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Tea Party Manatee Presents:
Florida House of Representatives Candidate Forum 

Who's Running our House?

In an effort to educate our community so we can vote responsibly in the upcoming election for Florida House of Representatives, Tea Party Manatee is hosting a forum where you can meet the candidates.  

This is a free event open to the public.

Come Join Us!
When:
Saturday, August 8th, 2010 Time: 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm Where: The Harbor Vista Hotel and Marina (formerly the Holiday Inn) at 7150 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34243.
You can contact the venue at 941-306-5893 .

Confirmed attendees are:

From District 67:
JJ Guccione
Z.J. Hafeez
Bob McCann
Greg Steube
John Studebaker
From District 68:
Jim Boyd
Dave Miner
From District 69:
Keith Fitzgerald
Ray Pilon

Note: At this time no one from District 55 has accepted our invitation.

The Forum will be divided into several segments. To begin, each candidate will have an opportunity to make a brief opening statement.  Next, the candidates will answer core value questions posed by our moderator.

In the final "lightning round" segment, the candidates will answer questions on the ballot initiatives, indicating in a fast response format how they will vote on the initiatives and why.  

Matt Bruce hosts
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Our moderator is Matt Bruce, host of the nationally syndicated "The Captain's America" Radio Show, a three hour radio show heard on 110 Radio Stations across America.

 

  


Meet the candidates from other political races:
Mike McCalister, candidate for Governor of Florida, will be attending to meet and greet everyone.

In Addition, there will be booths for the candidates of all the political races for the purpose of gathering information and meeting these candidates personally. These candidates need your support and help! Confirmed for attendance are:  

  • Tim Norwood
  • Robin Disabatino
  • Julie B. Aranibar
  • Albert G. Yusko
  • Karen Carpenter
  • Don Baldauf

(Candidates: Contact us at info@teapartymanatee.org to reserve your own booth)

    Tea Party Manatee's goal is to educate the community about the issues and what the candidates plan to do if elected. The Tea Party Manatee mission is to defend our Constitution, promote Limited Government and Fiscal Responsibility and keep God in our Country.

    This is sure to be a great event with an enthusiastic crowd! We look forward to seeing you there!


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    Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill STatus Report...

    Situation Report # 91...

    Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 1200 hrs EDT

    Charlie Crist

    Governor

    David Halstead

    State Coordinating Officer

    Weather Summary:

    Winds over Florida waters are expected to be out of the northwest in the morning, shifting out of a general west direction in the afternoon from Wednesday through Friday. Winds should be 15 knots or less within 60 miles of the coastline each day, with waves less than 3 feet. Mostly dry conditions are expected for much of the Panhandle today, though a few isolated afternoon showers will be possible over eastern areas. Rain chances will begin to increase again on Thursday and Friday to around 30-40% each day through the weekend. Heat indices will be near 100-105 degrees along the shoreline through the next several days, though some isolated areas may reach as high as 108. Also, significant tropical activity is not expected through Thursday...

    Florida beaches are open.

    Currently Deepwater Horizon is not discharging any oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Preparations for the static kill will resume once equipment is reconnected. Unified Area Command continues with a comprehensive oil well intervention and spill

    response planning following the April 22 sinking of the Transocean Deepwater Horizon drilling rig 130 miles southeast of New Orleans...

    This event has been designated a Spill of National Significance.

    More than 24,800 personnel are working the on and offshore response.

    Oil-water mix recovered: nearly 34.7 million gallons.

    Response vessels available: more than 4,200

    Response aircraft available: 114

    Dispersant: more than 1.84 million gallons deployed.

    There is no planned use of dispersants in Florida waters.

    Florida Specific:

    All supplemental Tier 3 boom is being removed in the Northwest Florida counties.

    Tar balls and light sheen continue to be reported in Northwest Florida.

    Although sporadic sightings of tar balls may continue, Florida’s shoreline is not expected to receive additional impacts over the next 72 hours...

