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Notes For Our Next Meeting – August 12
August 9th, 2010 | 
Author: 1. This week’s meeting will be held at a special location with a special guest speaker, Mr. Jim Deakin, candidate for US Senate. The August 12th meeting, at 6 p.m., will be at the Desert Hills Golf Course meeting room (1245 W. Desert Hills Dr.) This is easily located as the next drive way after the Yuma Civic Center. For those looking for an alternative to the bickering between McCain and Hayworth, make a point to come out and meet Mr. Deakin up close and personal.
2. A good problem! As we continue to grow in numbers, we need to keep our eyes and ears open for a larger meeting place. If you have any ideas, please drop an email to coloradoriverteaparty@yahoo.com with your thoughts.
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Unbelievable! A Fair Article on The Tea Party Movement in the New York Times
Tea Party Avoids Divisive Social Issues
By KATE ZERNIKE
Published: March 12, 2010
For decades, faith and family have been at the center of the conservative movement.
But as the Tea Party infuses conservatism with new energy, its leaders deliberately avoid discussion of issues like gay marriage or abortion.
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| Jessica Kourkounis/NY Times |
| Anastasia Przybylski, the co-founder of the Kitchen Table Patriots, said focusing on economic issues lures Democrats. |
God, life and family get little if any mention in statements or manifestos. The motto of the Tea Party Patriots, a large coalition of groups, is “fiscal responsibility, limited government, and free markets.” The Independence Caucus questionnaire, which many Tea Party groups use to evaluate candidates, poses 80 questions, most on the proper role of government, tax policy and the federal budgeting process, and virtually none on social issues.
The Contract From America, which is being created Wiki-style by Internet contributors as a manifesto of what “the people” want government to do, also mentions little in the way of social issues, beyond a declaration that parents should be given choice in how to educate their children. By contrast, the document it aims to improve upon — the Contract With America, which Republicans used to market their successful campaign to win a majority in Congress in 1994 — was prefaced with the promise that the party would lead a Congress that “respects the values and shares the faith of the American family.”
Tea Party leaders argue that the country can ill afford the discussion about social issues when it is passing on enormous debts to future generations. But the focus is also strategic: leaders think they can attract independent voters if they stay away from divisive issues.
“We should be creating the biggest tent possible around the economic conservative issue,” said Ryan Hecker, the organizer behind the Contract From America. “I think social issues may matter to particular individuals, but at the end of the day, the movement should be agnostic about it. This is a movement that rose largely because of theRepublican Party failing to deliver on being representative of the economic conservative ideology. To include social issues would be beside the point.”
SOURCE: New York Times