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- Florida’s GOP Senate candidates court tea party vote at Pinellas forum
- Tea Party Plans Its Own Debt Panel
- Amish clash with NY over electronic tax filing
- Elderly woman asked to remove adult diaper during TSA search
- Feds Plan Stealth Survey on Access to Doctors
- Tea Party Presidential Debate
- Bachmann tied with Romney in Iowa
| Florida’s GOP Senate candidates court tea party vote at Pinellas forum Posted: 26 Jun 2011 07:45 PM PDT By David DeCamp, St. Petersburg Times PINELLAS PARK — The route to a tea party-led political forum ultimately required turning to the right. That posed little trouble Sunday to four U.S. Senate candidates seeking the Republican Party’s nomination to run against incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson next year. The top GOP candidates hued to conservative planks — too much federal spending, too much regulation, too much globalism — and the chance of attracting Tampa Bay area tea party activists. With each candidate polishing his conservative appeal, it was a place where President Barack Obama-led health care changes should be repealed and where spending should be axed in some federal departments to stave off the spiraling debt crisis. It also was where global warming caused by humans was theory, and where the United Nations’ agenda could be creeping too closely to controlling local government. “I don’t believe in man-made global warming. I don’t buy into the alarmist mentality out there that the world is coming to an end,” said candidate Adam Hasner, a former Florida House majority leader from Boca Raton. He chalked up climate change to an “agenda” by some to control the economy and make the country fit in with global wishes. The applause came quickly. To read more, visit: http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/elections/floridas-gop-senate-candidates-court-tea-party-vote-at-pinellas-forum/1177502 |
| Tea Party Plans Its Own Debt Panel Posted: 26 Jun 2011 07:41 PM PDT By KATE ZERNIKE, The New York Times While the Tea Party movement has led the charge for cutting the national debt, its supporters have often struggled to explain how, exactly, they would do so. Now some are out to change that, joining a Tea Party debt commission that plans to hold hearings over the summer, in the hopes of delivering recommendations to lawmakers by January. The commission is being organized by FreedomWorks, the libertarian advocacy group that helped grow the Tea Party movement and mobilize it for the midterm elections. And its recommendations are likely to line up with the goals of that group, which in turn tend to reflect those of libertarian organizations like the Cato Institute. (FreedomWorks' motto is Lower Taxes, Less Government, More Freedom, and it has worked against environmental regulations and for increased privatization of health care.) "If you look if you look at the landscape in Washington, D.C., there's a lot of Democrats who control two-thirds of the process who are now sitting on their hands, waiting to point fingers at Republicans who propose something, and there's too many Republicans who are afraid that the public won't understand a serious proposal to solve the budget deficit," said Matt Kibbe, the group's president. "We think, like with the first days of the Tea Party movement, that the only way we will ever reduce the debt and balance the budget is if America beats Washington and Tea Party activists take over this process, take over the public debate and engage the American people in the hard work of making tough choices." FreedomWorks held training for about 150 activists from 30 states at its headquarters in Washington over the weekend, with sessions dedicated to educating them about the budget proposals by Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky and Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, both Republicans who strongly embrace libertarian economic principles. The activists, along with FreedomWorks staff, came up with parameters for their budget proposals, declaring that they would have to balance the federal budget within 10 years, reduce federal spending to 18 percent of the gross domestic product, reduce the national debt to no more than 66 percent of the G.D.P., assume that revenue accounts for no more than 19 percent of the G.D.P., reduce federal spending by at least $300 billion in the first year and reduce federal spending by at least $9 trillion over 10 years. To read more, visit: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/tea-party-plans-its-own-debt-panel/ |
| Amish clash with NY over electronic tax filing Posted: 25 Jun 2011 07:34 PM PDT By Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal DEPEYSTER, N.Y. — New York state rules that require business owners to file sales taxes electronically are running up against the anti-technology beliefs of some Amish communities. Machine shop owner Enos Yoder says that because he is Amish he doesn’t use electricity, including phones and computers. He also has no Social Security number. Yoder tells the Watertown Daily Times that he wants to pay his taxes by mail, as he has done in the past. But as of this year the state Department of Taxation and Finance is requiring that sales taxes be filed electronically. To read more, visit: http://online.wsj.com/article/APe69177b1184c42eb84eb8f9106e22efb.html |
