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- Concealed carry bill heads to Walker for signature
- New tea group is ‘somewhat of a split’ from South Florida Tea Party
- GOP hopefuls play up tea party credibility, but it carries risks
- Unlikely pair ACLU, tea party win free speech case
- Blacks Defend Tea Party Against Racist Claims
- Ron Paul’s latest victory in a straw poll shows ardency of his supporters
- Perry adds anti-groping bill to special session
- Obama’s Food Police in Staggering Crackdown on Market to Kids
- Cook Co., IL taxpayers owe $108 billion
| Concealed carry bill heads to Walker for signature Posted: 22 Jun 2011 07:22 AM PDT By MARY SPICUZZA, The Chippewa Herald MADISON — Dylan Fredericks doesn't carry a gun, but he plans to after Gov. Scott Walker signs into law legislation making it legal to carry concealed weapons in Wisconsin. And the employee of PT Firearms in Cross Plains suspects he's not alone. "We've really seen an uptick in business," he said. "The past week we've probably sold about 15 different guns." But Matt Havighurst of Madison said he doesn't like the bill "at all." Havighurst, 41, who was playing with his 3-year-old son, Noah, at the lakeshore at James Madison Park said if the measure passes the government should send out free signs saying "no guns allowed" to anyone who doesn't want them on their premises. "What are you going to do at a park?" he said of such signs. "Put them all over at every entrance?" The GOP-controlled Assembly approved the bill on a bipartisan vote of 68-27. To read more, visit: http://chippewa.com/news/state-and-regional/article_a505c54a-9c6c-11e0-8dd2-001cc4c03286.html?mode=story |
| New tea group is ‘somewhat of a split’ from South Florida Tea Party Posted: 22 Jun 2011 07:19 AM PDT By George Bennett,The Palm Beach Post Pam Wohlschlegel, who quit Monday as Palm Beach County director of the South Florida Tea Party, announced this morning that she's heading a new group called the Palm Beach County Tea Party. Wohlshclegel resigned after South Florida Tea Party Chairman Everett Wilkinson ripped the House GOP Medicare overhaul plan as a "public policy nightmare." Wilkinson's comments were the latest example of his tendency to butt heads with others in the tea party movement. In a video Q&A about her new group, Wohlschlegel says the Palm Beach Tea Party wants to "work more cooperatively and coordinate with other like-minded groups…Given that several of us who are forming this group did start out with the South Florida Tea Party, I guess it does constitute somewhat of a split, but we do wish Everett well in what he does. We just want to take a slightly different tack to meeting the same goals." To read more, visit: http://www.postonpolitics.com/2011/06/new-tea-group-is-somewhat-of-a-split-from-south-florida-tea-party-and-wilkinson/comment-page-1/ |
| GOP hopefuls play up tea party credibility, but it carries risks Posted: 22 Jun 2011 07:13 AM PDT
WINDHAM, N.H. — When this town’s Republican activists walked into the local library auditorium one evening recently, they were greeted by a huge poster urging them to “participate in your freedom” and reminding them that “America has a date with liberty.” The poster touted GOP presidential candidate Gary Johnson, the former New Mexico governor, but it could have been a pitch for almost any of the Republican 2012 White House hopefuls. Because the path to many a Republican voter’s heart this year is to pledge fervent allegiance to the Constitution – often specifically to the “states rights” guarantee of the 10th Amendment – and to vow to uphold personal freedom. The strategy of playing to this sentiment, closely linked to the tea party grassroots conservative movement, also comes with a risk. While wooing conservative true believers could help Republican candidates in the early primary and caucus states such as Iowa and South Carolina, it’s less likely to mean victory in New Hampshire, which traditionally holds the nation’s first primary. Here such talk could very well alienate the independent voters who are crucial to victory in this New England state. “I don’t think majority opinion goes as far as some of the tea party people go,” said Travis Blais, Windham Republican chairman. Yet most GOP presidential candidates are eager to proclaim tea party-like sentiments. To read more, visit: |
| Unlikely pair ACLU, tea party win free speech case Posted: 22 Jun 2011 07:08 AM PDT REDDING, Calif. (AP) — A pair of unlikely political allies has succeeded in sinking an ordinance that restricted when and where pamphlets could be handed out in front of a Northern California city library. Shasta County Judge Monica Marlow agreed with the American Civil Liberties Union and the North State Tea Party Alliance that Redding’s new policy was unconstitutional. The groups said free speech protections trumped rules requiring reservations for leafleting, limiting where information could be distributed and prohibiting pamphleteers from approaching patrons. The Record Searchlight of Redding reports Marlow on Monday affirmed her tentative ruling that found the ordinance violated the state constitution. To read more, visit: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Unlikely-pair-ACLU-tea-party-win-free-speech-case-1433595.php |
| Blacks Defend Tea Party Against Racist Claims Posted: 21 Jun 2011 10:19 AM PDT By: Paul Strand, CBN.com African Americans across the country are rising up to defend the Tea Party movement, which has faced charges their ranks were riddled with racists since rising to prominence. Now many minorities are standing up for the Tea Party, saying there’s no proof. Actress and activist Janeane Garofalo threw down the liberal gauntlet while blasting Tea Party motives on MSNBC in 2009 “It’s about hating a black man in the White House. That is racism straight up. This is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks,” she said. A YouTube video titled “Tea Party Racism” shows signs seen at past Tea Party events. They include: Obama as a witch doctor To read more, visit: http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/politics/2011/June/Blacks-Defend-Tea-Party-Against-Racist-Claims-/ |
