You won't believe this (well, yes you probably will). From The Hill on Friday: With little fanfare, the House quickly voted Friday to repeal a financial transparency requirement for senior government officials, which was part of a much-heralded government transparency bill last year. Members passed S. 716 by unanimous consent, with no debate and [...]
From the Executive Director Greetings, fellow Patriots! It seems every week the national and local news gets worse. Just within the past 2 weeks we’ve had our elections “nationalized” through executive order, unemployment numbers unmasked an abysmal picture of the job market, 2nd Amendment rights continued to be assaulted, apparently another massive cache of bullets [...]
Lt. General Wm. G "Jerry" Boykin U.S. Army retired - Activist for Liberty Sunday April 21st at 3pm Ft. Lee Baptist Church, Richmond, VA General Boykin will speak to Tea Partiers and the Public about Changing U.S. Ideology: a Drift towards Marxism SEE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7w3ZEbC09k Photo: US Army via Getty Images Lt.General [...]
Heads-up! If you live in Richmond City and want to be a delegate for the Republican nominating convention in May, tomorrow (Tuesday) is the deadline to file your pre-file form. Get your information HERE. For those of you in Colonial Heights, your deadline is fast-approaching as well. Your delegate pre-file [...]
The Richmond Times-Dispatch released a Q&A interview session today with Larry Nordvig, RTP's new executive director. Catch it on the RTD site HERE. The board of directors of the Richmond Tea Party recently selected Laurence “Larry” Nordvig as the organization’s new executive director. He says the group’s emails go to thousands of supporters. Nordvig, [...]
As part of our efforts to combat the massive tax hike recently passed by the General Assembly (HB2313), we wanted to let your republican representatives in the Richmond area know that you weren't happy. Not at ALL. Besides asking you to email Governor McDonnell to tell him to veto the bill, we called registered [...]
You have likely seen discussion recently regarding "sequestration", or the mandatory federal budget cuts (a decrease in the INCREASE of spending, but that's another story) that were signed into law last year by President Obama. Now, those cuts are mandatory, but where to apply them is completely at the whims of our government. There is [...]
Greetings Patriots! As a matter of introduction, I’m Laurence “Larry” Nordvig. In case you have not yet heard, I have just been chosen as the new Executive Director of the Richmond Tea Party. I consider it both an honor and an opportunity to have been selected. My vision for the Tea Party is the same [...]
If you are a Chesterfield County resident, it is your duty/responsibility to be informed about the county budget. There will be a public budget meeting Wednesday, March 20th at 6:30 PM in the public meeting room to hear discussion about how your hard-earned money will be spent. Not willing to be part of the [...]
Why in the world is the federal government involved in setting nationwide education standards? Exactly where is that power given to the federal government? Don't these people realize that you get the absolute BEST education outcomes when states are free to experiment/manage their own education methods and standards? We're supposed to have 50 individual experiment [...]
March Mania in RTP: Meeting March 7 Join us for our monthly meeting on Thursday, March 7th at 7:00 (Check your email or the website for any possible updates due to weather.) When: Thursday, March 7th, 7-9 pm (doors open at 6:30 pm) Where: Grace Alive Church Meeting Hall, 4912 E. Millridge Pkwy., Midlothian (near [...]
Jenny Beth Martin from the Tea Party Patriots national organization had some comments about the long-term viability of tea party efforts published in Time magazine on February 27th. Yes, you heard correctly...Time magazine. Bottom line? We're not going anywhere! Snippet: It was February 2009 when my family hit rock-bottom. Little did I know that, [...]
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