Jim Davis Ozark Bioregion, USA, Planet Gaia http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=141735
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> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Sent: Mon, February 8, 2010 5:21:09 PM
> Subject: [lbo-talk] platform
>
> [The use of "productive" is classically populist, but the rest of this is pretty
> standard-issue right-wing boilerplate. How is someone who believes these sorts
> of things amenable to sweet-talking from the left?]
>
> IOWA TEA PARTY PATRIOTS: “Whereas, the Federal Government...continues with
> failed so-called 'bailouts’ that force productive members of the economy and
> citizens to finance unproductive businesses, is advancing dangerous 'Cap &
> Trade’ legislation that will destroy millions of jobs, skyrocket prices, and
> further damage the American Economy; is advancing hugely expensive and
> inefficient government run health care; is using one-time so-called “stimulus”
> money to fund ongoing expenses; continues to place much greater tax burdens on
> their citizens... Be it resolved, as a tax-paying constituent, consider this a
> Petition of Grievance as a formal protest against these policies and the
> politicians who advance such destructive agendas.”
>
>
>
> [On February 19th, 2009, Rick Santelli jokingly discussed holding a Chicago Tea
> Party in protest of the mortgage bailouts]
>
> We envision a country where our leaders preserve and defend Constitutional
> principles through a limited federal and state government, a decrease in
> government spending, a cessation of over-taxation, a continuance of capitalism
> in its truest form, and a return to the principles and values that our founding
> fathers espoused when they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred
> honors and our goal is to encourage all to do the same.
>
>
>
> From Tea New York Posted 2/8/2010 9:38:24 AM
>
> Hello Fellow Reformer --
>
> TEA New York and the TP Coalition of Western New York is actively involved in an
> effort to
> recruit Carl Paladino for Governor. A developer with Ellicott Development Co.,
> Carl is an
> outspoken, no-nonsense guy with a crass eloquence, the means and a proven record
> to
> get his message out -- which mirrors that of the Tea Party Movement. Carl has
> just the
> kind of voice we need at this critical juncture in time to address the enormous
> level of
> dysfunction in NYS government.
>
> We need your feedback. Please let us know if a Carl Paladino candidacy is
> something
> your group can support. Carl has not yet made up his mind as he needs to know if
> the
> larger Upsate area will get behind him.
>
> Carl Paladino here:
> http://www.carlpaladino.com/
>
> Radio Interview here:
> http://www.wben.com/Paladino-Considers-Independent-Run-For-Governor/6276852
>
> In the News here:
> http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/944284.html
> http://albanysinsanity.wnymedia.net/blogs/2010/02/02/carl-paladino-for-governor/#comments
> http://teanewyork.com/
>
> Please contact us ASAP at info at teanewyork.com
> and let us know where you stand.
> Thank you!
> TeaNewYork.com
> Jul @ 716.444.8908
>
>
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