Tea Partiers Go Big With Fundraising Campaign to Rival MoveOn.org
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Eyeing the success of Moveon.org and other grassroots groups, the conservative-minded FreedomWorks, which has been at the frontline organizing tea partiers into a half-million strong membership, has announced ambitious plans on the fundraising front.
"(MoveOn) raised around $31 million in 2003. We're not sure we can raise that much, but think we can be in the multi-millions and be a major player in 2010," said Rob Jordan, FreedomWorks' vice president of federal and state campaigns.
On Monday, FreedomWorks brought together dozens of conservative activists from as far away as California, Arkansas, Ohio and Florida and put them in a room full of reporters, hoping to let the grassroots speak to the Washington establishment through the press.
"It's hot in Florida, Charlie Crist is on the run," said Thomas Gaiten, a Florida field coordinator for Freedom Works, who opposes the Florida governor's bid for the U.S. Senate seat.
"I'm arranging an event on February 10 for the one year anniversary of 'the stimulus hug,'" Gaiten said, referring to a hug between President Obama and Crist last year. Crist was an exuberant host and endorsed the president's $787 billion stimulus package, for which Crist is now under fire.
"The hug" is a moment that conservatives have flogged in Florida. A few months ago Crist was leading his Republican primary competitor, former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio, by 30 points. But the tea party movement in Florida has been aggressively organizing for Rubio both on the ground and on the Web and the latest polls show the two neck-and-neck.
Meanwhile in Arkansas, tea partiers are confident of ousting embattled Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln, who had wavered on the health care bill before supporting it in votes taken before Christmas
Lincoln "is out," said Rob Porto of Little Rock. "The only question is who is going to replace her, and we're still vetting prospective Republican candidates. We're planning a number of debates."
Greg Fettig drove the 600 miles from his native Indiana to give notice to incumbents that just because they are safe, they should be looking over their shoulder.
"I used to think I was alone, now I know there are others out there who want to stand up for fiscal conservatism," he said.
Fettig, who co-founded a group called "Hoosier Patriots," lives in the district of longtime Republican Rep. Dan Burton, but said he thinks it's time for Burton to go.
"He's got no fire. ... He's been there too long, people should just serve a term or two and then get out," he said.
The conservative, organic grassroots uprising is proving to be quite powerful, with Republicans all over the country scrambling to get in front of it, but the question remains whether the Republican Party will be able to harness it.
A National Tea Party Convention is scheduled for Nashville, Tenn., in early February with former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, a darling of the movement, as one of the featured speakers.
Tea party organizers admit they are a scattered and loose knit group despite efforts by established organizations like FreedomWorks doing the lifting.
Joking that the task of organizing is kind of like "herding cats," the activists are so anti-establishment they don't even like the idea that their own organization is having a convention and charging money for people to attend.
"I like Sarah Palin," said Scott Boston of the Bowling Green Ohio Tea Party Patriots.
"But I'm not going to spend $600 on a ticket. Tea party meetings are free. I have a feeling that the convention in Nashville is going to be about people who want to lead our parade but wouldn't be willing to march in it," Boston said.
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Source: [url]http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/01/25/tea-partiers-big-fundraising-campaign-rival-moveonorg/[/url]
Will be voting my fatass Democrat Representative out of office this year. :woop:
Grassroots groups? Grassroots my ass. That is for all involved.
[QUOTE=MercZ;19852099]Grassroots my ass.[/QUOTE]
Some grass seeds stuck to your but?
I was watching fox news once and they were interviewing one of these people.
He called himself a teabagger.
I lol'd.
Finally we're getting it together.
FreedomWorks and "grassroots" should never be mentioned in the same sentence. They are a Big Health/Oil/Banking front that spews blatant lies to scare and manipulate people into getting on a bus and showing up at their protests. Astroturfing at it's finest.
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;19857335]FreedomWorks and "grassroots" should never be mentioned in the same sentence. They are a Big Health/Oil/Banking front that spews blatant lies to scare and manipulate people into getting on a bus and showing up at their protests. Astroturfing at it's finest.[/QUOTE]
What? And MoveOn is any better on the opposite side of the spectrum?
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;19861257]What? And MoveOn is any better on the opposite side of the spectrum?[/QUOTE]
MoveOn does not have several of the largest industries in the United States providing the majority of it's funding
Wait, they'll give money so they don't have to give money? That's hilarious.
How are they going to change things if they are conservatives.
Just saying, it's kind of against the whole idea.
MoveOn.org works because it's like progress yay
what's the opposite of progress
i don't even
[QUOTE=thisispain;19864946]How are they going to change things if they are conservatives.
Just saying, it's kind of against the whole idea.
MoveOn.org works because it's like progress yay
what's the opposite of progress
i don't even[/QUOTE]
There's the progressive way
The conservative way
[i]And the tea party way[/i]
tea is for socialist english people
these fuckers need to find a stereotype and stick with it
[QUOTE=thisispain;19864946]How are they going to change things if they are conservatives.
