Seeding the Grass Roots
Bill James, the pioneer baseball number-cruncher who is also a gifted sportswriter, once observed that historians reduce real events to patterns of light and shadow, which popular memory further reduces to black and white. The description of the Tea Party movement offered yesterday by the Projo in an unsigned editorial was derived from a black-and-white…
… for those of us who have watched with consternation the push around the country – and especially in Washington – for expansion of both big government and illegal immigration. 1) Republican Richard Ross (R – again, that’s R) has won by a substantial margin the state senate seat vacated by Scott Brown. Ross even…
In Utah (h/t), incumbent Republican Senator Bob Bennett is running in third place with a couple weeks to go before the Utah GOP winnows the field down to two candidates. The Utah GOP is dominated by members of–or those sympathetic to–the Tea Party movement and Bennett has come under fire for proposing that individuals be…
Strolling amidst the crowd of the latest Tea Party, Ed Fitzpatrick reflected as follows: I’ve got to believe the health-care law is going to do more good than the Iraq war, and I wondered if Tea Party members were concerned that the cost of the war had reached $717.5 billion as of Thursday, according to…
The angle of the two photographs is not identical … 2009 [Courtesy Justin Katz] 2010
One theme that was repeated at yesterday’s Tax-Day Tea Party rally was that the Tea Party can only be successful over the long term, if it continues to grow itself by reaching out to others…Audio of Colleen Conley, directly outreaching to the rank and file membership of Rhode Island’s unions.Audio of Anastasia Eurton, describing what…
(Pink slip…did you get it?) (This one presents an interesting paradox. If this is a regular Tea Party goer, than Jeff Montgomery of the People for the American Way would suggest that this sign is beyond the pale. But if were to be held by a Tea Party crasher coming from a leftist perspective, this…
The person in the center of the picture was holding an offensive sign that made reference to Timothy McVeigh. The serious-looking gentleman in the cool shades on the left side of the picture is a Rhode Island State Police officer. Several different times, Tea Party members attempted to hold their own signs directly in front…
No coverage of a Tea Party event would be complete without some information on the crowd size. This is from a little after 3:30… From about 4:30… (Say hi to possible GA candidate Richard Rodi in the lower right hand corner). …and the crowd was still the same size or larger, by ten-past 5:00… And…
I got tied up working in Newport, today, but Andrew’s at the State House sending me photos from the Tax Day Tea Party.