| Elderly woman asked to remove adult diaper during TSA search Posted: 25 Jun 2011 07:33 PM PDT By LAUREN SAGE REINLIE, NewsHerald.com A woman has filed a complaint with federal authorities over how her elderly mother was treated at Northwest Florida Regional Airport last weekend. Jean Weber of Destin filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security after her 95-year-old mother was detained and extensively searched last Saturday while trying to board a plane to fly to Michigan to be with family members during the final stages of her battle with leukemia. Her mother, who was in a wheelchair, was asked to remove an adult diaper in order to complete a pat-down search. "It's something I couldn't imagine happening on American soil," Weber said Friday. "Here is my mother, 95 years old, 105 pounds, barely able to stand, and then this." Sari Koshetz, a spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration in Miami, said she could not comment on specific cases to protect the privacy of those involved. "The TSA works with passengers to resolve any security alarms in a respectful and sensitive manner," she said. Weber's mother entered the airport's security checkpoint in a wheelchair because she was not stable enough to walk through, Weber said. Wheelchairs trigger certain protocols, including pat-downs and possible swabbing for explosives, Koshetz said. To read more, visit: http://www.newsherald.com/news/mother-94767-search-adult.html |
| Feds Plan Stealth Survey on Access to Doctors Posted: 25 Jun 2011 07:29 PM PDT By ROBERT PEAR, The New York Times WASHINGTON — Alarmed by a shortage of primary care doctors, Obama administration officials are recruiting a team of "mystery shoppers" to pose as patients, call doctors' offices and request appointments to see how difficult it is for people to get care when they need it. The administration says the survey will address a "critical public policy problem": the increasing shortage of primary care doctors, including specialists in internal medicine and family practice. It will also try to discover whether doctors are accepting patients with private insurance while turning away those in government health programs that pay lower reimbursement rates. Federal officials predict that more than 30 million Americans will gain coverage under the health care law passed last year. "These newly insured Americans will need to seek out new primary care physicians, further exacerbating the already growing problem" of a shortage of physicians in the United States, the Department of Health and Human Services said in a description of the project prepared for the White House. Plans for the survey have riled many doctors because the secret shoppers will not identify themselves as working for the government. "I don't like the idea of the government snooping," said Dr. Raymond Scalettar, an internist in Washington. "It's a pernicious practice — Big Brother tactics, which should be opposed." According to government documents obtained from Obama administration officials, the mystery shoppers will call medical practices and ask if doctors are accepting new patients and, if so, how long the wait would be. The government is eager to know whether doctors give different answers to callers depending on whether they have public insurance, like Medicaid, or private insurance, like Blue Cross and Blue Shield. To read more, visit: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/health/policy/27docs.html?_r=1&hp |
| Posted: 25 Jun 2011 07:23 PM PDT
More Than 100 Local Tea Party Groups Join The Tea Party Express And CNN For Republican Presidential Debate. The Tea Party Express (www.TeaPartyExpress.org) announced today that more than 100 local tea party, 912 and conservative groups representing every state in the nation have signed on to cosponsor the groundbreaking Tea Party Presidential Debate on September 12, 2011. The debate will take place in Tampa, Florida – a crucial state in the Republican presidential primary and the 2012 election. Earlier this year, it was announced that Tea Party Express was teaming up with CNN to host the only national Tea Party debate, which will have a sharp focus on the core tea party issues of fiscal responsibility. Republican presidential candidates vying for the support of the tea party movement and would focus exclusively on the core tea party issues of fiscal responsibility. To read more, visit: http://www.lvtsg.com/imho/2011/06/tea-party-presidential-debate/ |
| Bachmann tied with Romney in Iowa Posted: 25 Jun 2011 07:15 PM PDT By JENNIFER JACOBS, The Des Moines Register Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann sit atop the standings in the year's first Des Moines Register Iowa Poll on the Republican presidential field. Romney, the national front-runner and a familiar face in Iowa after his 2008 presidential run, attracts support from 23 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers. Bachmann, who will officially kick off her campaign in Iowa on Monday, nearly matches him, with 22 percent. "She's up there as a real competitor and a real contender," said Republican pollster Randy Gutermuth, who is unaffiliated with any of the presidential candidates. "This would indicate that she's going to be a real player in Iowa." Former Godfather's CEO Herman Cain, who has never held public office but has found a following among tea party supporters, comes in third, with 10 percent. The other candidates tested register in single digits: former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and Texas Rep. Ron Paul, 7 percent each; former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, 6 percent; former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, 4 percent; and former Utah Gov. and ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, 2 percent. Pawlenty has spent 26 days in Iowa during this election cycle, has hired an A-list team of Iowa campaign operatives and was the first major candidate to air television ads in Iowa. To read more, visit: http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2011/06/25/iowa-poll-romney-bachmann-in-lead-cain-third-others-find-little-traction/ |
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