    Five state-leased skimmers remain on standby in Northwest Florida to protect sensitive inland water bodies. These skimmers are operating out of Escambia, Okaloosa, Bay, Gulf and Franklin Counties...

    Oil Containment Boom (in feet) total: 42,461 deployed in Florida. Tier 1 & Tier 2: 389,600 /Tier 3: 432,061. In accordance with established plans, protective booming, staging, and boom maintenance is being conducted along the coast from Escambia to Franklin. 166 vessels are deployed in Florida for the Vessels of Opportunity program. 710 Qualified Community Responders are working in the Florida Panhandle today...

    Federal Fishery closure, west of Cape San Blas to state line. 26,388 sq mi of southeast portion has been reopened. (see NOAA FB10-060)...

    A portion of coastal state waters offshore of Escambia County is closed to the harvest of saltwater fish, crabs and shrimp...

    The NOAA Oil Spill Trajectory shows the oil plume 60 miles from Pensacola, and 140 miles from Panama City. While NOAA oil trajectories forecast oil patches to remain well south and west of Florida, with no direct oil impacts through at least Friday, scattered tarball fields already nearshore may continue to be carried onshore along the Panhandle coast. Winds and currents may also push pockets of light sheen or tarmats eastward and the uncertainty line for possible oil extends east to around 25 miles south of Perdido Key by Friday. Offshore, no oil has been observed within or moving towards Eddy Franklin for over 4 weeks and there is no clear path for oil to enter the Florida Straits...

    In addition to $100,000 for Volunteer Florida to maintain a volunteer registration database, BP has issued over $75 million in grants to Florida for booming, tourism advertising, and state preparedness and response efforts. An additional $500,000 has been issued by BP to fund innovative technology solutions for Okaloosa County...

    BP claims in Florida total 34,431 with approximately $ 47,758,093.31 paid.

    Florida Information Lines:

    The Florida Oil Spill Information Line (FOSIL) is available from 8am-6pm EDT daily.

    o English - (888) 337-3569 / TDD – (800) 955-8771 / Voice – (800) 955-8770 /

    Spanish – (877) 955-8773 / Haitian Creole – (877) 955-8707

    For general health/exposures information questions related to the oil spill, contact the Florida Poison Control Center at (800) 222-1222...

    Two public hotline numbers for oil spill investigation and cleanup:

    o Impacted Wildlife: (866) 557-1401

    o Oiled Shoreline: (877) 2-SAVE-FL or #DEP for cellular devices

    The Florida Department of State has established a hotline for archeological, historical preservation, and tribal lands that may be impacted by the Deepwater Horizon incident: (850) 245-6530...

    To confirm legitimate charities and determine if an organization is registered with the state, call Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) (800) 435-7352 or www.800helpfla.com ...

    Information Websites:

    Volunteer registration: www.VolunteerFlorida.org  and click “Register to Help”

    Health advisories: http://www.dep.state.fl.us/deepwaterhorizon/health.htm

    State sampling data: www.nrdata.org

    GATOR web mapping application: http://map.floridadisaster.org/gator/

    Recovery related jobs: http://FloridaGulfRecoveryJobs.com/

    NOAA GeoPlatform, response management application:

    http://www.geoplatform.gov/gulfresponse/

    State Actions:

    State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC) is at a Level 1 (Full), operating from 0700 to 1800 EDT, with Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) as the lead agency...

    Governor’s Executive Orders 10-99, 10-100, 10-106 and 10-132 declared a state of emergency for identified Florida coastal counties...

    Governor’s Executive Order 10-101 established the Gulf Oil Spill Economic Recovery Task Force, which will facilitate efforts by Florida businesses and industries to recover the loss of commerce and revenues due to the oil spill...

    Governor’s Executive Order 10-169, authorizing property appraisers to provide interim assessments of properties affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster...

    Four Florida branch offices are fully operational in Northwest Florida. These branch offices bring together federal, state and local agencies to streamline response efforts...

