Erica Payne’s ‘F*ck Tea’ Campaign Reveals More About Her Character Than the Tea Party’s

Original posted on Big Government on Aug 13th 2010 at 6:01 am

by Liberty Chick

Congratulations, Tea Partiers!  You know you’ve become a genuine threat to the Progressive movement when they start making t-shirts about you.

The Agenda Project has launched “F*ck Tea”, an anti-Tea Party campaign that aims to “dismiss the tea party and promote the progressive cause.”  Check out their nifty little video promoting their positive cause:

As Agenda Project founder Erica Payne explained to Politico’s Ben Smith:

“We will be launching new products in the next several months to help people all over the country F*ck Tea.  Products like a Glenn Beck Bowl Buddy (Beck B Scrubbin) and others are perfect holiday gifts or just a great way to say, ‘I love you and our country’ to your spouse, friend or family.”

The website features a variety of t-shirts and mugs imprinted with the slogan “F*uck tea,” and Ms. Payne infers there will be more to come in the future.  It also splashes a host of unsourced “Tea Party Facts” across the left side of the page, in an attempt to demean and minimize those who belong to or support the Tea Party movement, and imply that those who don’t are somehow of superior intellect based solely upon said “facts.”  Meanwhile, the site dotingly highlights the word “progress” as “a movement toward a goal; advancement; growth; development; continuous improvement,” calling it “The Real American Party.”  Frankly, I see nothing “real” about this or about any of the progressive people involved in it.

Now, I’ll admit, I’m one conservative constitutionalist who embraces the “F” word as part of my regular vocabulary, as much of a shock as that may be to leftists who may have already stereotyped me otherwise.  But I was not aware that the word had become synonymous with positive development and improvement.  (What a relief!)  If brandishing the “F” word across my chest and gallivanting in public is a sign of intellect and the new symbol of the party of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, then I’m more than happy to save my $22.50, thanks.  (Besides, if one’s cause were so important that such a word absolutely had to be used, the Libertarian in me wonders, why not just spell it out?)  Also somewhat amusing about the entire venture  is that the very people railing against the tea parties and against capitalism are shelling out over $20 a shirt for someone’s concocted-idea-turned-business-venture.  It’s the very Capitalist tale that so many of the progressive left heartily opposes.

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Glenn Beck and Judge Andrew Napolitano to Headline “Restoring America” Rally in NJ on Oct. 2

Saturday, October 2, 2010, television and radio hosts Glenn Beck and Judge Andrew Napolitano will team up as keynote speakers for a grassroots rally to celebrate a common vision for America.   A vision to inspire honorable leaders again.  A vision to move this country forward by restoring its most treasured ideals: freedom, liberty and the American spirit of individualism.

Join us at the Great Arena at Six Flags Great Adventure in their 8,500 seat stadium for a day filled with speakers, musical performances and motivational videos.  It’s the perfect opportunity to meet other patriots and activists from across the state and across the country.  Bring your friends and family.

SPEAKERS & MUSIC:

Speakers:

• Glenn Beck, one of America’s leading radio and television personalities; host of the Glenn Beck Program on WOR Talk Radio 710 and the Glenn Beck show on FOX News Channel
• Judge Andrew Napolitano, former NJ Superior Court Judge, noted author, Fox News judicial analyst and host of Freedom Watch
• Lloyd Marcus, Activist, Songwriter, and Vocalist of “American Tea Party Anthem”
• Vanessa Jean Louis, better known as the “Afroconservative”, inner city school counselor, and president of the Frederick Douglass Foundation of NJ
• Steve Malzberg, Conservative Political Talk Radio Host on WOR Talk Radio 710
• Walid Shoebat, Author and Speaker, reformed PLO activist who now speaks out on behalf of the United States and Israel
• Andrew Wilkow, Host of The Wilkow Majority on the Sirius XM Patriot Channel
• and David Webb, Author and Tea Party Activist, co-founder of Tea Party 365, Inc., will serve as Master of Ceremonies

With live performances from:

• Jon David Kahn, Hollywood screenwriter, director and musician whose viral hit “American Heart” has earned praise from the likes of Sarah Palin, Curt Schilling, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Andrew Breitbart
• Hi Caliber, conservative hip-hop rapper, weekly Hip-Hop Rap Up musical newscasts on the Monica Crowley show on WABC-AM 770
• Hollander, NJ based alternative indie-label band
• Mark Burg, NJ based Not-4-Nothin Band

TICKET INFORMATION:

All ticket prices include safari, entrance to park and rally.

