THE TEA PARTY REPORTER
October 2018 (No. 9)


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Tea Party Victories
Tea Party News
Meetings of Note
Cool Projects
Notable
We Still Need the Tea Party....

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Tea Party Victories

• Helped stop the House DACA amnesty bill (June 2018 - this article in Politico shows that the immigration survey Tea Party Patriots Action helped craft played a decisive role in the defeat of the bill)
  
  
• The Supreme Court ruled that ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ t-shirts cannot be banned from polling places under the First Amendment (June 2018)
  
  
• The U.S. withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal (May 2018 – Donald Trump spoke against the deal at a Tea Party Patriots rally in Washington in 2015)
  
  
• President Trump has cut hundreds of job-killing regulations (May 2018)
  
  
• Numerous Tea Party-supported candidates made it through their primaries, including Ted Cruz, Louie Gohmert, Steve King, Mark Meadows, Dave Brat, Chip Roy, Ted Budd, Mark Harris, Patrick Morrisey, Mike Braun, and others (March - May 2018)
  
  
• Around Virginia
  • Tea Party-backed Tim Hannigan was elected Chairman of the pivotal Fairfax County Republican Committee in Virginia.  State election results often turn on mammoth Fairfax County and Tim ran on a platform of increasing GOP turnout.  (March 2018)
  • Mark Hiehl – active with Virginia Tea Party – got a bill passed requiring every government school district in Virginia to put its budget online (~March 2018)

Tea Party News
98.4% of Tea Party Patriots supporters want Jim Jordan for House Speaker
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/984-tea-party-patriots-support-jim-jordan-house-speaker

4th James O’Keefe ‘Deep State’ video – socialist revenue worker justifies IRS targeting of conservative groups
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/09/25/project-veritas-fourth-release-the-administrative-state-and-the-irs/

Judge approves $3.5 million settlement in Tea Party class action suit against IRS targeting 
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/9/judge-approves-35-million-settlement-irs-tea-party/

Documents show “it was McCain’s staff urging the Obama administration to use the IRS to target tea-party and other political opposition groups that were threatening both the Democrat and Republican Party establishments.”
http://americanfreepress.net/mccain-behind-targeting-of-tea-party/

Ohio Attorney General joins Tea Parties in asking that Lois Lerner’s deposition be made public in IRS targeting case
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/1/ohio-joins-battle-force-lerner-records-released/

ICE protesters disrupt Tea Party California Caucus event
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article216446460.html

Tea Party part of coalition that lost challenge to Ohio’s Internet harassment law
http://www.tribtoday.com/opinion/editorials/2018/03/ohios-internet-law-contradicts-us-constitution-2/

Tea Party activists in Virginia busy working on state legislation, fighting voter fraud, and running for office
 https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/10/05/meet-12-tea-party-activists-whore-busy-improving-their-state/

Longview Tea Party (Texas) fights municipal bond issue, argues city should save up the money needed instead of incurring debt
https://www.news-journal.com/news/tea-party-group-continues-opposition-to-possible-longview-bond/article_61bc7370-99f2-11e8-bc5e-6b15c2c3fcf0.html

Tea Party activists criticize tax rate, spending items at Texas county budget hearing
https://sanangelolive.com/news/county/2018-08-24/tea-party-activists-decry-county-tax-rate-spending-budget-hearing

Common Sense Campaign TEA Party (Alabama) protests drag queen story hour in public library [Editor’s Note –This is not a ‘social issue’; it is a limited government issue.  The government is deliberately trying to create more gender-confused kids to transform the country and soften it up for left-wing big government agendas. It is entirely appropriate for Tea Partiers to object to such ‘New Soviet Man’-style social engineering.]
http://altoday.com/archives/25962-tea-party-group-plans-protest-of-drag-queen-story-hour-in-mobile

Southern Tier TEA Party (NY) endorses sheriff candidate
http://www.observertoday.com/news/local-region/2018/09/southern-tier-tea-party-patriots-endorse-quattrone/

