Arizona Tea Party Patriots number over 20,000

ArizonaTeaParty.com announces that over 20,000 attend TEA Parties in Arizona last Thursday on April 15, 2010.

0ver 20,000 Arizona Tea Party Patriots
Attend 14 Statewide Tax Day Tea Parties on April 15, 2010

• Phoenix Area – Americans for Prosperity……………7,000
• Tucson Tea Party……………………………………….………. 3,000
• East Valley Tea Party (Gilbert)…………………………….2,500
• Colorado River Tea Party (Yuma)………………………..2,000
• Prescott Tea Party…………………………………….………….2,000
• San Tan Valley Tea Party (Queen Creek)…………..….1,000
• Lake Havasu City Tea Party……………………………..…..1,000
• Green Valley Tea Party…………………………………….……..450
• 912 Project Cochise County (Sierra Vista)…………….…400
• Mohave County Tea Party (Bullhead City)………………375
• Flagstaff Tea Party……………………………………………..…….200
• White Mountain Conservatives (Show Low)……………200
• Willcox Tea Party……………………………………………….……..96
• Graham County Tea Party (Safford)……………………….…75
• Submitted Total: 20,296

Click to read a summary on ArizonaTeaParty.com to read a short summary of each event.

HONK AT MITCHELL TEA Party

No Washington Take-Over of Health Care!

Saturday, March 13, Noon to 3pm

Corner of Scottsdale and Camelback Roads

Drive by Harry Mitchell’s office and honk.  Gather on the SE corner of that intersection with signs.  Keep the pressure on by calling him at his

Scottsdale number  480-946-2411 or

DC number 202-225-2190.

Hosts: Tea Party Patriots of Scottsdale.

More info: http://teapartypatriotsofscottsdale.org

Are You Standing with the Texans?

Watch Palin’s Tea Party Speech Saturday on FOX

For you Sarah Palin supporters… just wanted you to know that she will be speaking at a National Tea Party Convention on Saturday night and FOX News is going to cover it live.  She’ll be speaking at 8pm CST which, is 7pm our time in AZ.

IT AIN’T OVER YET!

Although, health care insurance reform bills have passed in both the House and the Senate, it ain’t over yet!

The normal course of events would be a conference committee with appointed members to work on resolving the differences between the two bills, then a vote  in both chambers to pass.  Of course, normal doesn’t exist any longer.   We now live in a very strange world of hope and change.

The easiest path to get this legislation passed is ping-pong—sending the bill back and forth between the two chambers.  This basically eliminates any GOP influence or ability to stop it.   The House will take the Senate bill, make their amendments and vote.  Once it passes the House, it goes back to the Senate for the last vote.

Since the initial votes were so narrow, there is a chance to defeat this bill.  Below is the action request from the National Tea Party:

Dear Fellow Tea Party Patriots,

We still have a chance to defeat ObamaCare. We need to target the House members that voted for the Stupak Amendment. We feel that the Congressmen and Congresswomen listed below are particularly susceptible to changing their vote.

The Senate version does not include the Stupak language and it is highly likely that the Senate version will prevail in negotiations. Some House members had refused to vote for the Pelosi health care bill until the Stupak amendment was added.

We feel that this is a “weakness” that can be exploited in order to defeat this bill and prevent government take over of our health care system.

Please contact the following House members and ask them to vote “no” on the healthcare bill. The bill passed the House with a razor thin margin of 220-215.

Targeted House Members

Rep. Steve Driehaus, Ohio, 1st

• DC Office Number: (202) 225-2216, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-3012
• Local Office Number: (513) 684-2723, Local Fax Number: (513) 421-8722

Rep. Brad Ellsworth, Indiana, 8th

• DC Office Number: (202) 225-4636, DC Office Fax: (202) 225-3284
• Local Office Number: (812) 465-6484, Local Fax Number: (812) 422-4761

Rep. Paul Kanjorski, Pennsylvania, 11th

• DC Office Number: 202-225-6511, DC Fax Number: 202-225-0764
• Local Office Number: 570-825-2200, Local Fax Number: 570-825-8685

Rep. Marcy Kaptur, Ohio, 9th

• DC Office Number: (202) 225-4146, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-7711
• Local Office Number: (419) 259-7500, Local Fax Number: (419) 255-9623

Rep. John Murtha, Pennsylvania, 12th

• DC Office Number:(202) 225-2065, DC Fax Number (202) 225-5709
• Local Office Number:(814) 535-2642, Local Fax Number:(814) 539-6229

Rep. Daniel Lipinski, Illinois, 3rd

• DC Office Number: (202) 225-5701, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-1012
• Local Office Number: (312) 886-0481, Local Fax Number: (773) 767-9395

Rep. Bart Stupak, Michigan 1st

• DC Office Number: (202) 225-4735, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-4744
• Local Office Number: (906) 786-4504, Local Fax Number: (906) 786-4534

Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper, Pennsylvania, 3rd

• DC Office Number:(202) 225-5406, DC Fax Number:(202) 225-3103
• Local Office Number:(814) 456-2038, Local Fax Number:(202) 225-3103

Rep. Jim Oberstar, Minnesota, 8th

• DC Office Number:(202) 225-6211 , DC Fax Number:(202) 225-0699
• Local Office Number:(218) 727-7474, Local Fax Number:(218) 727-8270

Rep. Dale Kildee, Michigan, 5th

• DC Office Number:(202) 225-3611, DC Fax Number:(202) 225-6393
• Local Office Number:(810) 239-1437, Local Fax Number:(810) 239-1439

Rep. Solomon Ortiz, Texas, 27th

• DC Office Number:(202) 225-7742, DC Fax Number:(202) 226-1134
• Local Office Number:(361) 883-5868, Local Fax Number:(361) 884-9201

You are the heart and soul of the Tea Party Movement. Thank you for promoting the causes of fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free markets with us!