Premium Tickets:

• GOLD floor seating, $125
• PREFERRED stadium seating, $75

These tickets are available ONLY at http://www.restoringamericarally.org/Tickets/Tickets.html

General Admission Tickets:

• Child Package (Age 13 and under):  $40
• Adult Package (Age 14+):  $50
• Passholder Ticket (Rally Only):  $25
• Under Age 3:  FREE

These tickets are available at the Six Flags Great Adventure website

TIMES:

Park is open from 10:30am to 9:00pm.

• Restoring America Rally starts at 3:00pm in the Great Arena
• Pre-event concert begins at 2:00pm
• Post-show concert to follow rally

Watch Promo Video |    Download Printable Flyer

Pass the word!  Short link for this page: http://bit.ly/Restoring-America

SEIU, HuffPo and Media Matters: Is an Unholy Alliance About to Unravel?

by Liberty Chick

If you haven’t read by now all the headlines on this story, you’ll want to start at the beginning and read the first post, SEIU Storms Private Residence, Terrorizes Teenage Son of Bank of America Exec.  Because as each day passes, new facts are popping up.  The story seemed so outrageous at first.  After all, the thought of over 500 screaming and chanting protesters surrounding a Bank of America lawyer’s private residence while the man’s teenage son, home alone, hid frightened inside a bathroom – it’s just so extreme, even by SEIU’s standards.

I knew something was up when the following day, Fortune magazine editor Nina Easton, a neighbor of the targeted residence, published an account of the incident and was almost immediately attacked by what seemed like practically a coordinated dogpile of writers from several specific sources.

In almost mirror fashion to the Town Hall events last August, when both the Huffington Post and Media Matters seemingly tried to cover up and dismiss the violent acts that SEIU committed against Kenneth Gladney, the same players were again out in full force.  As our Larry O’Connor wrote, both outlets behaved less like journalists and more like arms of the SEIU press office, dismissing SEIU’s bad behavior and attacking an innocent party with fabricated conflicts of interest as a method of distraction and intimidation.

Bob Borosage, Erica Payne, and John Podesta

And now we learn this:  Erica Payne, the guest who was invited to appear Friday on Megyn Kelley’s Fox News show and proceeded to blame the Tea Parties for the behavior of SEIU?  She was co-founder of Democracy Alliance, the very organization that spawned and is a donor to Media Matters.  SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger is also the Vice-Chair of its Board.

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As SEIU Terrorizes Bank Employee’s Son, HuffPo and MediaMatters Omit Deadbeat Union’s $90 Million Debt

by Liberty Chick

Alinsky Rule #12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

Nina Easton just became the left’s latest target.  Why?  So that SEIU can hide from the truth about its financial liabilities to Bank of America (more on that after the jump).

Easton, a Washington Editor for Fortune Magazine, wrote a column early morning Wednesday, addressing the outrageous protest organized by SEIU and National People’s Action, where 700 protesters stormed the front lawn of the private residence of Greg Baer, deputy general counsel for corporate law at Bank of America.

As I wrote in my post yesterday, “SEIU Storms Private Residence, Terrorizes Teenage Son of Bank of America Exec,” Easton is actually a neighbor of Baer.  When she was startled by the loud, screaming, bullhorn-rattling protesters, she called Baer’s teenage son to check on him.  Home alone, the frightened teenager had locked himself in the bathroom.  After witnessing the entire incident as it unfolded on her neighbor’s private property, Easton criticized the SEIU and left wing groups in her article for crossing the line this time.