Wichita Falls Tea Partiers favor Democratic candidate for Texas Land Commissioner as having the better plan for the Alamo grounds
https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/local-news/wf-tea-party-leader-backs-dem-for-land-commissioner/1499264550

R.I.P. - George Pangborn, president of Highland Lakes Tea Party (Texas)
 https://www.burnetbulletin.com/articles/2018/08/01/colleagues-mourn-local-tea-party-leader-pangborn

The Tea Party movement soldiers on, to stop the authoritarian Left from taking over the country
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/the-gop-tried-to-kill-it-but-the-tea-party-is-not-dead/
 
Meetings of Note

• Northern Kentucky Tea Party co-sponsored an event featuring Jim Jordan, Matt Bevin, and Ron Paul
  
  
• Payson Tea Party (Arizona) had Joe Arpaio speak
  
  
• Highland County Tea Party (Florida held a candlelight vigil for a fallen sheriff
  
  
• North Central MA Tea Party (Massachusetts) held a potluck dinner to introduce candidates for Governor, U.S. House, and state Senate
  
  
• Nevada County Tea Party Patriots screened "LaVoy: Dead Man Talking, A Cowboy's Fight For Freedom” (Arizona rancher who was shot and killed in Oregon by law enforcement officers in 2016)
  
  
• Saint Augustine Tea Party hosts mayor as guest speaker
  
  

• TEA Party Patriots of Dodge County (Nebraska) hosted the president of the local city council
  
  
• Chino Tea Party (California) had a field rep from the California Rifle and Pistol Association speak
  
  
• Manistee Area Tea Party (Michigan) enjoyed its annual picnic, in conjunction with the local GOP
  
  
• United Tea Party of Georgia and the Forsyth County Tea Party (Georgia) listened to a presentation on the importance of the Constitution and pushing back on federal overreach
  
  
• Tea Party of Scottsdale (Arizona) heard reasons to oppose the National Popular Vote Compact
  
  
• The Lakes Region Tea Party discussed voter fraud and how state laws have made New Hampshire notorious for enabling out-of-staters to vote in New Hampshire elections
  
  

Cool Projects

• San Antonio Tea Party started a PAC [Texans United for Freedom (TUFF PAC - SATP)], endorses candidates, and publishes voter guides
  
  
• Knoxville Tea Party (TN) gives free copies of Bastiat’s ‘The Law’ to state lawmakers.  KTP has gotten a number of thank-you’s back, including from the Speaker of the Tennessee House. [Editor’s Note – ‘The Law’ was written in direct response to The Communist Manifesto.  If you’ve never heard of ‘legal plunder’ by the state, you need to read ‘The Law’.]
  
  
• Redlands Tea Party (CA) is distributing 15,000 voter guides for the November elections.  The guides cover congressional, state, and local races.  “The voter guide will include a few surprises which could make establishment Republicans break out into a cold sweat,” spokesman John Berry said. 
  
  
• TeaParty911 (Houston area) points volunteers to GOTV opportunities in critical close House races in four states in the mid-terms.  Info here  
  
  

Notable

• Co-founder of the first Los Angeles Tea Party comparing Tea Party behavior to the Left’s insane behavior now: “We didn't light things on fire. We didn't threaten people. We got permits to gather. We cleaned up when we were done.  We certainly never advocated and embraced public harassment. Now the left has a member of Congress doing that for them.” PJ Media
  
  
• Tea Party-backed Governor of Kentucky Matt Bevin explains how to grow government - shrink morality down to nothingness.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=F6XTVuUP0Ho
  
  
• Tea Party figure Keli Carender looks back... and ahead: “We may not have the support of the media, or Hollywood, or academia, or Oprah, but we are strong, tenacious, and committed to making sure our nation’s kids will live as free people.”
  https://www.teapartypatriots.org/news/tea-party-patriots-the-non-conforming-underdogs/

 
We Still Need the Tea Party....

• ... to fight the loony Left. The Pussy Church of Modern Witchcraft – really?

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