Comments on: Arkansas Tea Party Movement: Now What?

By: Arkansas Tea Party Animals At It Again | The Arkansas Project

Arkansas Tea Party Animals At It Again | The Arkansas Project — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:53:29 +0000

[...] this month, I wrote a lengthy guest perspective piece for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on the Tea Party phenomenon in A…, which includes a consideration of the challenges the movement will face in making the jump into a [...]

By: Bill from Sheridan

Bill from Sheridan — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:56:36 +0000

David,

Your mother had tears streaming down her face when she read your column this morning. She had to put out a fresh Pall Mall she had just lit to regain her composure. We’re very proud of you boy.

By: Rob Richard

Rob Richard — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:07:32 +0000

Joanne, I hope you understand the reason for contempt for your group coming from the NWA Arkansas group is that when you do something, you do it in a fashion that says “This is THE movement.” In fact, what you are doing is not bad, but how you characterize it threatens others.

You could do away with this altogether by simply saying “What we’re doing is…” But you choose to state it as “The reason for the Tea Party Movement is…” and the fact is that the Tea Party Movement itself is about so much more than just identifying candidates.

I’m very pleased to be a part of what you are doing, but at the same time I must say that I am proud to be a part of the Tea Party Movement, which is so much more than just what you and your group is doing, wholly.

If your group would stick to “we’re doing this as our own group” and stop identifying yourself as the entire movement, all the contempt should go away and I bet the NWA group would embrace you, if not flat out endorse you.

By posting what you just did in the way you did post it, whether intentional or not, with your words, you have claimed attorney over the entire movement itself when in fact your group is PART OF the movement, not the entire movement itself.

By: Joanne in Arkansas

Joanne in Arkansas — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:49:19 +0000

The Reason for the Tea Party Movement is to locate, support individuals that are fiscally responsible candidates. We are so pleased that we had 2 of our members of the Arkansas Tea Party, Inc. in Little Rock, Arkansas announced their conviction to run for office at our June 15th “Rally on the River”. Rep. Dan Green Greenberg for State Senate and Tom Cox for U.S. Senate in 2010. We are still looking for many more candidates. We are starting with the dogcatcher’s job and working our way up to the President in 2012. If you feel you are a person our movement would like to support, please contact us at http://www.arkansasteaparty.com or arkansasteaparty.ning.com/

By: Rob Richard

Rob Richard — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:25:10 +0000

It is my understanding that Tom Cox is now a US Senate candidate and no longer an organizer. I may be wrong, but this is how I interpret his “stepping down.”

I see this as a dis-service to those who look to Tom Cox for direction. I strongly encourage anyone reading this to sign up at campaignforliberty dot com and consider being part of a well organized grassroots revolution movement.

I am the Second District Regional Coordinator for the Arkansas chapter of the Campaign for Liberty. As an organization we are organized on the county and state level in all 50 states and we have a national headquarters. We currently have active chapters in Garland, Pulaski, and Faulkner Counties. It is my focus to get chapters started in Saline, Conway, Van Buren, White, Yell, and Perry Counties by the end of this year.

Anyone concerned with the direction America is headed and eager for real change, a change in our viewpoint as to what the role of government in our personal and economic lives should be, join us.

“The time has come to act. May future generations look back on our work and say that these were men and women who, in a moment of great crisis, stood up to the politicians, the opinion-molders, and the establishment, and saved their country.”– Congressman Ron Paul

By: nick cochran

nick cochran — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:50:00 +0000

I just finished the article…Started at about 8am. Wow that was long. I had to use a book mark.

Seriously, that was a good piece. I especially like the two paragraphs about the conflicts with in the movement. It was very constructive and I believe it will alert us to the need to work together and embrace conflict while protecting our goals.

By: David Kinkade

David Kinkade — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:11:40 +0000

Cameron,
I wonder if maybe they shouldn’t slap an advisory sticker on the front page that says “WARNING: This is gonna be really long. Do you really wanna read this?” It would be a public service.
D.

By: Cameron Bluff

Cameron Bluff — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:06:24 +0000

Holy Crapping Crap David…almost the entire front page of the Perspectives section and 3/4 of the back page? Excellent article. Well written. Thoughtful. Provocative. Coherent. Absorbing. Intelligent. Engrossing. OK, you get the point, it was all those ‘ative and ‘ing and ‘ful words. Too bad they wasted all that space on the left hand column of the page. You would have better filled that space as well.
This morning, I raced out to the curb, dragged my paper out from under the spider webs in the hedge at the base of my ARDEMGAZ yellow paper box, and raced back into the house, full of anticipation. I ripped the wet and spider filled yellow wrapper from my DG, threw aside the drivel-filled sections of B and C and even the Help-Wanted ads, finally reaching the section I sought, Perspectives. Not wanting to waste time, I simply yanked the section open and snapped to the back page expecting to find four or five columns on the upper half of the page. Imagine my shock, I was staring at the last three quarters of the story. Indeed, I was immediately informed the writings on this page were but “continued from Page 1H.”

Perhaps it is time you make public your considerations to take on Blanche. “Kincade for Senate” has a certain cachet to it, don’t you think?