Tea Party Movement: Get Local But Be Vocal

December 21, 2009 / 5:18 pm • By Dr. Melissa Clouthier

There’s a worthwhile article over at Big Government talking about, essentially, the Tea Party movement getting involved locally:

To end the progression of large intrusive government and the progressive agenda, the TEA party must neuter the left’s farm team. City Council, County Board, Park Districts, and School Boards may not have the flash of State Representatives, State Senators or their federal partners, but, they are, indeed, perhaps more the important .

The progressives and Big Government-types have entrenched themselves into local power bases. They have expanded the role of government from the garbage man to the kindergarten teacher. They are taking us over from within, yet we can push back.

So the suggestion is to stop yelling and start working:

TEA Parties nation-wide have found that calling, writing, and showing up in person in D.C. has the same impact as a hiccup in a hurricane. After turning out thousands of citizens at rallies, overwhelming the Senate phone lines and crashing Congress’ e-mail system, our elected representatives are poised to enact the greatest expansion of government in history. The TEA Parties followed the direction of national organizations and associations. They answered the call, but were sent over the trench-line without an actual plan or support. (See, for example, Somme, Battle of) It is time for the TEA Party movement to turn inward. In the words of the age-old adage, “ All politics is local “.

Okay. Absolutely.

Still, the National Movement was NOT a waste. It is not a waste even still. That show of numbers and voice reinforced people who felt hopeless and helpless, energizing them to get involved when they go home. Not only that, they network, they get to know one another, get training, and unite to share a message with Congress.

They go home and get involved. So, it’s both. I don’t think getting involved nationally is mutually exclusive to getting involved locally. In fact, both are needed.

The Tea Party people are doing exactly what they need to be doing. They’re vocal, and now, they’re acting local. Good.

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  • DaveR

    More important – they are doing it OUTSIDE and mostly without the help of any of the National Party, and even the State and Local Parties. Groups are forming on FB, people are creating their own email lists – and not have them being told by some sleezeball from Party HQ on what’s going on that was decided before any public meetings were even called.

    (Not that I support a third party – that will only lead to even LONGER stays in office for the enemy. We need to take our party BACK from the elitist RINO’s that lied and stole it from us)

  • http://24Ahead.com/ 24AheadDotCom

    The same incompetents who helped you fail before now have a plan for you to fail a new way. Good job.

    P.S. This has nothing to do with the TP leaders being delusional drama queens who have shown that they’re unable to think their way out of a half-open bag made of wet tissue paper.

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  • http://www.rightklik.net RightKlik

    My sentiments exactly. Thanks for posting this.

  • Scarlette

    That is how the left operated, they infiltrated local government bodies so that is where we must push back. Also, pay attention to your state delegates and senators and write and call them like you would Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. They are not used to people paying that much attention to them.

  • http://www.der-geld-strauss.de Renate

    Eigentlich bin ich ja nicht so der “Blog-Fan” aber nach deinem Artikel