hasn't been much talk lately about "global warming", except in the context of trying to shutter America's coal industry. Perhaps this is because the scaremongering is unraveling, that folks are beginning to realize that the science and contemporary observation just simply doesn't support the theories/models for climate change. There's some very frank [...]

By |2013-07-20T23:50:18-04:00July 20th, 2013|Energy, Featured Categories, Media, Video|0 Comments

VA Set to See Highest Minimum Healthcare Cost Increase in US?

A review of a report from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce shows some sobering figures regarding the expected increases in health insurance premiums nationwide. All states are expected to see double-digit increases, but for Virginia, we're "lucky" enough to be expecting the largest minimum increase in the cost in premiums from across the [...]

By |2013-07-20T16:29:09-04:00July 20th, 2013|Featured Categories, Healthcare|0 Comments

RTP Attends “DC March for Jobs” – UPDATED

Calling All Patriots! You Must Stop Amnesty Now! Join the DC March for Jobs in Washington, July 15th The Gang of 8 Amnesty Bill has passed the Senate, and is now in the House. We MUST stop this bill. If we don’t, millions will be put out of work, you will be saddled with Billions [...]

By |2013-07-20T19:28:13-04:00July 2nd, 2013|Action Alerts, Economy, Featured Categories|5 Comments

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