Congratulations to Richmond Tea Party's own Susan Lascolette for winning the Republican canvass for Goochland Board of Supervisors in District 1, defeating Phil "P.C." Hunnel. Susan has been long-time volunteer in Richmond Tea Party, serving on the Board of Directors. Additionally, she was the driving force behind the creation of the Goochland Tea Party. We [...]
Have you looked at the national debt clock lately? It has a handy “time machine” feature (top right corner) that is frightening in what it portends for our federal budget if we continue with our out-of-control federal spending. While 2010 looks pretty bad, with a national debt of $13.7 trillion, the clock projects $17.4 trillion in [...]
Yesterday's victory was tremendous, and one we should savor. The hard work is still ahead of us, of course. But I think all of the supporters of the Richmond Tea Party and supporters of Tea Party / Patriot / 9/12 groups across Virginia truly earned the following comments taken from this morning's Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial: [...]
The focus of the 2010 election five days from now has been on Congress, but Virginians will also be faced with voting on three proposed amendments to Virginia’s constitution (click here for details from the Virginia Board of Elections). The Richmond Tea Party leadership recommends you vote NO on questions #1 and #2. Both delve [...]
Election day is tomorrow, November 2nd. To visit the VA State Board of Elections to find out where to vote or what candidates/ballot questions will be on you ballot tomorrow, click HERE. Ensure that your voice is heard; VOTE!
If, as pundits predict, Republicans recapture the House of Representatives from the Democrats in elections next month, Congressman Eric Cantor (R-Va.) would most likely become majority leader, and “he could be Barack Obama’s worst nightmare,” according to an October 2 Wall Street Journal article by Steve Moore, senior economics writer for the WSJ editorial page. Cantor [...]
...remaining original member of the crack White House Economics Team. Bloomberg is reporting that Larry Summers is expected to quit his post as director of the president's National Economics Council after the November elections. Other members who've abandoned ship include Peter Orzag, who paddled away after announcing his resignation in June, and Christina Romer, who [...]
It depends who you ask. If you ask the GOP leadership, "we're all the Tea Party..." Read about it here. To excerpt: House Republican leader John Boehner says: "There really is no difference between what Republicans believe in and what the Tea Party activists believe in." Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele says: "If I [...]
An excellent new resource was just made available for helping proponents of constitutionally limited government organize their get-out-the-vote efforts more effectively than we have in the past to have a real impact on elections. It’s called the Concord Project and is found at www.concordproject.org. For a detailed post about this initiative, click here.
Top Ten Reasons Why Congress Hates the Tea Party & Patriot groups (and why you should register for the Oct. 8-9 Virginia Tea Party Patriots Convention at www.vateapartyconvention.com): 10. Most Tea Party & Patriot group supporters actually work for a living, and it’s human nature not to like people who are so very different from [...]
Rasmussen reported on July 21 that: Over the past year, the Democrats fixed on what they thought was a devastating four-word slogan to defeat Republicans in 2010: "The Party of No." Unlike many campaign slogans, it was fair enough. After all, the Republicans had opposed almost unanimously all of President Obama's major bills (socialized health [...]
On May 21, Richmond Tea Party sent questionnaires to the two candidates running to fill the 27th district House of Delegates seat. Click here to download Roxann Robinson's response. As of the date of this post, we have not received a response from Dr. William "Bill" Brown.
