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March 17, 2010 in Region
Tea Party rallies in Yakima
YAKIMA - Members of the Tea Party in Yakima exhorted some 100 sympathetic listeners Tuesday night to take the nascent movement beyond sign waving and outrage to become a bona fide force that could change the direction of the country.
“We’re living in an era of fear but it’s time we instilled a little fear in the people in Congress who are not doing their job,” said Brian Reiswig of Yakima, who rallied the troops in the audio-visual room at Glenwood Square in Yakima.
The meeting was part pep rally and part recruitment drive as Kirk Groenig, an organizer of Remember Us, We the People, affiliated with the state and national Tea Party movement, told participants they need to do everything they can to get the central message of smaller government and lower taxes across to representatives in Washington, D.C.
Showing a video montage of past Tea Party rallies in Yakima and Olympia, Groenig said elected officials have heard their concerns but don’t yet acknowledge the movement. He appealed to the group to e-mail lawmakers and contribute financially, walking them through step-by-step how to e-mail from the Web site www.rememberuswethepeople.org, which is applying for nonprofit status.
“We’re not going to let them lie to us anymore,” said Groenig, an insurance agent from Ellensburg.
The Tea Party isn’t affiliated with any political party, but participants at the rally were encouraged to buy a $40 ticket to the annual Lincoln Day dinner hosted by Yakima County Republican Party on March 27 at the Clarion Hotel. Former gubernatorial hopeful Dino Rossi and Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Pasco, are scheduled speakers.
One attendee at the meeting, Yakima businessman Brad Tidrick, said he is donating a wall on his transmission business in Union Gap for a mural that would send a message to Congress.
“It’s time every one of us take a step to get active. The next time we meet, let’s double the numbers,” said Tidrick. “Let’s take America back. It’s time.”
Although there are numerous groups that have become active in the Tea Party movement, including the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, Grass Roots of Yakima Valley, the John Birch Society and the 9/12 Project, affiliated with TV personality Glenn Beck, members of each said they are committed to supporting one another.
“We are all working together and supporting one another,” said Sandi Belzer Brendale, a longtime anti-tax activist in the Yakima Valley.
The groups are holding an anti-health-care reform rally Thursday at 11:30 a.m. in front of the Tower on Yakima Avenue to protest Sen. Patty Murray’s support for the legislation. Murray, a Democrat, has an office in the tower at Third Street and Yakima Avenue.
Another rally is set for April 10 to hear from Lasse Lund of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation, a conservative research group in Olympia. That event is at the Second Street Park at Second Street and Yakima Avenue from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
—Leah Beth Ward can be reached at 577-7626 or lwardyakimaherald.com.
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leekinny on March 17 at 9:14 a.m.
This shows hate in the extreme. Is this what you guys are all about? Or, do you all condemn it?
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/17/tea-party-parkinsons/
tinybobidaho on March 17 at 9:54 a.m.
leekinny on March 17 at 9:14 a.m.
This shows hate in the extreme. Is this what you guys are all about? Or, do you all condemn it?
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The only hate I see here is in your ridiculous comment. Now it’s called “hate” to excercise our right to freedom of speech? If that’s the case, then maybe you shouldn’t be talking, either. You must be a part of the Southern Poverty “Lie” Center who is going around labeling everyone as a hater who even dares to disagree with the bad policies of this administration. The SPLC is nothing more than a hate group against America.
leekinny on March 17 at 10:07 a.m.
It’s called hateful speech. I don’t think I made it clear that the guys I’m referring to are teaparty people. Please view the video.
IHike4Fun on March 17 at 10:17 a.m.
‘Hateful speech’?? So a difference of opinion is hateful?
The wishes of the majority have been entirely trampled by the current congress. In a representative republic when elected representatives are NOT representing the wishes of the electorate the people have right to be outraged. (Dang! there is a run on sentance!)
Expressing anger is not hate. They are two separate things.
leekinny on March 17 at 10:27 a.m.
Anger delivered in a hateful way, especially towards someone fighting a serious disease, is hate. Is this acceptable? Are apologies in order?
Scoutster on March 17 at 10:28 a.m.
Let ‘em rip!
No need to call them names or denigrate them.
Just ask for specifics. I”m thinking of going to the next tea partiers’ meeting with a sign that is more than problem oriented but is solution oriented.