| Ron Paul’s latest victory in a straw poll shows ardency of his supporters Posted: 21 Jun 2011 10:13 AM PDT By Michael Muskal, LATimes.com Ron Paul has captured another straw poll, at the Republican Leadership Conference, and while that gives him some bragging rights, the victory is just a minor step, though it explains the political muscle of a small but fiercely dedicated group in any political process. Paul, a Republican congressman from Texas and a favorite of libertarians, captured 612 votes Saturday at the GOP conference that attracted 2,000 delegates to New Orleans. Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who did not attend the conservative shindig, finished a surprisingly strong second with 382 votes. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and businessman Herman Cain placed third and fourth, respectively, with the rest of the fractured GOP field below triple digits. Straw votes or polls are a special hybrid between scientific surveys and general elections. A scientific poll is based on a sample that professes to offer some insight into how the general electorate will vote. But a straw poll is merely the counting of anyone who shows up at that moment. The number of voters is generally small and self-selected, so there is no way to extrapolate the results to a larger body like the general electorate. To use an example from the movie “Field of Dreams,” it is similar to the voice that tells the hero, Ray, “If you build it, he will come.” Hold a straw poll and dedicated partisans will come to cast a ballot for their choice, often Ron Paul. Paul has done extremely well in straw polls, winning twice at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2010 and this year before Saturday’s victory. His supporters are ardent in going to great lengths to express their preference for the 75-year-old congressman. To read more, visit: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-ron-paul-straw-polls-20110620,0,1401651.story |
| Perry adds anti-groping bill to special session Posted: 21 Jun 2011 09:49 AM PDT From: blog.chron.com Gov. Rick Perry announced he had added legislation that would make it illegal for TSA agents to engage in "intrusive touching" at airports security checkpoints without probable cause to the list of items for the legislature to consider during the special session. The measure had previously failed to muster enough support in the Texas Senate to come up for a vote because the Justice Department wrote a scathing memo against the bill, which threatened legal action against the state, and the measure became enmeshed in Senate politics. There are questions about what impact the legislation might have since airport security is a federal matter. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who was accused of lobbying against the bill in May said he was "pleased" by Perry's decision. "I'm very pleased that Governor Perry agreed to add this legislation to his Special Session call," Dewhurst said. "Addressing unreasonable and unlawful searches of innocent travelers by some TSA employees is an issue that affects all Texans who use air travel, and it should not wait until next Session." Before the Senate took up the bill initially, the Justice Department sent a letter to state advising that passage of the bill would result in immediate legal action by the federal government and that it could result in airline flights to and from Texas being delayed or cancelled. To read more, visit: http://blog.chron.com/texaspolitics/2011/06/perry-adds-anti-tsa-bill-to-special-session/ |
| Obama’s Food Police in Staggering Crackdown on Market to Kids Posted: 21 Jun 2011 09:46 AM PDT By: Audrey Hudson, Humanevents.com Tony the Tiger, some NASCAR drivers and cookie-selling Girl Scouts will be out of a job unless grocery manufacturers agree to reinvent a vast array of their products to satisfy the Obama administration's food police. Either retool the recipes to contain certain levels of sugar, sodium and fats, or no more advertising and marketing to tots and teenagers, say several federal regulatory agencies. The same goes for restaurants. It's not just the usual suspected foods that are being targeted, such a thin mint cookies sold by scouts or M&Ms and Snickers, which sponsor cars in the Sprint Cup, but pretty much everything on a restaurant menu. Although the intent of the guidelines is to combat childhood obesity, foods that are low in calories, fat, and some considered healthy foods, are also targets, including hot breakfast cereals such as oatmeal, pretzels, popcorn, nuts, yogurt, wheat bread, bagels, diet drinks, fruit juice, tea, bottled water, milk and sherbet. Food industries are in an uproar over the proposal written by the Federal Trade Commission, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. To read more, visit: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=44343 |
| Cook Co., IL taxpayers owe $108 billion Posted: 21 Jun 2011 09:42 AM PDT Posted by Ann W., chicagobusiness.com The average Chicago household now owes a staggering $63,525 to cover local government debt, according to Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas. Suburbanites are deeply in the red, too, with the average household owing $32,901, according to the treasurer. Among the biggest reasons: $25 billion in unfunded pension liabilities. In comments after an appearance Tuesday before the Civic Federation, a watchdog group that has released somewhat similar numbers in recent years, Ms. Pappas said she was “stunned” to learn that county taxpayers on the whole owe more than $108 billion toward local debt. The figures were derived from a recently passed debt-disclosure law. Ms. Pappas said the numbers have never before been compiled in this fashion. “This goes well beyond big cities,” she said. “These fiscal problems permeate townships, villages, school districts, park districts, fire protection districts and more, and the taxpayers are on the hook.” Overall, she said, municipalities have $61 billion in debt. School districts are $20 billion in debt. Cook County owes $18 billion and various sanitary districts collectively owe $4.4 billion. |
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