    Conducting daily conference calls with county and emergency management partners, the Federal On-Scene Coordinator, and various Unified Commands...

    SERT Personnel - Location Personnel

    Forward-SERT, Mobile Unified Command 15

    Florida Peninsula Command, Miami 6

    St. Petersburg Branch 1

    Area Command in New Orleans, Louisiana 2

    Branch 1 4

    Branch 2 7

    Branch 3 5

    Branch 4 2

    A SERT Toxicological Data Analysis Cell is providing consistent scientific assessments of collected sampling to inform local/state decision making...

    The Agency for Workforce Innovation and Regional Workforce Boards are identifying and filling jobs related to the oil spill: 14,574 positions advertised; 44,903 applicants referred...

    119 Florida National Guard personnel on duty at various duty posts in the Deepwater Horizon area of operations...

    19,733 volunteers have registered to respond to Deepwater Horizon. 25,063 volunteer hours have been worked...

    AmeriCorps, National Civilian Community Corps members are assisting with models for a community-run Citizen Information Station (CIS)...

    Conducting daily reconnaissance flights and shoreline patrol from Escambia to Franklin Counties for impact. Real time reconnaissance reports are being entered into SERT GATOR...

    Currently, Florida's coast has 9 primary decontamination sites and 2 secondary sites for response vessels and 2 that are being operated for commercial vessels. 3 sites for recreational vessel decontamination have been established and 18 additional recreational vessel sites are in negotiations with BP...

    Recovered Oiled Wild Life: 07/27/10

    Recovered

    alive*

    Released

    Died or

    euthanized

    Still in

    Rehab

    Recovered

    Dead

    Total

    Recovered

    Total Dead

    Birds 3 0 0 44 0 3

    Total 181 14 120 163 344 283

    Turtles 4 1 32 0 4

    Total 38 5 2 1 39 2

    See the consolidated wildlife report updated by noon each day:

    http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/doctype/2931/55963

    The Boom Coordination Cell continues to coordinate additional boom requests. The Innovative Technology Cell continues to assess alternative clean-up technologies suggested by the public and stakeholders...

    Emergency Bridge Loan Program, cumulative totals- Applications: 61; Declined: 6; Approved: 55; Amount: $1,355,000.00...

    The Small Business Administration issued an Economic Injury Disaster Loan Declaration for the State of Florida. Outreach Centers are open in 8 counties...

    Total Loan Applications: Issued: 670 Accepted: 218 Declined: 74 Approved: 42

    Loan amount approved: $4,497,200.00 *

    Local States of Emergency...

    Escambia: Expires on 8/6/10

    Santa Rosa: Expires on 7/30/10

    Okaloosa: Concurrent with State

    Walton: Expired

    Bay: Expires on 7/29/10

    Gulf: Expires on 8/3/10

    Franklin: Expires on 8/2/10

    Wakulla: Expires on 8/2/10

    Jefferson: Expires on 7/29/10

    Dixie: Expires on 7/29/10

    Sarasota: Expires on 8/3/10

    County EOC Activations...

    Escambia, Level 3

    Santa Rosa, Level 2 (Partial)

    Okaloosa, Level 2 (Partial)

    Walton, Level 3

    Bay, Level 2 (Partial)

    Gulf, Level 2 (Partial)

    Franklin, Level 3

    Wakulla, Level 2 (Partial)

    Jefferson, Level 3

     
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    Something ALL Sarasota County Residents Should Know...
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    LOCAL 2546
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    740 Commerce Drive,
    Suite 1
    Venice, Florida 34292
    Phone: 941-485-5193
    Fax: 941-488-6134
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    Are you aware that Sarasota County has recently reduced its daily Firefighter staffing on ladder trucks and several Fire Engines from 3 per unit to 2???

    For example, Fire Station#1 located in the Downtown serves our High Rise district including Lido Key. This reduction in emergency services staffing levels creates a significant risk to both the citizens and the Firefighters...

