Seeding the Grass Roots
Michael Barone writes, “Many of the sneering comments about the participants in last week’s hundreds of tea parties across the nation were premised on the idea that these people didn’t know much about public policy.” (Sounds familiar). However, as Barone mentions, a Pew Research poll conducted at the end of March (you can take the…
National Education Association of Rhode Island Executive Director Bob Walsh expresses puzzlement over Colleen Conley’s being allowed to be the spokesperson for the RI Tea Party: on Buddy’s show on Ch. 6 on Sunday – he went fairly easy on her after she could not answer basic questions about the size of RI’s budget or…
A quick Friday afternoon note regarding two events — one statewide and one in Tiverton — in which y’all might be (should be) interested: The deadline to register for Operation Clean Government’s Public Affairs Forum, which includes a breakfast and a panel discussion, is tomorrow. The event itself is next Saturday morning. Tiverton Citizens for…
It would be silly to take the presumed competition seriously, but considering the Providence Business News headline Wednesday morning of “Dueling demonstrations to mark Tax Day,” perhaps we’d be justified in asking who won: Two groups with different views on how those tax dollars should and should not be used will hold demonstrations in the…
Sometimes, one reads statements that leave the impression that the center line of American politics is a portal from one reality — with its own intellectual and moral standards — and another. Among the (predictable) criticisms being directed toward the Providence tea party is that the vast majority of those in attendance were light skinned,…
A reader sent me the following pictures today. (My mother likes the last one.)
This is a topic that I intend to consider from a couple of angles for some posts tomorrow, but it’s worth making the general suggestion that attempts by various folks to define yesterday’s tea party in Providence as something that it wasn’t, or in a light that doesn’t really apply, suggests that they just don’t…
Here are a few of the ideas encapsulated by the best sign from yesterday desperately needing some public discussion. 1. What exactly is it that happened, in 1776, when a new nation “conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” was born? (OK, so I threw a bit of…
What else would Matt and I have discussed during last night’s Matt Allen show, other than the tea party? For thoughts on what to make of it and what to do next: stream by clicking here, or download it.
Upwards of 3,000 Rhode Islanders who’ve already had enough of Change made their presence known at the Tax Day Tea Party in Providence, RI. For those from elsewhere, that is an absolutely huge crowd backing this particular range of issues in this particular state, in which some commentators were predicting attendance in the hundreds. We’ll…
