Friends--
The below youtube contains video of billboards that you are going to start seeing around the area.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi_LzFh0UGw
You know that I am involved with tea party. "Tea Party" is a loosely organized movement of millions across the nation. The people in this movement are ordinary citizens. Whatever we do and wherever we go is funded by the people in the movement, which means it comes from our own pockets. There is no political, Democrat, or Republican organization that gives us money EVER to do what we do. If we travel, we pay for it. If we make signs we pay for it. If we rent a venue for a rally or other kind of event, we pay for it. If the purchase of insurance is required when we have an event, we pay for it. From our own hard earned money.
There are people in our area who have been involved in Florida politics for years. They were kicked out of the Republican Party last year for unscrupulous activities. They are well connected to sources of money, and have money themselves. These people have established and registered an offiicial political party. This is known as a "third party", because it is neither Democrat or Republican and it is newly in existence.
A "third party" may be a good answer to the resentment folks have toward the establishment parties, Democrat or Republican. But it is not a good answer at this time because the sad set we have in government today does not leave any room for the risk of experiment as to whether or not a third party can win. Right now, we believe that righteous CONSERVATIVE candidates can only be found on the Republican ticket. Understanding that the Republican Party has lost its way over the last 70 years, there are still a handful of Republicans sitting in office right now who are Conservative, and there are newcomers running for office who are Conservative, and share our values and goal of limited government, lower taxes, free market economy, individual responsibility, adherence to the US Constitution, and robust national security.
The founders of this third party are Doug Guetzloe and his attorney Fred O'Neal. Doug Guetzloe is well known in the area and he is not respected or liked. Dont take my word for it. Search Guetzloe on the internet. This third party is running candidates for various local, state, AND national spots in government. They have named their party, "Florida TEA Party".
They have hijacked the good name and reputation of the tea party movement to elevate their own intent and popularity.
I am here to tell you that this third party IS NOT in connected to the tea party movement in any way and we do not support it; mainly because all it will do is FOOL the uninformed, at the ballot, into thinking that they are part of tea party movement. Those that are uninformed will vote for the third party candidates thinking they are part of the movement, those that ARE informed will vote for the Republican Conservative candidates -- the danger here is that this will split the CONSERVATIVE vote and hand the election over to socialist Democrat candidates -- the most glaring repulsive win would go to incumbent District 8 US Congressman Democrat Alan Grayson.
Aside from talking down this third party for the reasons I mentioned above, we had no relevant grounds to discredit them publicly and officially, until it was discoverd that Alan Grayson is donating money to this third party thru a dummy corporation connected to Doug Guetzloe. This is Graysons' contribution to helping along a split of the Conservative vote, thus ushering in his win in November.
Here is the original article from local journalist Tony Pipitone, which exposes this financial connection.
http://www.clickorlando.com/politics/23982225/detail.html
We, your local tea party movement, had a press conference on June 24th in which we called for the candidates of the Florida TEA Party to renounce the party in light of the dirty dealings described in the above article. The third party found out about our press conference and they infiltrated it. Below is the full video of our press conference. The speaker is Jason Hoyt, my friend and fellow tea party activist. The guy to his left holding the FEDEX envelope and heckling and interrupting our press conference is Doug Guetzloe.
Please view our press conference below which reiterates what I wrote above, and more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6ldSOhH98E
Below is one video of the harassment, insults, and lies that we endured from these low lives prior to the press conference.
Notice the punk from Florida TEA Party attempting to block the reporter Tony Pipitone.
http://qik.com/myamericanism
Here is a blog that contains more about what I wrote above, and the middle video in this page shows more of the harrassment, insults, and lies that we endured from these low lives prior to the press conference.
http://teapartywire.com/faketeaparty/blog/
Thank you for taking the time, (and it will take a bit of your time) to review the contents of this message. I just spent over one hour putting it together. This is one of the ways we get the word out, since we havent got the kind of funding it takes to run ads and post billboards. Please let your friends know that 'Florida TEA Party" is not endorsed, part of, supported, or approved by the tea party movement
Unite or Die-
Barbara
Only the most deluded voters today would even consider the possibility of voting for a Republican or a Democrat in ANY race. The Democratic and Republican parties are virtually at war with the people of the United States and the constitution of our country. The two-party state and duopoly system of government stands against everything that is good in the American political tradition. The ruling parties and political class cannot be distinguished from a corporatist oligarchy. The question before voters today is the following: do you want to reproduce a government ruled by the current criminal political class, or do you want something better? If you want something better, you have to stop throwing your votes away in support of Republicans and Democrats. Freedom and independence today begins with freedom and independence from the Democratic and Republican political machines.
ReplyDeleteThe original tea party of 1773 was part of a radical movement toward independence. For any self-described tea party activist today to support anyone other than third party and independent alternatives to the ruling parties would be akin to supporting the King and the British Parliament during the American revolution. Those folks were denounced as loyalists by the patriots of the American revolution. The question we must ask ourselves: Are you a party loyalist or are you an American patriot?
@D.Eris Thank you for comments, intelligent discourse is what makes this country great. However, I disagree with you premise. You can take you approach of throwing away what you have, or follow what I espouse, which is to reform that which is wrong, as you described, the existing parties (and yes BOTh require reform). However, the article by Barbara is describing a situation where a renegade group is trying to hijack the hard earned goodwill and public recognition of another group of patriots, will little hope of accomplishing much, other than splitting the vote to punish one party. It seems that they are being supported in this endeavour by the other party.
ReplyDelete"reform that which is wrong"
ReplyDeleteThis strategy of reform, or infiltration, of the major parties is doomed to failure. Removing Democrats and replacing them with Republicans, and vice versa, is a waste of resources as it will accomplish NOTHING, even if it is successful. The Democratic and Republican parties are on the same side, and they are lined up against the rest of US. The Democratic-Republican two-party state is the political vehicle for the entrenched political elite in their war on the people of the United States. To support Democrats or Republicans is to do nothing but provide the reactionary corporatists in the party machines with the political cover to continue their efforts to expand the power and scope of the state while eroding rights, liberties and the rule of law.
We should be most concerned about the hijacking of the tea party movement by the Republican Party. The original tea party in 1773 was part of a radical movement toward political independence. Becoming nothing more than an interest group for the Republican party will ensure that today's tea party groups remain nothing more than fronts for entrenched elites and corrupt incumbents. If you are not independent, you are codependent.