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Lugar Looses Or Tea Party Win?

Official NVaTP.com Statement:

Lugar Looses or Tea Party Win?

Today could be celebrated as Zombie day: Return of the Dead Tea Party.  For months and throughout the presidential primary season, media and “Republican Strategists” on cable have claimed the Tea Party Dead – withered away. Articles like the one linked, http://politic365.com/2012/01/20/ten-signs-the-tea-party-is-dead/, abound.  After all – there are no rallies so we must be gone. When we were not accused of being dead, we were accused of single-handedly stopping all meaningful compromise in Washington DC.  Never mind that every compromise cost us hundreds of billions of dollars in national treasure we do not have.

So which is it? Are we dead or all powerful?

We’re neither, we’re working on Tea Party 2.0 and the media is looking for Tea Party 1.0.  Tea Party 1.0 showed up to protest the egregious abuses of power.  Tea Party 1.0 enabled millions of Americans to learn how corruption broke down the checks and balances of our Republic. Tea Party 1.0 culminated with the 2010 elections where the House at the federal level made historic gains. Tea Party 1.0’s most significant success was not the federal government’s change but the 700 local government candidates who replaced the up-and-coming spend-a-holics.  Tea Party 1.0 permanently shifted the dialogue to fiscal sanity.  Four years ago, Mitt Romney was the most conservative candidate who Republicans could have chosen.  Today, Mitt Romney is the most liberal Republican choice.  Four Years ago, American talked about change, now America talks about rolling back government.

Six Years ago, Senator Lugar was so formidable, he went unchallenged.  Today he stands defeated. 

Barack Obama noted Dick Lugar was President Obama’s favorite Republican. Senator Lugar came to symbolize Washington’s devil’s bargain – you get power if you compromise your principles. Today, the Tea Party tore up that bargain. You get power in Washington today, if your constituents believe you represent them.  Throughout the country, Tea Party 2.0 works to effect change - not through massive rally’s but through winning elections.  Our goal is to win from the ground up.  Tea Party 2.0 is about controlling the party apparatus from the ground up of BOTH political parties – Republicans first and then the Democrats.  Tea Party 2.0 is about controlling local communities and NOT promoting big spending progressives.  In 2010 700 local elected big spenders were defeated.

Tea Party 2.0 in 2012 will repeat the local gains of 2010.  How do you know?  Look at Wisconsin and North Carolina – both states had marquee votes on 8 May.  In North Carolina the citizens voted against Judicial Activism by passing a Marriage amendment to their state constitution.  In Wisconsin the two most popular democrats challenging Scott Walker could not beat him if you combined their respective total votes in the primary.  If the two most popular Dems in Wisconsin combined vote totals can’t beat Walker’s uncontested primary race vote total, how will the progressives win in the general election?  They won’t. It’s no secret that the Tea Party in Wisconsin is behind Scott Walker.

SO continue to work diligently and cheerfully in 2012 for Tea Party 2,0 goals and know we’re winning far more than we are losing. Reversing 100 years of progressivism won’t be a 100 day effort.  It won’t be a 1000 day effort, but neither will it be a 100 year effort…And Tea Party 3.0 lurks in the future…

May 8^th 2012
Copyright 2012 Northern Virginia Tea Party

S. O. S. – SPEAKING OF SENIORS SAVED CLIENT $858

S. O. S. – SPEAKING OF SENIORS

SAVED CLIENT $858

By Woodrow Wilcox

            An elderly client who emigrated from Puerto Rico to Indiana brought a medical bill to our office and asked for my help.  The client is an elderly woman who now lives in Merrillville, Indiana.

            I checked with the client’s insurance company and learned that Medicare never sent the claim to the insurance company.  The bill was from a local hospital and had an unpaid balance due of $858.20.

            I wrote to the hospital and requested that it send certain essential information directly to the claims department at the insurance company.  As long as the hospital cooperates, I am sure that the insurance company will pay on the bill according to the policy terms.  My work on this will save our client over $858 that she would have had to pay because of a mistake of the Medicare system if I had not helped her.

            I help senior citizen clients of this insurance agency to correct medical bill errors that are caused by mistakes in the Medicare system ALL THE TIME.  In less than eight years, I helped the clients of this one insurance agency in Indiana to save over one million dollars by canceling wrongful charges that were caused by mistakes in the Medicare system.  In past articles, I have given my calculations for why I believe that the Medicare system’s goofs are costing America’s senior citizens over one billion dollars per year. 