Just saying, it's kind of against the whole idea.
MoveOn.org works because it's like progress yay
what's the opposite of progress
i don't even[/QUOTE]
The conservative ideal isn't about no progress or change at all, since that's impossible, it's about focusing on improving what's already there (existing laws), rather than making large reforms (a whole lot of new laws). Slowly. Patiently.
Like a snail.
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[QUOTE=O'10er;19865292]The conservative ideal isn't about no progress or change at all, since that's impossible, it's about focusing on improving what's already there (existing laws), rather than making large reforms (a whole lot of new laws). Slowly. Patiently.[/QUOTE]
but that's progress
and they don't do any of that
Yeah the Tea Parties aren't about reform to specific legistlation, they're just about complaining about SOCIALISM and WHERE'S THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE OBAMA
[QUOTE=thisispain;19865280]tea is for socialist english people
these fuckers need to find a stereotype and stick with it[/QUOTE]
Well, MoveOn is basically the bitch of the Democratic Party. At least FreedomWorks hates both parties instead of just one.
Besides, the idea of a "tea party" is to [i]throw the tea away[/i]. Know your historical references.
fuck that
get the fuck off my tea conservatives
go play with some keys
[QUOTE=thisispain;19865315]but that's progress
and they don't do any of that[/QUOTE]
They do, albiet at a much slower, one might say more thought out rate. Instead of passing lots of legislation, a conservative would prefer to look at existing legislations, and fix them up. Judging progress by the amount of legislation one passes is a bad idea.
Though if we're talking about social conservatism, yeah, that shit's retarded.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;19865367]Well, MoveOn is basically the bitch of the Democratic Party. At least FreedomWorks hates both parties instead of just one.
Besides, the idea of a "tea party" is to [I]throw the tea away[/I]. Know your historical references.[/QUOTE]
That only works on the most basic level.
The colonists drank tea a lot, they threw it away because it was being taxed without them having any representation or say in the matter. They were sacrificing something they enjoyed and facing prosecution in order to protest unfair taxation.
The average tea party protest goer isn't sacrificing or risking anything. A lot of them go there on motor scooters for christ's sake.
I thought tea partied were for the British?
Americans stop stealing all our things!!!
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[QUOTE=Sigma-Lambda;19865532]That only works on the most basic level.
The colonists drank tea a lot, they threw it away because it was being taxed without them having any representation or say in the matter. They were sacrificing something they enjoyed and facing prosecution in order to protest unfair taxation.
The average tea party protest goer isn't sacrificing or risking anything. A lot of them go there on motor scooters for christ's sake.[/QUOTE]
These tea party goers believe Congress is no longer representing them in the government and are just serving themselves instead of the people.
And, do these people look old to you?
[img]http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2009/04/16/tea_party_protest_033.jpg[/img]
I don't see any scooters in this crowd
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I see quite a few old people..
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;19866605]These tea party goers believe Congress is no longer representing them in the government and are just serving themselves instead of the people.[/QUOTE]
No they believe that Obama is a socialist Kenyan Muslim and that the government should stay out of their Medicare.
If TEA was genuine, they should have been around much longer than spontaneously coming about and then reviving themselves when their masters desire it. Astroturf would be a more accurate term here. Clinton's administration also had their share of these types who disappeared after Gore's defeat.
Was TEA protesting TARP? No. Were they protesting wasteful defense spending? No. Were they ever around making noise about the iron triangle before? No. When did they start becoming loud? After January 2009. And I'm not an Obama supporter, fyi, but I can tell the difference between genuine political agitation and populist fear mongering from big business.
True 'grassroots' movements are those who have continuously came out to protest things like NAFTA, WTO, and so on, regardless of what president/party controls the country. That is key. The only thing that TEA baggers share with them is they have their share of idiots who some people use to make them look stupid/violent/aimless.
I personally think the last true, mass grassroots movement would have had to have been the anti-Vietnam movement, and before that the labor socialist movement before WW I (Eugene Debs) After that Americans became aimless sheep. Take that as you will.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;19861257]What? And MoveOn is any better on the opposite side of the spectrum?[/QUOTE]
yeah it is silly
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[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;19866605]These tea party goers believe Congress is no longer representing them in the government and are just serving themselves instead of the people.
And, do these people look old to you?
[img]http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2009/04/16/tea_party_protest_033.jpg[/img]
I don't see any scooters in this crowd
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Trying to find a black person is very hard
Where's the tea?
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Trying to find a black person is very hard[/QUOTE]
I FOUND ONE
wait that was just a shadow
[QUOTE=Trotsky;19871034]
Trying to find a black person is very hard[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=882005[/url]
:downs:
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;19871351][url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=882005[/url]
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I know you're the conservative source for news, but you must read your posts
they're leaders, not majority.
of course the closet racist conservatives are going to take a black person as a role of leadership against a black president
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