Richmond.com ran an article about the Tea Party, saying it offers more questions than answers. While there is much I could respond to in the article, I will focus on what, to me, is the most fundamental issue and easiest to clarify: While there are reasons to expect the Tea Party to eventually run out [...]
The tea party movement continues to grow a year and a half after the movement began. The last few months Richmond Tea Party has received requests to start local tea party groups. The interest to hold local government accountable is very high, as people realize that we must solve the problems in our own backyard before [...]
Celebrate Flag Day on Monday, June 14, with the Richmond Tea Party and fellow patriots. We will be having a picnic at Byrd Park at the Shields Lake Picnic Shelter. Bring yourself, your family, and your friends along with a picnic dinner. Beginning at 5:30, committee chairpersons and their teams will be on hand to [...]
This is a great video that really moved me. I had never heard the second verse before. Watch the spontaneous response of this Tea Party crowd.
Karen Hurd from the Hampton Roads Tea Party released the following statement about the race in Virginia’s 2nd district. The Hampton Roads Tea Party was created to fight back an overreaching, corrupt, and obese government – at all levels. The Tea Party movement, including the Hampton Roads Tea Party holds both the Republicans and the [...]
Virginia is blessed with ample, productive farmland; timber; mineral resources, including energy; established deepwater ports and shipbuilding; a centrally located air facility; and a populace that is hard working, fundamentally honest and leans fiscally conservative. What stands in our way? The problem is jamming Virginians into a mold through common national legislation that dictates every [...]
This is an excellent articulation of why the Tea Party movement is a focused political force with precise goals and doesn’t fit the Left’s caricature of a self-contradictory mob of angry people just looking to shout at someone for no rational reason. Here’s an excerpt: Americans are a generous people, unwilling to tolerate the poor [...]
In the wake of defeats of establishment candidates in recent Republican and Democrat primaries around the country, two Virginia Tea Party leaders are personally continuing that trend by endorsing non-establishment candidates in their respective districts. Karen Miner Hurd, Founder of the Hampton Roads Tea Party, privately endorses Ben Loyola for Congress in the GOP primary (2nd [...]
The Richmond Tea Party will be kicking off the new Goochland Tea Party in a couple of weeks – details below. Our goal is to foster political activism at the local and district levels through smaller, community based groups. In order to give these local groups the support they need, the plan is for them [...]
The "Tea Party" is a topic popping up on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and a quick Google search shows 42 million web hits. You have seen the Rallies, the Signs, heard CNN, read articles on the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times. Television Political commentators find the Tea Party a constant topic. But 'Who' [...]
Yesterday, on Katie Couric's show, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg "speculated" that the terrorist who tried to bomb Time Square was "someone with a political agenda that doesn't like the healthcare bill." In other words, he was trying to blame the Tea Party movement and the patriotic Americans who stood up and fought against this [...]