There are many problems with the Medicare system.  There needs to be a major overhaul of the Medicare and Medicaid systems.  President Obama, Senator Harry Reid, and their political allies are “trashing” the proposal of Congressman Paul Ryan, but offering no alternative plan.  Let me remind you that the “Obamacare” law robbed senior citizens on Medicare of half a trillion dollars in future Medicare benefits.

The “Obamacare” law increased the risk of Medicare going “bust” in the near future.  So, proposing changes to save Medicare for senior citizens is the “adult” thing to do.  Ignoring the problem will not make the problem go away.  So, my advice to President Obama, Senator Harry Reid, and their political allies is to GROW UP!

Note: Woodrow Wilcox is the senior medical bill case worker at Senior Care Insurance Services in Merrillville, Indiana.  That is the largest senior citizen oriented insurance agency in the Midwest.  For other articles by Wilcox, visit www.dakotavoice.com and search “Woodrow Wilcox”.

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Written on June 3, 2011 by

Woodrow Wilcox

Wilcox News Service

Breaking Exclusive: Crew Director uses own Father to levy FEC charges against Christine O’Donnell- Tea Party News

O’Donnell attacker, Melanie Sloan, uses her own father to file trumped up charges with FEC
The Freedomist has been investigating the charges levied against Tea Party champion Christine O’Donnell by the partisan group, CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington- which targets conservative leaders), led by Attorney Melanie Sloan.  In the course of that investigation, The Freedomist has learned that the group, CREW, filed a charge on behalf of a Leonard S Togman.  (see the official charges here from a PDF posted on the crew site: http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/45695
FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION In the matter of: Christine O’Donnell …
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Complainant Leonard S. Togman is a citizen of the United States, a registered voter, and a resident of the State of Delaware. As a registered voter, …
While Mr Togman may be a Delaware voter, what has been omitted from Melanie Sloan’s statements on this case, from the official complaint filed by the FEC,  and the official statements made by CREW, is that Leonard Togman is Melanie Sloan’s father.  Not only is Leonard Togman the father of Melanie Sloan, like Melanie Sloan herself, he also happens to be a heavy Biden supporter.  He is also a strong supporter of the man many people believe Christine O’Donnell will challenge in 2012, Thomas Carper.
This story is about much more than Tea Party challenger Christine O’Donnell, this is about the tactics being used by progressives to assault our Tea Party and Conservative Leaders over and over again with personal assaults, using accusations, false charges, and a myriad of Alinksy-like tactics to undermine the person, since they cannot stand in front of the American people and tell them to vote for their kind of candidate, ones who are beholden to big government, big unions, and political class elitism.  This is why we call on our Freedomist readers to help us get this story out about Melanie Sloan and her Father, political class elitists using our own government to attempt to destroy any Freedom-loving leader that dares stand in the way of their big government agenda.  How can you help”  You can link this site onto your own site.  You can tweet this story out.  But more importantly, you can do this:
contact the Chairman of the House Committee that oversees the FEC to ask them exactly why they have not dismissed this obvious partisan assault by the father of one of Christine O’Donnell’s political enemies, Melanie Sloan.
Go to his official House website here: http://lungren.house.gov/index.html
Call him at these numbers and tell Dan Lungren to ask the FEC why they are allowing this trumped up charge to go forward, and why they are not investigating Melanie Sloan for filing false charges:
(916) 859-9906: District Office
(202) 225-5716: Washington Office
Here is more information about this emerging controversy now surrounding the accuser herself, Melanie Sloan:
1)    Melanie Sloan’s father is Leonard S. Togman, a retired attorney from Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP.^[3]
2)    CREW’s Complaint against Christine O’Donnell is based upon — LEONARD S. TOGMAN (her father) — for “standing” of a Delaware voter.
3)     Leonard S. Togman’s campaign donations are almost exclusively donations to  JOE BIDEN and Thmoas Carper.