    In April 2010 the US Dept of Commerce released a study that shows that 4 person Firefighting crews perform tasks 30% faster than 2-person crews. This saves lives and greatly reduces property loss and subsequent Insurance costs and claims...

    For too many years Sarasota County subscribed to the minimum staffing levels for Emergency Services. Several years ago that bad practice made a dramatic turn-around with the announcement of an “emergency catch up plan” authored by the Fire Chief and approved by the Board of County Commissioners...

    The plan called for the addition of several new Fire Stations added to areas that were underserved, and an increase in staffing on Fire Engines from two per truck to 3 per truck phased in over 10 years...

    The plan was supported by the Firefighters and welcomed by the community...

    The question remains, “will the County Commission stand by its commitment to the citizens of Sarasota County to achieve safer Firefighting staffing levels on its Fire Trucks?”

    Respectfully,

    Mervin Kennell
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    Donald “D.J.” Seiler
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    Treasurer

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    Business Agent

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    Matt Bruce's Latest Column...

    America Speaking Out Town Hall...



    July 24, 5:30 PM · Matt Bruce - Manatee County Buzz Examiner

    America Speaking Out Town Hall…



    SARASOTA, FL. (NS) –



    Today I was in attendance for something new called “America Speaking Out” at a Town Hall held by FL-13 2 term Congressman Vern Buchanan at the Sarasota County Commission Building in Sarasota, FL.



    This was different because the people present were asked to make any suggestions they had for helping America move forward.



    I was sitting amongst Democrats, Independents, Republicans and others who got their chance and they had plenty to say.



    It’s obvious of the anger and disgust that Americans have right now towards Washington, DC and what’s transpired since Barack Obama and the Democratic Party took control.



    Nobody in attendance had much of anything good to say about where our Country is at right now at this point in history.



    I was keeping track of the topics being discussed and it was a tossup between Earmarks-Entitlements-Pork and Immigration that set the tone for the Town Hall.



    People also spoke about Taxes, Healthcare, the Economy and Jobs, Tort Reform, Government Waste and the massive Federal Deficit and Debt that most present felt could never be paid off in their lifetimes.



    I saw TEA Party Groups from Manatee County, Venice and people I’d seen at TEA Party’s in Lakewood Ranch all present in the room of several hundred people.



    Previously Congressman Buchanan had held 19 Town Hall Meetings where he guided the agenda and questions were allowed to be asked. This time around it was the people who were making suggestions and asking questions.



    Here were some of the ideas offered:



    * Encouraging people to buy “U.S. Savings Bonds,” just like in World War II…
    * Putting our own unemployed American citizens and Veterans back to work first…
    * Putting back the Investment Tax Credit for Small Business so it can grow again…
    * Doing something to stop the $14 Trillion Deficit. Perhaps a 10% cut across the board…
    * Encouraging and starting a “Buy American” program…



    The people present as I mentioned earlier were from all sides of the aisle and different political persuasions but the passion their shared about the concern they all had for the direction they see America going in was obvious.

    From where I was sitting I firmly believe there is going to be a real ‘house cleaning’ in Washington, DC come November 2nd, 2010 when the Mid-Term elections are held across America.



    The people are disgusted and they are mad and they’re not going to take it anymore. I know that sounds like the slogan you’ve heard in the newspaper, radio and tv ads but it’s also the sentiment that was displayed today at the “America Speaking Out” Town Hall held by FL-13 Congressman Vern Buchanan…



    Congressman Buchanan then traveled from the America Speaking Out Town Hall to a TEA Party Manatee Meeting where he was going to participate in their meeting at Mixon Farms in Bradenton...



