East Valley TEA Party

Code Red Alert – Join us this Saturday in front of Harry Mitchell’s office at the corner of Scottsdale & Camelback Roads. It also is the Tea Party 1st Anniversary – so we’ll celebrate that too!

Bring your signs and Red Balloons!

Time: February 27, 2010 from 1pm to 3pm
Location: Harry Mitchell’s Office
Street: 7201 E. Scottsdale Road
City/Town: Scottsdale, AZ 85251
Website or Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f…
Event Type: rally
Organized By: Tea Party Patriots of Scottsdale & Arizona Tea Party Network Members*** Note: Do not park in front of Harry Mitchell’s office – that is private parking area and you will be towed.

Wednesday March 3rd at Noon we are planning to Rally at the Arizona State Capital and support our elected leaders who have been working diligently for solutions to our state budget crisis.

We need to show our support for those leaders that are listening, not just complain when they don’t.   Rumor has it that we might even be joined by some of our elected officials who are supportive of the TEA Party efforts.

We are asking all TEA Party Members to plan on meeting on the East Side of the Capital.  Please wear something to distinguish yourself as a member of a TEA Party (T-shirts, buttons, Red, White and Blue ribbon with a TEA Bag, etc.)

While you are at the Capital, you can sign up to utilize the Public Comment System. This will enable us to comment on bills and issues in the future from other locations-anywhere that you can access the internet.

Here is what is coming for the TEA Party this year:

• Final voting on Contract from America – began on February 18, 2010
• Recharge the Movement Protests – February 27, 2010
• Nationwide screenings of the TEA Party Movie – February 27, 2010
• TEA Party local coordinator training
• TAX DAY TEA PARTIES – April 15, 2010
• Roll-out of Final Contract from America – April 15, 2010
• Constitutional Educational Training, Founding Principles Bus Tour
• Activist Educational Training
• Independence Day events – July 2-July 4, 2010
• August Heat – Congressional Town Hall Meetings
• 912 March on DC – September 12, 2010
• Get Out the Vote and voter education – October – November 2010
• ELECTION DAY – Tuesday, November 2, 2010
• Year-round grassroots lobbying when legislation arises

Read the latest news from the TEA Party group:

Dear Fellow Tea Party Patriots,

Andrew Breitbart is reporting that former President Bill Clinton and James Carville are planning a counter offensive against the tea party movement. According to biggovernment.com, their plans are to identify 7- 8 national figures active in the tea party movement and engage in a smear campaign against them. You can read more on Clinton’s plans at the link below.

Click here to read the biggovernment article on Clinton Plans

Clearly, the liberals, and especially Bill Clinton, still do not yet understand the tea party movement, which began 1 year ago this week with the Porkulus Protest in Seattle and Rick Santelli’s rant in Chicago. The tea party movement has tens of thousands of leaders across this great land, not just 7 or 8. There are patriots shining the light of fiscal responsibility, free markets and constitutionally limited government from shore to shore.

Our leaders are tea party organizers, patriots that make phone calls and send emails to their elected officials, bloggers, and activists that take time out of their lives to attend tea parties, the list goes on and on. We are the sleeping majority that has awakened.

The tea party movement is like a starfish with many legs. You cut one of us off, and another will grow to take their place.

We patriots know that we are fighting for the principles that our freedom loving nation was founded on. We are just ordinary people reclaiming America’s founding principles. We are a diverse group that comes from every walk of life and ethnic background. We all have one thing in common and that is we love freedom – economic freedom and freedom from big government and massive government deficits.

We have decided to go on the offensive and make it easy for former President Clinton and James Carville to identify tea party leaders. We have created a web site for you to upload videos to. We hope to collect videos from thousands of patriots telling former President Clinton and James Carville that they are tea party leaders. Film the videos at home, soccer fields, grocery stores and other locations that are indicative of the diversity of the tea party movement. There is strength in numbers.

Record your video saying only “I am the tea party leader”. Please do not make any statement other than the one listed or it will not be posted. Upload your video to the web site below. Visit the web site to view videos of other patriots and to find out more information.