Alinsky’s Rule # 12 states,

“Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)”

In almost coordinated lock-step fashion, the 12^th Rule was promptly and firmly applied.  As Larry O’Connor posted on Big Journalism yesterday, a series of several posts soon followed the publication of Nina Easton’s article:

• Late Wednesday evening, John Vandeventer of SEIU posted “Nina Easton & the Bank Lobbyists: Too Close for Comfort” in response.  Conveniently, Vandeventer distracts readers by recounting the sob stories of foreclosure “victims”, then quickly focuses the attention on Easton and polarizes his target.  He proceeds to play a guilt by association game to tie her husband to Bank of America through Business Roundtable.  You can read my post from yesterday about that here.
• Then came Arthur Delaney’s piece from the Huffington Post, with the headline: “Nina Easton, Fortune Columnist, Compares Bank Protesters To ‘God Hates Fags’ Group.”  He ends his piece with a link to an open letter to Easton penned by Al Marshall, SEIU Local 1021 shop steward in Oakland, CA.  Marshall begins his letter by mentioning that he flew out to DC for the protest  from CA because “Wall Street caused” his wife to lose her job, and then him and his wife to lose their house.  (I’d like to know how he could possibly afford those plane tickets, in that case).  The whole tenor of the post is undoubtedly less jovial than his prior day’s, when he gleefully bragged about the whole event.
• And then, the much anticipated and expected Media Matters post: “Attacking SEIU, Nina Easton fails to disclose husband’s ties to Bank of America“.

Of all of the responses, not a single one of the posts actually addresses any of the issues. None will account for the fact that the protesters were on the private property of a private citizen, though Vandeventer tries to rationalize their actions as acceptable because the police supposedly followed the crowd to the location.  Then, he paints the picture that Baer is lurking in the crowd trying to blend in; rather, the man was trying to get to his front door without creating a scene so that he could get to his frightened son inside as quickly as possible.

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SEIU Storms Private Residence, Terrorizes Teenage Son of Bank of America Exec

by Liberty Chick

UPDATE: Video embedding and comments have since been disabled on YouTube

By now, you’ve probably seen the mob-scene that developed on the front lawn of the private residence of Greg Baer, deputy general counsel for corporate law at Bank of America.  This was planned for some time by the SEIU as part of a larger national event, their Showdown on K Street, which was shared with National People’s Action and thousands of other activists from MoveOn.org and other left-wing groups.

Prior to the main event on K Street in Washington DC, SEIU and company made a little pit stop.  According to Fortune magazine Washington editor Nina Easton, 14 busloads of riled up protesters unloaded on Baer’s private property and stormed up to his doorstep, while his teenage son was home alone.  Easton is a neighbor of Baer’s and had called to check on her neighbor’s son when she heard and saw all the commotion outside. Easton writes,

“Waving signs denouncing bank “greed,” hordes of invaders poured out of 14 school buses, up Baer’s steps, and onto his front porch. As bullhorns rattled with stories of debtor calls and foreclosed homes, Baer’s teenage son Jack — alone in the house — locked himself in the bathroom. “When are they going to leave?” Jack pleaded when I called to check on him.

Baer, on his way home from a Little League game, parked his car around the corner, called the police, and made a quick calculation to leave his younger son behind while he tried to rescue his increasingly distressed teen. He made his way through a din of barked demands and insults from the activists who proudly “outed” him, and slipped through his front door.

“Excuse me,” Baer told his accusers, “I need to get into the house. I have a child who is alone in there and frightened.”

Imagine what you would have done if your child were inside that house and that mob was on your front lawn as you tried to reach him.

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Menendez NJ Recall Update: The Tea Party Goes to Court

by Liberty Chick on BigGovernment.com

It’s Not About the Recall, It’s About the First Amendment

Review of case briefs, case law research, and consultation with a number of attorneys, judges, and legal professionals contributed to the writing of this article.

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UPDATE: Oral argument in Committee to Recall Robert Menendez v. Nina Wells, Secretary of State et al. has been rescheduled for Tuesday, March 2 at 10:30 a.m. in the Appellate Courtroom on the 5th floor of the Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex, 25 Market St., Trenton.  (Due to the snow in NJ)

View announcement at NJ Courts website

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Tea Party activists might be smarter than some would like to think.  And depending upon the outcome of a court case later this month, they might also play a role in setting legal precedent.

When New Jersey state election officials denied their submission to initiate a recall effort against U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, calling it unconstitutional, a grass-roots recall committee’s constitutional instincts kicked into full gear.  Attorneys for the committee, themselves Tea Party activists, filed to appeal the agency decision and began writing their supporting brief.