    Matt Bruce

    Managing Editor News Sarasota.comhttp://www.newssarasota.com

    Manatee County Buzz Contributor

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    Matt Bruce
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    Find out more about Matt:

    Matt is a Vietnam Veteran, retired 25 year Fire-Rescue Captain, a First Responder to the WTC on 9/11/2001, former Town Tax Assessor, the proud father of a son serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and has traveled across America border to border several hundred times. He hosts a syndicated Talk Radio show and write articles which are picked up by numerous sources both on the internet and in print. He is also the host of the Nationally Syndicated "The Captain's AMERICA" and "Troop Talk Radio - Voice of The Troops." He can reached by e-mail: mattbruce@newssarasota.com

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    Punta Gorda TEA Party Goes Major League

     

    Please join us on Saturday October 2, 2010 at the Charlotte County Sports Park for 30 DAYS TO FREEDOM!

    This is a major leap of faith for The Punta Gorda TEA Party. In a recent survey over 80% of you stated you wanted some national speakers.

    We are going to attempt to pack the Charlotte Sports Park Stadium with 7,000 energized TEA Party supporters who want to take their Country back!


    Confirmed Speakers Thus Far:

     

    Matt Bruce, Nationally Syndicated Talk Radio Host, who lit up the crowd back on April 15th will be coming back! His radio show is heard locally weekends on 1580 WCCF and WINK AM & FM along the SW Florida Coast. 
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    Tom Gaitens  Freedom Works FL State Field Rep.
    Robin Stublen  Punta Gorda TEA Party and Founding Member TEA Party Federation
    Local Coordinators from other counties.


    Plus the following confirmed speakers:


    Rev. C.L. Bryant   
    Deneen  Borelli   
    Tom Borelli          
    Brendan Steinhauser  Freedom Works
    Lou Pritchett  
    Murray Goff  

     

    We have also invited FL. Gov. Charlie Crist, FL. State Sen. Paul Dockery, FL. Atty Gen. Bill McCullom, FL. CFO Alix Sink, U.S. Sen. George LeMieux, Cong. Connie Mack, Cong. Vern Buchanan, Candidate Allen West and former FL. House Speaker and current GOP U.S. Sen. Candidate Marco Rubio to attend and speak at this event.

    We do not need to tell you that in order to make this a success we need your help and financial support. The Sports Park has a few rules that will prevent us from raising money while at the event. The first is we cannot have a 50/50 raffle. Also, we will be unable to provide water and soda for a donation. All concessions are contracted to the minor league team.

    We need your help now more than ever. If you have a business please contact Robin about a corporate sponsorship or donation. Individuals can donate via our secure online donation and follow the simple directions below. If money is a problem please try to give $10 per month until the end of the year.

    Vendor tables and tables for candidates will be available for a fee.

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    July 3rd TEA Party
    Our July 3rd Tea Party will begin at 5:00pm at Gilchrist Park and will be an open mic TEA Party. We have invited all of ourlocal candidates to rent table space in order to provide you with information prior to the August primary. They will be allowed five minutes to speak. We understand that many of you in the past have not wanted to hear from politicians and have respected those wishes. However, we feel that this may be the only time you get to see those running for local office in person and that is important.
     
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    Fellow TEA Party Patriots!

                                      

    On all April 15th, 2010 Tea Party Attendees numbering 2,000 showed up at Laishley Marina Park in Punta Gorda, FL!

    Special thanks to Robin Stublen, Ken Lovejoy WCCF Radio, WINK TV and the Print Media for showing up!

    You guys have risen from the rubble made by Hurricane Charley to rebuild one of the nicest Cities anywhere in America and I'm proud to call ALL of you my Friends!

    Thanks for being so nice to me!

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    “So it is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss. If you only know yourself, but not your opponent, you may win or may lose. If you know neither yourself nor your enemy, you will always endanger yourself.” – Sun Tzu, 6th Century, BC.

    One way to tell how effective the Tea Party movement has been is to gauge the severity of the attacks on the movement by its detractors. It is fair and logical to deduce that the more severe the attacks, the more threatened the attackers feel. Judging from the most recent attacks on the Tea Party movement – and because the Progressives and Liberal Democrats are completely invested in “feelings” instead of facts – those opposed to limited government and the constitutional rule of law are feeling quite threatened.

