REPUBLICAN Attack Ad Targets CONSERVATIVE Doug Hoffman, NY 23

I can't believe the National Republican Congressional Committee is targeting the only conservative in the NY 23 race. People, like me, who support Doug Hoffman, who contribute to his campaign, but do not live in New York are being accused of meddling. Newt Gingrich's spokesman, Rick Tyler, appearing on Neil Cavuto's show, asserts that if conservatives don't vote for Scuzzy, then it will be our fault if the democrat is elected.

Excuse me? A vote for Scuzzy is a vote for Owens is a vote for the democrat. There is no difference in ideology or practice. So if conservatives vote values, Newt and Tyler will claim the conservatives gave the election to the democrat. They don't get it. A democrat wins UNLESS voters stand on principle and vote for the conservative.

Even if Hoffman loses (which I don't think will happen), even if he loses, surely the republican leadership will see that if they don't select, endorse, promote conservative candidates, then they can't expect voters to simply check the box next to the candidate with the (R) behind his name.

It won't be "We the People" who cost the election(s). It will be the tone-deaf, entrenched, out-of-touch republican leadership who refuse to acknowledge that the Tea Party movement -- the FISCAL Conservative, personal RESPONSIBILITY, robust national DEFENSE -- that the Tea Party Patriots are fed up with all politicians.

The third-party-can't-win scare tactics have gone on too long. The voters of NY 23 have a unique opportunity to send a message to the entire Nation by voting their values and not the party. NY 23 can be the beginning of real CHANGE.

I know it can happen because I was at the 912 March on the Capitol and it was all ages, all political ideologies, all walks of life, all AMERICANS. Each ready to vote for whomever we believe will restore our Nation to the Constitutional Republic our Founders fought and sacrificed to form.

Americans for Prosperity Defending the Dream Summit

Over 2,000 activists attended the Americans for Prosperity Foundation's 3rd annual Defending the Dream Summit, Washington, DC, October 2nd and 3rd. Jason was working, but my sister and I drove up October 1st rather than take the buses up EARLY October 2nd. By going a day early, we were able to attend an additional grassroots training session Friday morning.



The Summit was exceptionally well-organized, and, like the 912 March on the Capitol, the attendees were happy, polite, motivated, polite... no angry mobs, racists, or Nazis in sight.

Taxpayer Tea Party Draws 1,200. April 16, 2009

Tea time was 6 p.m. but people began arriving much earlier and the crowd (we hadn't been labeled an "Angry Mob" yet), the size of the gathering exceeded all expectations. I was sick (what's new?) and couldn't go; Jason and Bill had a blast.



Bill and June had come over earlier in the week and we had our own small tea party, brainstormed what we wanted on our signs, then made posters the rest of the night. It was the first time Jason, Bill, and June had protested. I've been a lifelong political junkie, but never to this degree. Of course, our Nation has never been in as much peril -- from our own government! -- as now.



Jason said the line of marchers began at the county building and took at least 15 minutes for everyone to move to the Union Point Park. Our own small preview of the 912 March on the Capitol when it took us almost three hours to move the 1.1 miles down Pennsylvania Avenue!

The event took its name partly from the 1773 Boston Tea Party to protest the English crown's tax on tea and partly based on what signs near the group's booth spelled out: "Taxed Enough Already."

There were at least 35 similar tax protests across the state, there were 1,000 protestors in Morehead City, 2,000 in Charlotte, 1,000 in Rutherfordton, 1,000 in Winston Salem and 1,200 in Greensboro.

According to a show of hands, it was the first protest for about a third of those attending.