Your Tea Party Patriots National Coordinator Team,

Debbie Dooley, Mike Gaske, Kellen Giuda, Ryan Hecker, Jenny Beth Martin, Mark Meckler, Sally Oljar, Diana Reimer, Billie Tucker, and Dawn Wildman

America Rising: Open Letter to Democrats

Have you seen this yet?

TEA Party Blog Talk Radio Conference Call

I listened to the TEA Party Blog Talk conference call tonight, here are some of the highlights:

• Senator Lieberman’s staff called the police to arrest the TEA Party members that were waiting quietly in his office to talk to the Senator.  The police were very confused when they arrived.  What they saw were 3 middle-age men in suits, sitting quietly in the lobby, texting on their phones.  
• About 10,000 to 15,000 people were at the Washington D.C. Code Red rally on Tuesday. After the rally, there were lines to get into the Senator’s offices, the Senators and their staffs had a rough day.   Updated: Code Red pictures on Americans For Prosperity site
• Possibility of the Senate remaining in session through Christmas and holding the health care vote on Christmas.
• Holding the vote on Christmas shows great disrespect for our country, to the Senators, to their staffs, to their families.   To play politics with the most important holiday of the Christian faith is very disrespectful.
• The strategy of the left is to keep the pressure on us, thinking we will snap.  They are talking about us…WE THE PEOPLE…that we will just go away and ignore what they are doing, even on Christmas.   The only thing these people understand is pressure.  We need to keep the pressure back on them.
• Please make sure to continue the phone calls, faxes, emails, office visits.  This is very important.
• The National TEA party representatives visited multiple Senators offices and asked them to do the right thing—61% of the American people oppose this legislation.
• When the phones go haywire, it means that we have overloaded the system, which happened again this week.  Good Job!!
• Recommend that you read the book:  The Starfish and the Spider, the most unstoppable power of a leaderless organization. Summary: When losing an arm or head, the starfish can survive and regrow whereas the spider does not and dies.
• The TEA Party organization is a leaderless organization…each of us is a leader, when we get off the couch, show up, become active—we are leading our nation.
• There are about 1000 TEA Party groups nationwide.  This is incredible!  These groups are ordinary folks that have come together to empower themselves to make an impact on our country.   By coming together, we are powerful.
• Those in D.C. are impressed with what we have done and there is fear that we are taking over the political system.   The sleeping giant has been awakened and that is us…We The People.
• Have you heard about the WSJ/NBC poll?  It is amazing.  You can read the Newsmax article here and see the poll results here. The TEA Party Patriot movement has a greater approval than the Republican or Democrat party!!!
• The Newsmax article is sending shock waves through the Washington political establishment.   The fact that the TEA Party is more popular than the Republican & Democratic party is direct result of  EVERY ONE of you that is part of the movement.  You have made this happen.
• There are some people in D.C. clamoring to work with us.  They are saying without you, this bill would have passed a long time.
• Congressman Steve King of Iowa is referring to us as a righteous army coming to the rescue of the nation.  Keep it up!!
• Others are terrified of us, because we are changing the power structure, they see as a ragtag group, how can we change the power structure.  Because they forgot…We The People.
• Keep the pressure on!  Phone calls,  faxes,  emails, office visits.
• Make sure to support the Senators that are standing strong against the bill.   Our actions, including the rallies in D.C. are an inspiration to those Senators and Representatives.

There is hope…some see this as the second American Revolution.  There are now more people with the constitution in their hands, reading and learning than ever before.

A question was asked:   If the vote is scheduled for Christmas day, are you willing to go to D.C. on Christmas Eve to hold a candlelight vigil before the planned vote.   Yes, this is a sacrifice, we need to send the message how serious we are.

LIVE Health Care Update Tonight

Listen to a health care update tonight from the National Tea Party:

TONIGHT LIVE Health Care State of Play Update

Dear Fellow Tea Party Patriots,

As you know from all of your work the last few days and weeks, we are at a critical point in our fight against government takeover of healthcare.

Do not take anything for granted and keep the pressure on throughout today with your phone calls.

Tonight join us at 9:00 pm eastern time for a LIVE Update from DC. We will have a couple of special guests joining us to give an update on what is happening in the Senate and we discuss what you can do to continue to keep the pressure turned up over the next couple of weeks.

You can listen online live at:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/teapartypatriots/2009/12/18/update-from-capitol-hill

or call in and listen over the phone at:

917-388-4341

We look forward to talking with you tonight!