The Complaint against Christine O’Donnell is officially, formally brought on behalf of a Delaware voter LEONARD S. TOGMAN.
This same Leonard S. Togman has made 16 donations to Biden in the last decade, totaling $9,975, and 8 donations to Democratic Senator Tom Carper, whom everyone expects Christine O’Donnell to run against for the US Senate in 2012, totaling $4,500
67.7% of all of the Togman’s political donations have been to JOE BIDEN
30.5% of all of the Togman’s political donations have been to TOM CARPER, possible future opponent for Christine O’Donnell in 2012.
Melanie Sloan is using her father, a Biden-Carp supporter, as she is,  as the COMPLAINTANT in the FEC Complaint.
Here is the link to the pdf file that lists Leonard S. Togman as the official complainant in the charges trumped up by his daughter, Melanie Sloan:
http://freedomist.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ODonnell-Complaint.pdf

Here is a video of a CBS story just after the O’Donnell upset of Rino Mike Castle featuring Melanie Sloan.  Note that CBS refers to Crew (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics) as a non-artisan group urging the FEC to investigate O’Donnell, never mentioning CREW was using Melanie Sloan’s father, Leonard S Togman to trigger the investigation, filing a bogus complaint for his daughter, and in support of Joe Biden and Thomas Carper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUGqzOC3DnU&feature=related

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A Successful Banquet and A Historical Year

A Successful Banquet and A Historic Year In the advent of a new year, we pause for reflection with sincere appreciation.   Our remarkable efforts this year comes to an end with the reaffirmation of the refreshing Constitutional values that unite us.  The Northern Virginia Tea Party continues to promote the basic principles we all embrace.  While the movement continues to grow, our responsibility remains more profound.  While it is accurate to acknowledge that in any relationship change is a constant and while internally we continue to advance the principles that unite us; the debate of ideals is welcome as long as civility remains a constant.  Our recent yearly banquet was a rousing success and demonstrated how resolve and resiliency remains the hallmark of the phenomena that is our organization.  Throughout the year such events with our local elected leaders such as Governor Bob McDonnell, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli or Delegate Bob Marshall and other possible candidates of the future such as national figures former Governor and Senator George Allen, Jamie Radtke, and Delaware's Christine O'Donnell clearly demonstrate that in our carefully crafted presentations, our actions and involvements attract a national media. Our involvements continue to focus on the mandates of our great commonwealth of Virginia and new legislation that can promote our values or cripple our purpose.  Our outreach remains bi partisan in direction and we continue to extend an open hand to all legal citizens of Virginia and embrace every race, creed and color.  It remains extended to both sides of the political isle and respectfully invites a dialogue that continues to allow our Patriots to hear how "You" can show "Us" how you will further support the constitution, promote the return to federalism,  demonstrate fiscal conservatism and embrace patriotism. The New Year will bring new focus and new organization as we invite all who seek a more responsibility from our commonwealth and the nation to join us as "We The People" continue to preserve the union that so many great veterans and Patriots have fought, bled and died for yesterday, today and tomorrow. Sincerely, Ron Wilcox Lead Organizer Northern Virginia Tea Party http://northernvniateaparty.com

Wife of Clarence Thomas Joins Tea Party Movement | The Afro-American Newspapers | Your Community. Your History. Your News.

Wife of Clarence Thomas Joins Tea Party Movement | The Afro-American Newspapers | Your Community. Your History. Your News.

The recent announcement that Virginia Thomas, the wife of Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is wading into the conservative brew of the tea party movement has many within those ranks excited.

Thomas’ lobbying group, Liberty Central was formed in January to “serve the big tent of the conservative movement,” according to its Web site. It has already received the support of several high-profile conservative leaders. On the group’s Web site, it features a message from former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

“Ginni can help channel the frustration felt by millions across America at the current course of our country,” said Rumsfeld. “Leaders committed to smaller government, fiscal prudence, and a strong national defense will be returning to Washington, D.C., and I am confident that Ginni Thomas will be part of the reason it will happen.”

Thomas attended a rally denouncing the House of Representatives’ health care reform bill and is scheduled to attend another rally in Atlanta on April 15.
Several local tea party leaders said Thomas’ involvement gives the movement a stamp of legitimacy.

“Of course [her involvement] helps,” said Tony Passaro, organizer of the Federation of Maryland Tea Party Patriots. “As the wife of a Supreme Court justice she has a lot of visibility. Her involvement increases the visibility of the whole movement.”

Ron Wilcox, head of the Alexandria Tea Party in Virginia, agreed with Passaro as he excitedly spoke about her involvement.

“This is wonderful. I’m delighted that she’ll be doing such a thing,” Wilcox said. “It is one of the number of steps that has come forward that has advanced the credibility and the viability of the tea party movement.”

There is a sentiment, however, that her move is a further setback for Clarence Thomas in the eyes of many African Americans.