    Anyone paying attention to the mainstream news media has noticed a recent uptick in the number of news stories about the Tea Party movement. While media outlets such as FOX News, The Washington Times, BigGovernment.com, NewsMax.com and talk radio portray the Tea Party movement in a favorable light, the “alphabet media,” its cable brethren and the Progressive blogs are painting the movement as having emanated from the fringe; a group consisting of a bevy of Timothy McVeigh’s on steroids. Truth be told, this isn’t because they are grossly ideological in their reporting – although that lends to the zealousness of their actions – as much as it is a coordinated tactic to neuter the power of the Tea Party movement. The Progressive’s attacks on the Tea Party movement are straight from Rules for Radicals; they are a textbook Saul Alinsky play...and they are only going to get more vicious as the 2010 and 2012 elections approach.

    To give but a brief overview of who Saul Alinsky was, DiscoverTheNetworks.org describes him thusly:

    “Born to Russian-Jewish parents in Chicago in 1909, Saul Alinsky was a Communist/Marxist fellow-traveler who helped establish the dual political tactics of confrontation and infiltration that characterized the 1960s and have remained central to all subsequent revolutionary movements in the United States. He never joined the Communist Party but instead became an avatar of the post-modern left.

    “Though Alinsky is rightfully understood to have been a leftist, his legacy is more methodological than ideological. He identified a set of very specific rules that ordinary citizens could follow, and tactics that ordinary citizens could employ, as a means of gaining public power. His motto was, ‘The most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired results.’”

    The culmination of Alinsky’s life work comes to us in the form of his book, Rules for Radicals. It is the quintessential handbook for all Progressives and especially for Progressives in politics, advocacy and in government. Hillary Clinton chose to write about Saul Alinsky for her senior thesis at Wellesley College. And Alinsky’s own son, L.David Alinsky, said this of Barack Obama after the 2008 Democratic National Convention:

    “Barack Obama’s training in Chicago by the great community organizers is showing its effectiveness...It is an amazingly powerful format, and the method of my late father always works to get the message out and get the supporters on board. When executed meticulously and thoughtfully, it is a powerful strategy for initiating change and making it really happen. Obama learned his lesson well.

    “I am proud to see that my father’s model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday.”

    And so it should come as no surprise that with Progressives in control of the Executive and Legislative Branches of our federal government – and in control of the mainstream media apparatus – we are seeing Alinsky tactics employed against any force that would oppose the Progressive agenda or its totalitarian ideology.

    It is for this reason that we must learn and understand the Alinsky model and methods. A great example of how the Progressives use the Alinsky model to their benefit can be seen in how they are handling the Tea Party movement.

    In chapter seven of Rules for Radicals, titled Tactics, Alinsky writes:

    “Tactics are those conscious deliberate acts by which human beings live with each other and deal with the world around them...Here our concern is with the tactic of taking; how the ‘Have-Nots’ can take power away from the ‘Haves.’”

    Alinsky enumerates 13 “rules” here:

    1. Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.
    2. Never go outside the expertise of your people.
    3. Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.
    4. Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
    5. Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
    6. A good tactic is one your people enjoy.
    7. A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
    8. Keep the pressure on.
    9. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
    10. Develop operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.
    11. Push the negative...every positive has its negative.
    12. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
    13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it.

    Where the Tea Party is concerned, each of these “rules” are being employed by the Progressives and Liberal Democrats, but none as viciously as Rule 13, “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”

    Of this tactic, Rule 13, Alinsky writes:

    “In conflict tactics there are certain rules that [should be regarded] as universalities. One is that the opposition must be singled out as the target and ‘frozen’...any target can always say, ‘Why do you center on me when there are others to blame as well?’ When your ‘freeze the target,’ you disregard these [rational but distracting] arguments...Then, as you zero in and freeze your target and carry out your attack, all the ‘others’ come out of the woodwork very soon. They become visible by their support of the target...One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.”

