Volunteers Needed for New Fundraising Committee

The Fundraising Committee is in the process of forming and volunteers are needed. You have the opportunity to make a real difference on a vital committee. If you have experience with direct mail fundraising, Internet fundraising, email marketing, or public relations techniques for fundraising, we want to hear from you. This committee is responsible for raising [...]

By |2010-06-21T21:43:38-04:00June 21st, 2010|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Portents from the Tea Party Force in New York?

From the NY Daily News: Here in this city of labor rights, gay pride and lefty havens, Tea Partyers lead double lives as foot soldiers in a quiet war to reverse the direction of America. A statewide Marist Poll of 686 New Yorkers commissioned last month by the Daily News highlighted the phenomenon: One in [...]

By |2010-06-14T21:35:03-04:00June 14th, 2010|Tea Party|1 Comment

Tea Party Surge in #VA2, Glenn Nye District?

The second congressional district of Virginia has been interesting to watch with 7 candidates in the race. One candidate, Scott Rigell, is the GOP Party favorite with numerous endorsements from the GOP like Governor McDonnell, Lt. Gov Bill Bolling, Minority Whip Cantor and over a dozen other GOP politicians. The Hampton Roads Tea Party has [...]

By |2010-06-08T00:01:17-04:00June 7th, 2010|Uncategorized|2 Comments

Hampton Roads Tea Party Board Endorses Ben Loyola

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 [...]

By |2010-05-28T20:04:53-04:00May 27th, 2010|Tea Party|0 Comments

A Focused and Powerful Tea Party

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 [...]

By |2010-05-20T13:37:41-04:00May 20th, 2010|Tea Party|1 Comment

New Goochland Tea Party Chapter Forming Soon!

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 [...]

By |2010-05-19T03:07:45-04:00May 19th, 2010|Tea Party|4 Comments

Nation Wide Tea Party Demographics: Who is the Tea Party

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' [...]

By |2010-05-06T19:39:48-04:00May 6th, 2010|Tea Party|4 Comments

Explaining the 17th Amendment

Two days ago, the Richmond Times-Dipatch printed a response to Jamie Radtke’s April 25th article "Tea Party: Right Wing or Mainstream?". In it, the author does a good job of quickly explaining why Senators were originally appointed by state legislatures and not elected by popular vote, as instituted by the 17th amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Here's [...]

By |2010-09-08T00:17:39-04:00May 6th, 2010|Uncategorized|6 Comments

Tea Parties in Utah getting it done

The Tea Partiers are having a REAL effect in Utah. Robert Bennett, a RINO who has sold out principled conservatives out time after time, is about to be humiliated in the U.S. Senate convention coming up in Utah. No doubt Orrin Hatch will realize he is next and start to modify his behavior. Kay Baily [...]

By |2010-05-16T02:20:24-04:00April 27th, 2010|Tea Party|1 Comment

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