Meanwhile, seemingly everyone was now weighing in as a legal expert.  Some insist the decision is simple:  NJ has no constitutional authority to recall a US Senator; despite what its state constitution says, that authority is reserved for the federal government alone.  For weeks now, legal scholars, political pundits and the media have been chattering online about the case, now before the Appellate Division in the Superior Court of New Jersey, some treating it more like a sideshow and an outlet to take pot shots at Tea Partiers than a legitimate court proceeding with real constitutional significance.

But Dan Silberstein and Richard Luzzi, attorneys for the Committee to Recall Robert Menendez, a committee initiated by members of the Sussex County Tea Party, see this case in an entirely different light.  They insist this case is not about whether a recall order from the state is judicially enforceable against a United States Senator, rather, it’s all about protecting the first amendment right to free speech. And they are taking the matter very seriously.  Based upon recent developments in the case, apparently so are several others, including some high profile legal experts and the courts.

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NJ Groups, Sussex County Tea Party Committee Announce Campaign to Recall Senator Robert Menendez

Updates, Additional Press Releases and Court Documents

December 23, 2009, SUSSEX COUNTY, NEW JERSEY — A “Committee to Recall U.S. Senator Robert Menendez,” sponsored by the Sussex County Tea Party, has announced plans to launch an effort to recall Senator Robert Menendez from his position in office. Helping to lead the charge is New Jersey Tea Parties United, the state’s grass-roots coalition of county and regional Tea Party groups representing several thousand members in support of fiscal responsibility, individual liberty and limited government.

The Committee filed a formal Notice of Intention to Recall with the Secretary of State’s office on September 25, 2009.  While the office of the Secretary of State acknowledged receipt of the Committee’s  Notice of Intention to Recall in a letter dated October 5, 2009, it has since provided no further communication.  NJ state law requires that administrators respond either with an approval or with a notice of non-compliance stating the reasons within three business days of receiving the Notice, which was October 4, 2009. Since no response had been received, on November 25, 2009, the Committee filed a civil complaint in the Essex County Superior Court of New Jersey against Nina Mitchell Wells, Secretary of State and Robert F. Giles, Director of the Division of Elections, demanding that the defendants be ordered to immediately and forthwith comply with state law by issuing a response to the Committee’s Notice of Intention.  To date, the Secretary of State has ignored the Notice and the Complaint in violation of state law, and the Committee is awaiting a decision from the court.  For up to date information, go to:  njrecallnow.blogspot.com , www.defendingamericanfreedom.com, or www.njteapartiesunited.org.

Once the notice is approved by the state or by court order, the Committee to Recall, along with NJ Tea Parties United will spearhead a large coordinated petition drive to collect signatures in support of a special recall election. NJ state law requires a minimum number of signatures equivalent to at least 25% of the prior general election’s registered voters in order to grant a special recall election.

Appointed to a special one-year term by Governor Jon Corzine in November 2005, Senator Robert Menendez was subsequently elected in 2006 during the mid-term election and has served in the US Senate for just over four years as a Democrat representing New Jersey.  His term isn’t scheduled to end until January 2013. The Recall Committee and New Jersey Tea Parties United believe that Senator Menendez has sided with rigidly partisan politicians in his repeated votes for cloture on a variety of key bills, stifling public debate in the Senate and denying New Jersey citizens transparency.  For example, the Senator voted down an amendment that would have prevented Medicare from being raided for new entitlements^[1], and another that would have limited the government’s control over the health care of American families^[2]. During this difficult financial period when Americans are cutting their own budgets and trying to save every penny, Senator Menendez voted down proposals to remove from spending bills a number of extravagant, excessive multi-million dollar projects that offered little or no short-term economic benefits^[3]. When an amendment was proposed to transfer some of the country’s funding for the United Nations contributions to help offset the costs of providing assistance to family caregivers of our disabled veterans, he voted against it^[4].  And in one case, Senator Menendez voted against allowing each member of Congress and the Secretary of Defense to simply review the allocation of certain taxpayer funds^[5].