Clarence Thomas’ conservative past and involvement in the Anita Hill scandal has always been a source of controversy within the African-American community. Some say this may be the icing on the cake.

“[Clarence Thomas] is already alienated from the Black community and I don’t know how much further he can get,” said Ronald Walters, director of the African American Leadership Center, and professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland College Park. “His wife played a very early role in his confirmation so this is really not surprising to me.”

Walters added that it is a little unnerving that that the wife of a Supreme Court Justice is joining this movement given the “vicious conservatism” he believes dogs the tea party movement. Given the Thomases’ contacts within the Republican Party, he thinks it could be part of a Republican strategy to gain more support.

“There’s an attempt on the part of the Republican Party to incorporate the tea party movement,” said Walters. “It’s possible that she’s becoming involved in that effort.”
However, members of the movement dismiss that concern as they believe she’s just expressing her rights as a U.S. citizen.

“She has every right to express her political opinion,” said Wilcox. “She’s not a Supreme Court Justice.

“People have their own interests and want to advance them. She shouldn’t be hobbled by her husband’s profession.”

Alexandria Times | There’s a Tea Party in Alexandria?

Alexandria Times | There’s a Tea Party in Alexandria?

There’s a Tea Party in Alexandria?

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4 2010
By Derrick Perkins
Republicans enjoyed a wave of election success nationally Tuesday, but with local gains non-existent, self-described “Tea Partiers” now turn their attention to city and state issues.


Given the much-hyped anti-incumbency backlash heading into the 2010 mid term elections, AJ Kearney, co-organizer of The Alexandria Tea Party, expected fiscally conservative voters with an eye toward promoting limited government and free markets would give 10-term Democratic Congressman Jim Moran a run for his money.

Not long after polls opened, he realized that wasn’t going to happen.

“We were surprised by [Moran’s] margin of victory,” he said. “I was standing in front of a polling station handing out literature and by 11 a.m. I started to think ‘there’s a lot of Democrats coming by here.’”

Republican challenger Patrick Murray picked up 37.3 percent of the electorate, not nearly enough to match Moran, who earned 116, 269 votes or 61.01 percent of the ballots cast. While Kearney expected a better showing for Murray, Moran’s victory at the polls didn’t come out of the blue.

There are two things to remember, he says: Democrats have had a lot of practice preparing for elections in what’s considered a safe seat for the party and local Tea Party enthusiasts didn’t have a lot of time to learn in the run up to the vote.

With the post-election hangover still settling in, Kearney worries fellow activists will lose interest, put away their placards and call it a year. There’s work to be done on the local level, even in a safe district for Democrats, he said.

“We’re trying to offset it by making sure people understand we’ve got a number of things on the docket we need their help on,” Kearney said. “There’s a definite movement, at least in the Virginia Tea Party, to basically get more local. Our focus is not just on national elections, it’s more concentrated on the state and local levels.”

At the moment, that means supporting Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s legal challenge of the recently passed health care reform bill and working with other Tea Party groups promoting a small government agenda at the state level, he said.

They’re also extending an olive branch of sorts to their political opponents. Former Alexandria resident and founder of the Northern Virginia Tea Party, Ron Wilcox wants to bridge the partisan divide with incumbents like Moran.

“The question isn’t just are with the politicians, but are they with us,” he said. “Each of those people has a vote on Capitol Hill, whether we agree with them or not. We respect the voice of the American people on these elections and we are going to continue to urge our elected officials to return to limited government.”

When 2012 rolls around, Michael Ginsberg, 8th District Republican Party chair, expects to see many of the same faces and local groups turn out to volunteer, man phone banks and go door-to-door. Until the issues driving the grassroots activism disappear, they’ll stick around on the political stage, he said.

“Certainly, they were an enormous asset to our candidates,” Ginsberg said. “I see them as staying around for as long as these issues are active. I don’t think the issues that are motivating the Tea Party will have gone away [by 2012]. They will remain active.”

It’s too soon to see whether Alexandria’s Tea Party organization will back a candidate in the next election cycle, Kearney said. He won’t put an exact figure on the number of Tea Partiers in the city — a couple of hundred, he says — but they’re preparing for the future.

He laughed at Moran’s acceptance speech analysis of Murray’s campaign as doomed by “extremist Tea Party views.”

“We can’t tell them don’t do that, we just got to concentrate on organizing,” Kearney said. “We just think we have a better ideas.”