We've received some good coverage this week in the Dallas Morning News:
"WASHINGTON – Texas has one of the most conservative delegations in Congress, yet more than half of the state's Republicans in the U.S. House face challengers from the right – most inspired by the anti-tax Tea Party movement.
"We have been encouraging people to get involved and ... to seriously consider running for office" against politicians whose views of government don't match their own, said Dallas attorney Ken Emanuelson, a leader in the local Tea Party movement. "That's a good thing."
In Texas, 11 of 20 Republicans have drawn challengers. In nearly every case, Tea Party connections are apparent..."
Tea Party challengers aren't limited to Federal races:
Republicans have more internal fights to settle than Democrats. Seventeen Republican [State] House incumbents must shake off challenges in the March 2 primary before they can turn their eyes to November.
GOP strategists credit the Tea Party movement for at least six of the challenges: those to Reps. Charlie Geren of Fort Worth, Todd Smith of Euless, Vicki Truitt of Keller, Tommy Merritt of Longview, Delwin Jones of Lubbock, and Hopson of Jacksonville.
For those of us that have screamed and rallied and have opposed this take over of our liberties. But we must continue the fight. The left will only get nastier and back room deals will get uglier. Just wait, they are desperate and we haven't seen their worse yet!
We must persevere!
pilot, Hero, member of congress, (that is 5)
or Sara Palin, Mother, degree in journalism, reporter, business owner, fisherman, fisher of women, PTA Board, city elected official, governor of a State, Commander of Chief of a State Army, built a pipeline the feds and private interest could not do & cheaper.
A candidate shall be someone that can read the constitution, a worker that has earned and paid their own way without being. subsidized and has one promise, "to uphold their Oath Of Office to enforce, uphold and preserve the Constitution of the Republic of the United States of America---- "WHICH NO LONGER EXIST" We the people have to take to away from the elected politicians in office.
We can not wait for the next election, we have to do it at the State level by removing them from office because they violated their Oath of Office and are in conflict with the Constitutional LAWS.
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Because we the people do not read the Constitution to know what the true law is. We do not know our own guaranteed freedoms, liberties and rights are under the law.
We sit around talking and letting someone else run for office, that we do not even know; electing them to sit on their thumbs letting Socialism destroy our Country without firing a shot; like Kruchef (SP) promised.
We are guaranteed the right to vote, but everyone does not have the knowledge to know the candidate they vote for. The one lever vote for the party should
We already know they're not going to listen to our collective voices, calls or faxes.Therefore, we need to be more proactive. Perhaps we should impose something like our government does to rouge nations i.e. sanctions. We could organize all the tea party members, 9-12er's ( I went to DC)and other like minded people to demand congress stop and/or repeal these new laws or we'll impose some form of sanction'(s). The only thing that comes to mind that they care about is tax dollars. We could start with, say a work stoppage, until they listen to we the people, everyone including childern could stay home and away from all forms of commerce one day a month, perhaps the first week day of each month, then if after a couple of months congress still does not bend to the will of the people we could increase the work stoppage from one to two days