One NJ Tea Party member put it this way,

“When NJ voters came out to the polls in November of 2008, they voted for the transparency and accountability that was promised.  Rather than believe his own constituents who have desperately been trying to convey their wishes to him on health care reform without a government run option, he chooses to dismiss us, making public statements on the senate floor that our concerns are all nothing more than the greedy insurance companies lobbying to protect themselves.”

It is statements like this that have convinced the Committee, NJ Tea Parties United,  and other tea party members that Senator Menendez is one of many elitists in government that are more concerned with promoting their own careers than doing what is right for the American people. Those spearheading this effort hope that this will be the first recall of many throughout the nation and that the Constitutional government of the United States can be restored to the American people, to whom it belongs.

[1] Vote 368: H R 3590: Gregg Amdt. No. 2942,  [2] Vote 360: H R 3590: Thune Amdt. No. 2901,   [3] http://www.votesmart.org/speech_detail.php?sc_id=495114&keyword=&phrase=&contain= ,   [4] Vote 310: H R 3326; Vote 285: H R 3288; Vote 284: H R 3288; Vote 283: H R 3288 ,   [5] Vote 310: H R 3326: Coburn Amdt. No. 2565

Sussex County Tea Party contact:

RoseAnn Salanitri, Founder (Branchville, NJ)

Phone: (973)948-8553, Email: roseann216@gmail.com

Alternate Contact:

Tim Adriance, NJ Tea Parties United

Phone: 201-674-8031, Email: tim@njteapartycoalition.org

Legal Contact:

Dan Silberstein, Esq.

Phone: (732) 388-8600, Email: dsilberstein@dpspc.com

NOTE FOR MEDIA:  Sussex County Tea Party is leading the recall initiative. The Sussex group is a member of the statewide tea party coalition, NJ Tea Parties United (NJTPU), which is supporting the Sussex County Tea Party in its efforts.  NJTPU member groups are listed below for reference.

NJTPU Member Groups/Websites:

Atlantic/Cape May Counties Tea Party
http://www.teapartypatriotsofsouthernnj.com

Bergen County Tea Party
http://www.njteapartycoalition.org

Monmouth/Ocean County Tea Party
http://www.weseethroughu.com

Morris County – The Morristown Tea Party
https://themorristownteaparty.org

Passaic County – NNJ Tea Party
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=172402990061

Sussex County Tea Party
http://www.defendingamericanfreedom.com

Union County – Summit Tea Party
http://www.njcitizensforliberty.com

Warren County  – Flemington Tea Party
http://flemingtonteaparty.blogspot.com

Updates, Additional Press Releases and Court Documents

Update:  Secretary of State Response Received 1/11/2010, see press release below dated 1/15

Press Release, 1/15/2010: Determination on Menendez Recall Cites NJ Constitution and Uniform Recall Election Law as Unconstitutional; Judge May Consider Appeal

Court Document:  Civil Suit (PDF) 12/2/2009  [Civil suit and Motion for Summary Judgment previously scheduled for Feb. 5th, 2010 now moot due to Secretary of State decision of January 11th)

Court Document: Judge’s order (PDF) 1/14/2010  on application to file an emergent motion

Related Articles:

Essex County Conservative Examiner/Terry Hurlbut:  Senator Menendez targeted for recall

Essex County Conservative Examiner/Terry Hurlbut:  Summary judgment asked in Menendez recall effort

PolitickerNJ:  Tea Party Group Wants to recall Menendez

Is New Jersey’s State Constitution Unconstitutional? Campaign to Recall Senator Menendez Turns Into Battle of the Constitutions

by Liberty Chick on BigGovernment.com

New Jersey’s State Constitution is unconstitutional.  That’s apparently what one New Jersey election official seems to think.

A committee seeking approval from the state to petition registered voters on whether to move forward with a special election to recall US Senator Robert Menendez was denied that request, in a letter on January 11^th which stated that the US Constitution does not provide for such a proceeding.

But in 1993, the people of New Jersey overwhelmingly voted to reserve for themselves “the power to recall, after at least one year of service, any elected official in this State or representing this State in the United States Congress” (emphasis added), and in 1995 made this amendment to their state constitution under Article I, 2b.

