The Richmond Tea Party leadership has released the following call to action.
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Want to make a difference in Virginia politics? Itching to do something about the mid-term elections? Here’s your chance!
The Richmond Tea Party wants to answer a call for help from the tea parties in the 9th District (southwest Virginia) and from Americans for Limited Government. But we need your help to do it.
They have asked that we send a busload of volunteers to Christiansburg on Saturday, September 11th to help hand out voter guides in a door-to-door campaign to highlight the differences between the candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives.
The current representative is Rick Boucher (D, currently serving his 14th term) who needs to be removed. He is a typical tax and spend big government politician and is a supporter of Cap & Trade legislation. His challenger is Morgan Griffith (R, who has been serving on the VA House since 1994). He is committed to constitutionally limited government.
If you have the time, we need your help to make a difference!
Details:
The 47-passenger bus will depart from the Short Pump Target parking lot at 5:30 AM on Saturday, September 11th. We recommend that you arrive by 5:00 AM.
Richmond Tea Party is paying for the bus, so there is no charge for the volunteers. But, we will ask that you sign a waiver of liability statement prior to boarding the bus.
Breakfast will be served in Christiansburg at 8:30 Saturday morning, and we’ll get started around 9:00 and will depart at 5:00 PM. We will be provided all materials, training, and transportation.
We have to confirm the bus to James River Bus Lines no later than Tuesday, September 7th, so if you can help, please respond as soon as possible to susanl@richmondteaparty.com. Please provide your name and phone number.
Every person will be contacted by phone prior to departure.
May I ask, as to why we are not going to DC like the rest of the nation? Local politics is all fine and good, but I find it in extremely poor taste to do so on the day of the 9/12 rally, let alone on September 11th.
My question is why are we going to Christianburg when we can go to DC for the same purpose? It did not seem to be an issue fore the 8/28 rally, which was a religious gathering, so what is so different about the 9/12 rally, which, being political in nature, is far more useful to our goals.
Do you have an answer?
I see your point, and had some of the same questions until recent events this weekend with Mr. Boucher and this thugs. Three separate incidents happened to members of our 10th Amendment Foundation/Southwest Virginia TEA Party. Just suffice it to say that UMWA members were involved, and pushing and shoving were involved. Mr. Boucher has forgotten that he works for us and not the other way around. Boucher and Pelsoi are one and the same. We here in southwest Virginia need to get rid of Boucher, and it looks like Mr. Griffith can do it, but we have to help. If you want to go to D.C., please do. That is a very important event. I went last year, and I’ll never forget the experience. We hope others will come to help us out.
I know the 9/12 Rally is important but we really need the help here in the 9th district. It is not a local issue. Rick Boucher is a democrat who has dominated our district for 28 years and he is now voting lock step with Pelosi and will vote her back in come January. We need to get rid of Boucher so we can start changing Washington back to conservative principles.
We urgently need to get Boucher voted out and would appreciate the help. This is politics in action at the grass roots and it is a Federal level issue. The more (D)’s behind the names, the more Pelosi, Reid and Obama stay in power.
For those who want to do go the 9 /12 Rally, we strongly support you. But ultimately, the ENTIRE point of the 9/12 rally is to change Congress. That means we have to do the hard work of changing congress versus just talking about it all the time. It is time to put our words to action and do what we said we would do at all these rallies for the last 18 months.