    As we watch the mainstream media’s coverage of the Tea Party movement we can see Rule 13 playing out:

    ▪ The Progressives and Liberal Democrats, including those in the mainstream media, have “picked the target” and “frozen it”: The Tea Party movement and its participants.

    ▪ In addressing the Tea Party movement, Progressives and Liberal Democrats – in the mainstream media, the blogosphere and in elected office – have attempted to paint the movement’s participants as “extreme,” “fringe” and “violent,” thus personalizing the Tea Party participants.

    ▪ In promoting this skewed and dishonest depiction of the Tea Party movement, Progressives and Liberal Democrats are attempting to polarize the nation, dividing our country along partisan lines into a “For v. Against” confrontation about the Tea Party movement. In doing the Progressives and Liberal Democrats hope that a significant number of Independents and “undecideds” are swayed by their disingenuous propaganda.

    It all seems so absurdly simple and recognizable but to date the Progressive and Liberal Democrat camps have used this tactic successfully to move the country further to the ideological Left, incrementally, year after year after year. One needs to look no further than the potency of Political Correctness to understand the effectiveness of Rule 13. What was a joke in 1981 is now de facto law and becoming legislated law incrementally, i.e. hate speech legislation, over-zealous environmental legislation, healthcare legislation, immigration reform, energy policy, etc.

    But the one thing that the Progressives and Liberal Democrats – the Alinskyites – didn’t foresee is that the Tea Party movement isn’t about opportunistic political power or the championing of a political party. It is because these two contentions speak to the core of what the Tea Party movement is that We the People stand a fighting chance against the totalitarian and elitist power grab being made by the Progressives and Liberal Democrats.

    This is why it is absolutely critical that those who consider themselves members of the Tea Party movement – as I consider myself – hold true to, at the very least, to these three convictions:

    ▪ The Tea Party movement is not exclusive to any one political party, but is a grassroots movement born of the American people that spans all political philosophies that recognize the sanctity and sovereignty of the US Constitution and the Charters of Freedom.

    ▪ The Tea Party movement is not about establishing a political faction, but is about ensuring that those elected to office are beholden to the United States Constitution and the preservation of our Constitutional Republic via constitutional law and fidelity to the constitutional legislative process.

    ▪ That the Tea Party movement is essentially the reawakening of the American citizenry to constitutional literacy and our constitutionally mandated duty to civic responsibility and governmental oversight, and that because of this the Tea Party movement functions on a personal level and needs and/or requires no “leader,” self-proclaimed or otherwise.

    Of course there are more issues that many in the Tea Party movement hold as critical – tax reformation, States Rights, ethics in government and perhaps even a renewed appreciation for term limits – but in maintaining fidelity to the above stated three core convictions, We the People – especially those of us in the Tea Party movement – will be able to defeat the divisively oppressive tactics of the Progressives and the Liberal Democrats – the Alinskyites – who are, today, drunk with power and hell-bent on the Socialization of our Republic.

    The key to a peaceful victory over the Alinskyites – who tend to become violent when their backs are against the wall – in what has been described in some circles as the Second American Civil War, is an unwavering devotion to the philosophies and principles employed by the Founders and Framers in their creation of our Constitutional Republic.

    “As the cool and deliberate sense of the community ought in all governments, and actually will in all free governments ultimately prevail over the views of its rulers; so there are particular moments in public affairs, when the people stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn. In these critical moments, how salutary will be the interference of some temperate and respectable body of citizens, in order to check the misguided career, and to suspend the blow mediated by the people against themselves, until reason, justice and truth, can regain their authority over the public mind?” – James Madison, Federalist No. 63

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    In light of the fact that the US Supreme Court refused to hear a lawsuit requiring the verification of President-Elect Barack Obama’s satisfaction of Article II, Section 1 of the US Constitution, it has become clear that we are facing a constitutional crisis...

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