This has left many New Jersey voters wondering why Secretary of State Nina Mitchell Wells, a member of the Executive Branch, not the Judicial Branch, would take it upon herself and her position to declare the NJ state Constitution unconstitutional.  After reviewing the committee’s preliminary appeal statement, a judge in the Superior Court of NJ Appellate Division has just issued an order allowing a motion to accelerate the appeal.

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A Lesson of Hypocrisy and Hitler

Today, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs pulled one of his usual Rules for Radicals tactics and once again tried to paint peaceful protestors of the government-run health care proposal as disturbed, hateful, unpatriotic citizens.  Comically, he then went on to answer a question:

“I will continue to say what I’ve said before. You hear in this debate, you hear analogies, you hear references to, you see pictures about and depictions of individuals that are truly stunning, and you hear it all the time. People — imagine five years ago somebody comparing health care reform to 9/11. Imagine just a few years ago had somebody walked around with images of Hitler. Hopefully we can get back to a discussion about the issues that are important in this country that we can do so without being personally disagreeable and set up comparisons to things that were so insidious in our history that anybody in any profession or walk of life would be well advised to compare nothing to those atrocities.”

Hat Tip to http://www.black-and-right.com for finding this one

You’re kidding, right?  Where have this man and his Chicago henchmen been for the last eight years?  No, they weren’t oblivious to all the Bush Hitler analogies.  Because it’s people from their own party and their labor unions and their community organizing groups and all their little progressive bloggers that were behind all those analogies.  Hey, I’m all for leaving those images for the atrocities that they truly represent.  That’s the respectful thing to do.  So, why won’t the left leave it out of every one of their discussions then?

For those on the left who continue to dramatize these tea party protesters as “terrifying” and “frightening” extremists, for those who insist that there has never been such disrespect for a president of the US, don’t be ridiculous.  The imagery and the words of hate from the angry left are far more insidious than anything the tea party folks could ever muster up.  And the American people are not so stupid to believe a statement like yours Mr. Gibbs.  I mean, it was only less than a year ago when we were still enduring eight years’ worth of these.  Just imagine if these had been Obama’s name or photos used in the signs and slogans…ah, but you and your friends and the lamestream media were silent about it when it wasn’t Obama – in fact, they even publicly praised such signs:

http://www.actupny.org/reports/bushwacked.html

 

Code Pink Demonstration in Support of Shoe Throwing Journalist, Dec 2008

Hollywood Protest, March 2003

Hollywood Protest, March 2003

Bush Protestor

Bush Protestor

 

March 2003, San Francisco, http://www.ccmep.org/2002_articles/Iraq/sanfran032203-2.jpg

2004 protest

Jan 2006 Protest, Gay Liberation Network

Demonstrators against George W. Bush in New York City, March 2003

Bush Protests, Inauguration Day 2005

Bush Protest Sign

Bush Protest Sign. (I mean, seriously...can you imagine if "Bush" were replaced with "Obama"? The outrage would go on for months.)

 

Some Bush Protestors. Now THIS is disturbing, not little old ladies holding American flags.

 

Bush Protest Sign

A montage of Bush bumper stickers, click for hat tip to contributor's site

Pre-Election Tea Party November 1st in Jackson, NJ

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You heard us on Tax Day, then on Independence Day, and on Labor Day.  On September 12^th, you heard us in Washington D.C. Now you’ll hear us on Sunday, November 1^st just in time for Election Day!

The Southern Monmouth County/Northern Ocean County Tea Party, a grass-roots non-partisan community group and member of NJ Tea Parties United, invites you to join us for a Pre-Election Tea Party from 12 Noon to 3pm at John F. Johnson Jr. Memorial Park (Johnson Park) on Kierych Memorial Drive in Jackson, NJ.  This is a non-partisan event and will feature informational speakers on a variety of topics, as well as a live band, activities and a voter registration drive.

Americans today are tightening budgets and saving every penny, while government continues on a spending spree.  New Jersey residents are saddled with double-digit deficits and some of the highest taxes in the nation. And the number of jobless in NJ is at its highest ever since 1977.  It’s time to stand up and put principles above party.  Come to the tea party and meet other citizens who share in your same concerns.  Hear from Constitutional speakers, sound fiscal policy advocates, medical doctors, and citizen patriots. Be informed before you vote!

