TAX DAY 2012: VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!!
Update: City of Richmond Audit of RTP
Want an update on the RTP/City of Richmond exchange? Check Richmond Tea Party volunteer Colleen Owens' guest post at Righsidenews.com Along with background information of the events, you can read the City of Richmond audit notification letter sent to RTP. An excerpt of Ms Owens' closing remarks is provided: The Richmond Tea Party stands for constitutional [...]
City of Richmond Responds to Our Refund Request
A few weeks ago, I reported on how the Richmond Tea Party invoiced the City of Richmond for a refund of the expenses incurred from our three Tax Day Rallies in Kanawha Plaza, the same place where Occupy Richmond illegally camped for two weeks without paying a single fee to the City. We figured [...]
Time for All Tea Parties to Force Equality Under the Law
For two weeks, the Occupy Richmond group camped out in Kanawha Plaza in downtown Richmond. They acquired no permits, followed no regulations, paid no fees, and broke the law for their continued presence. In contrast, the Richmond Tea Party held three separate Tax Day Rallies in the same location, for which we acquired every permit, [...]
What is the Cost of Free Speech?
The following post was submitted by Richmond Tea Party board member Corky Mann. ---- Let me start with a little about where Tea Parties in general, and Richmond Tea Party specifically, stand in regard to freedom of speech and peaceful assembly. For starters, EVERYONE is entitled to free speech. EVERYONE is entitled to peacefully assemble. [...]
Press Release (10/26/2011): Refund for Tax Day Rallies
On Wednesday, 10/26/2011, Richmond Tea Party issued the following press release. It quickly became a national (story. See here, here, and here for starters.) ---- The Richmond Tea Party along with the rest of the tea party movement is very much about getting back to the basics of our founding documents, particularly the Declaration of [...]
Interview with RTP President
To give you an idea of what Richmond Tea Party is working on now and for the future, I interviewed President Eric McGrane. My questions and his responses are below. ---- What major initiatives are on tap for Richmond Tea Party this year? The primary focus for the rest of the year will be activities [...]
The Value of Freedom
Let’s review: $14.4 trillion in national debt $114 trillion in unfunded liabilities No federal budget passed in over two years TARP Bailouts of massive corporations while average Americans are struggling just to provide for their families ObamaCare (i.e., forcing citizens to purchase a product or service, while calling it “health care reform”) Many thousands of [...]
RTP to Discuss ObamaCare on Comcast Channel 95 Tonight, 9:00pm; UPDATE: CANCELLED
Please tune in to Comcast channel 95 at 9:00pm this evening to watch Richmond Tea Party board members Gilbert Wilkerson and Joe Guarino discuss the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (a.k.a., ObamaCare). Joe was one of the leaders in helping guide Virginia's Health Care Freedom Act into law, which Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is [...]
Trumping the race card
Okay, I’ve been trying to get you pumped about the Ebony & Ivory Two Nekkid Heads all-day event next Thursday (May 5th) in Richmond, but now I’m going to explain its importance to the greater freedom movement in America and why it’s critical you participate. One of the big reasons our nation is in such [...]
Public Debate on ObamaCare — Thursday, April 28th
Richmond Tea Party just received this from Virginia Cowles, President of the League of Women Voters: The League of Women Voters of the Richmond Metropolitan Area is sponsoring a program, "Perspectives on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," on Thursday, 28 April 2011, at 5:30 p.m. at the Tuckahoe Library. Three speakers representing three very [...]
Ebony & Ivory Tour starting in Richmond, May 5th
Heads-up: Richmond Tea Party is working on a great event for next month you WILL want to be a part of. Remember Joe the Plumber? The man who with a simple question got then-Senator Obama to admit to his economic policy of “spread the wealth around”? He’s teaming up with Kevin Jackson—author of The BIG [...]