I Am The Tea Party Leader Web Site

The Contract from America initiative has been developed within the TEA Party and 9-12 groups.   Right now, you can vote on the top 10 issues to be included in the Contract from America that will be unveiled at the April 15 Tea Parties.   Below is an excerpt from the web site:

The Contract from America serves as a clarion call for those who recognize the importance of free market principles, limited government, and individual liberty. It is the natural extension of a movement that began in the local communities and quickly spread across America in response to unprecedented government expansion, reckless spending, and a blatant disregard by our leaders of the nation’s founding principles.

During the past several months, hundreds of thousands of Americans have debated thousands of ideas to solve our nation’s most pressing problems. It has been an open process and has provided a genuine opportunity to give voice to a broad cross section of concerned Americans.

Now we enter the next phase; to narrow the list and let America draft the final version of the Contract from America…<note> go to the web site to vote<note>… The final document will be unveiled on Thursday, April 15, 2010. Together, we can and will make a difference.

Anita Christy and other Gilbert Citizens were recently silenced at a Gilbert Town Council meeting when they attempted to speak out in opposition of a pending tax increase in Gilbert. The tax increase is scheduled to be voted on at an upcoming election.

The attorney for the Goldwater Institute has determined that the Citizens do have the right to speak out about this Tax Increase. Anita Christy received the following statement and a letter from the Goldwater Institute regarding the matter.

“The Goldwater Institute delivered the attached letter by email to the Gilbert Town Council, in response to the action last week to deny Gilbert residents the opportunity to speak about the upcoming sales tax election. We will be watching to see what happens next at the council retreat this Saturday.”

Click here to read the letter from the Goldwater Institute.

Our compliments to Gilbert Residents and especially Anita Christy for working on behalf of all Gilbert Citizens fighting increased taxes.

A Learning Experience Your Family Will Never Forget

You are invited to attend The Making of America Seminar being held on Saturday, March 6th taught by Earl Taylor.   Taylor is recognized throughout the nation as one of the greatest authorities and instructors of the Constitution.  He is the President of the National Center for Constitutional Studies, the organization formed by Cleon Skousen, the author of 5000 Year Leap.

It is important that you call and register so enough workbooks will be available.

Seminar Schedule
(with intermittent breaks)

8:30 a.m. – noon  “Developing America’s Great Success Formula”

This is an exciting exploration which Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Washington and others made in order to rediscover the key to the creation of the first free nation in modern times.  We will trace their adventure from 1400 B.C. to A.D. 1787

noon – 12:45 p.m.  Lunch break on your own

12:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.  “The Perfect Plan of Liberty”

A refreshing look at the solid political and economic principles from the preamble through the amendments to the Constitution.  You will learn perhaps for the first time, how nearly every problem in America today can be solved by restoring these successful concepts.

Your family will see, hear, and learn with exciting, unforgettable stories, and fill-in-the-blank study guides – all developed by a master teacher, W. Cleon Skousen.
Seminar Instructor – Earl Taylor, Jr.

Print out the handout, available here.

Place:  Heritage Academy, 32 S. Center, Mesa, Arizona

Date:  Saturday, March 6, 2010

Time:   8:30 – 4:00 p.m.

Fee:  $10.00 per participant

Register:  (480) 969-5641

Please call to reserve a seat and study guide.  Each participant will be given a 136 page study guide.

East Valley TEA Party meets Tuesday

Tuesday February 16, 2010

6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Burke Basic School

131 East Southern Avenue, Mesa Az  85210

Donations appreciated of $2.50 per person

• Southern Avenue North of US 60
• Between Mesa Drive and Country Club
• South side of Southern
  

Guest Speakers This Week:

Bill Norton

Bill Norton will be teaching on the principles from the 5000 Year Leap.   Bill has worked with the City of Gilbert on the Constitution Week Celebration and is a knowledgeable advocate on limited government, Constitutional adherence and the citizen’s role in government.

Dan Schultz

Precinct Committeeman Advocate, West Point graduate, Attorney and recently elected MCRC member at large.

Join us and learn what is being done locally and TEA Party Patriots can do nationally, quick and effectively.