Event Details:

WHO:

The Southern Monmouth County/Northern Ocean County Tea Party

WHAT:

Pre-Election Tea Party |  Activities will feature speakers, live music and a voter registration drive.
This is a non-partisan event, all party affiliations are welcome to attend.  If you are concerned about government growth and spending, then this is the place for you!

WHEN:

Sunday, November 1^st from 12 Noon to 3pm

WHERE:

John F. Johnson Jr. Memorial Park (Johnson Park), Kierych Memorial Drive, Jackson, NJ.

View map of location.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Contact wesee51@yahoo.com.

Jackson has had some of the largest turnouts at tea party events, and the Southern Monmouth County/Northern Ocean County Tea Party is one of the most active tea party groups in the state!  Visit the  Southern Monmouth County/Northern Ocean County Tea Party website to learn more!

Download the Pre-Election Tea Party flyer (PDF)

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Speakers & Activities:

Tabitha Hale, Host of Raisin Hale‘ from Take That! Radio Productions, proprietor of Pink Elephant Pundit, and Director of New Media for Smart Girl Politics.  Most recently just joined as an activist with FreedomWorks.

Steve Lonegan, Former Bogota mayor & former NJ gubernatorial candidate; Director of Americans for Prosperity NJ chapter.

Reverend Dr. Hugh MacKenzie, Constitutional Speaker, teacher of “The 5000 Year Leap”.  Join us on Mondays at 7:00pm in November for A Discussion Group on the Federal Constitution with Dr. MacKenzie.

Diana Reimer, Tea Party Patriots National Leadership Council & PA State Coordinator. Philadelphia Tea Party Patriots Organizer. View video of Diana speaking at the 912 March on Washington this past September.

Bill Haney, 912 Project Burlington County organizer, and one of several parents’ rights advocates organizing actions against the B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, NJ over the controversial video that exposes the school’s inappropriate use of politics (and religion) in the classroom. The school produced a performance of elementary school students singing a song that includes chants of “Mmmmm. Mmmmm. Mmmmm. Barack Hussein Obama” and reuse of a verse from the song “Jesus Loves the Little Children” to liken Obama to “Jesus”.

Fredy Lowe, also one of several parents’ rights advocates organizing actions against the B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, NJ over the controversial video that exposes the school’s inappropriate use of politics (and religion) in the classroom.

“Manly Rash”, prominent conservative (and very witty) blogger and proprietor of Manly’s Republic.  In his full Continental Army garb, “Colonel” Manly Rash is also a living reminder of the hard battles fought by our founding fathers to give us the liberty and freedom that we still fight to protect today.

Strictly 60’s Band, a band from NJ dedicated to preserving the music of the 60’s, will perform live music for the event.

Hi Caliber, rap artist with conservative views (also known as “Mr. Conservative”), will perform live at the event as well.  You may have seen him perform at the 912 March on Washington.  Or, you can check him out here in his performance of Patriotic People in “Tea Party: the Documentary Film“.

Voter Registration Drive, Smart Girl Politics will be onsite conducting a voter registration drive, in commemoration of Susan B Anthony registering to vote. At a time when women did not have the right to vote, Susan B Anthony voted in the Presidential election on November 5, 1872 and was arrested four days later.  She was found guilty on June 18th, 1873 of casting an illegal ballot.  It wasn’t until August of 1920 that women were finally granted the right to vote with the passage of the 19^th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Why the tea parties?

View the group’s mission statement and core principles below to understand the concerns and the purpose of our organization.  And visit the Southern Monmouth County/Northern Ocean County Tea Party website to learn more about this group.

Mission:

The New Jersey Tea Parties United exists to protect our liberties by restoring and defending the principles within our foundational documents, and by promoting unity with other Patriots throughout New Jersey and the United States.

Core Principles:

We the New Jersey Tea Parties United, a coalition of public citizens’ groups throughout the State of New Jersey, are dedicated to supporting the principles within our foundational documents and public policy that adheres to those principles, including but not limited to the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness that are expressed in the forms of personal responsibility, individual liberty, limited government and free markets.  Insofar as all Americans must live within their financial means, so must our government and we further believe that those means must not exceed the bounds enumerated within our Constitution.

The Southern Monmouth County/Northern Ocean County Tea Party website

NJ Tea Parties United website