I’m thinking a big sign that reads “Cut Medicare Now” or “End Veterans Benefits” or “Social Security Should Start at Age 80”, something that can really HELP cut taxes and the deficit. That’s what they say they want.
tinybobidaho on March 17 at 10:59 a.m.
leekinny on March 17 at 10:07 a.m.
It’s called hateful speech. I don’t think I made it clear that the guys I’m referring to are teaparty people. Please view the video.
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I watched your video. I didn’t see any hateful speech. What I did see was two opposing views about this health care bill.
SugarShane on March 17 at 11:09 a.m.
Tea partiers seem to be against health care reform, but what percentage of them collect medicare/medicade SSI? Am I wrong or are these tea parties white only? Why would anyone wage war on social justice and equality? Why are we one of the only industrialized nations to not have health care for all?
It just makes no sense, its like marijuana law reform, a handful of people spouting off regurgitated information and claiming it as fact. Rabble rousers sowing the seeds of dissent.
MrNatural on March 17 at 11:28 a.m.
Self-righteous sanctimonious condescending malcontent is every citizen’s inalienable right! Untenable intellectual reasoning is blazing new trails in public discourse. Let’s light the flames of freedom and watch it burn the foundations of American society so these patriots can experience their visions of liberty. No more will we suffer the burden of the environment this foreign government sustains us to suffer. Knit your flag, grow your crops, and defend them with your guns. Form well armed militias and allow them to roam from sea to shining sea on roads built with your own hands. EXCELSIOR!
…and another thing dag-nabit…where do I register a complaint about my neighbor?
soccermomsusie on March 17 at 1:08 p.m.
Obama is a radical socialist, communist, fascist, dada-ist, marxist, cannabalist, zoroastrianist, pantheist, badguyist, poopypantsist president!
The Spokesman-Review did a big story on us last tea party and took pictures of the 14 of us patriots, and now a big story is devoted to the 100 patriots gathered.
They are part of the liberal media for sure.
My nephew says, in a whiny voice, “But Aunt Susie, they never did much of a story when thousands turned out for antiwar protests, yet they take pictures when a FoxNews sponsored tea party can only garner a dozen people. They aren’t the liberal media.”
Well first of all, SHUT UP BILLY! Second of all, I would take quality over quantity any day. Thirdly, Mallard Fillmore is the best comic, yet they stick him in the back. Plus, they use a terrible picture of Charles Krauthammer in his column. The man is very handsome, but they make him look like he needs a big dose of Doxidan. And pound for pound, us teabaggers had the skinny liberals beat.
LIBERAL MEDIA!!!
HEAR OUR VOICE and see you at the next tea party mega gathering!
I want my America back.
soccermomsusie on March 17 at 1:13 p.m.
PRESS RELEASE FOR SPOKESMAN REVIEW
I am going to have a tea party protest at my house in five minutes. I will be the only one there, but I will chant loudly.
My good nephew made me a sign: “I wont my Armerca bak!”
Please send reporters, photographers plus tell the other news guys. If you don’t show up, then you are obviously a liberal news mediate and are part of the global socialite takeover.
Loudin on March 17 at 1:26 p.m.
The greater Yakima “metropolitan” area has 229,000 residents (according to Wiki…take it for what it is). That said, 100 “tea baggers” showed up for this “event.” So unless you are some sort of nutjob conspiracy theorist who believes the “media” is playing this down, It looks to be a total failure. I mean, you can go into any nursing home in any city in this country and get 100 angry cranks to spout off about how America is going down the tubes.
BTW: “Tea Party” events consist almost exclusively of gray, silver, white & blue haired attendees. The ironic thing about that is they are the number #1 users of the two largest socialist programs in the world: Social Security & Medicare. Talk about hypocrites!
empyrius on March 17 at 1:37 p.m.
Omigosh, our beloved woefully oppressed soccermom and her “hear our voice” battlecry; you know, I have a cyber crush on you b/c you are just so cute! ;)
As long as you anti-government republicans vote to decriminalize the Lord’s good green herb this Novermber, I don’t care if you get rid of that evil socialist Social Security next week!
Cuz like my boy Daltrey used to sing “hope I die before I get old” (waitaminute I am already old), ummmm, well, you know what I mean.
Well, like my other bro Dylan used to sing, “everybody must get stoned”!
God bless America
BigE on March 17 at 3:25 p.m.
Whew, one good thing is we have some very intelligent people here, bad thing is, you have to sort through the sub 100 club.
All Grandpa knows, every rich white guy I know is mad about the current administration. This I heard today, “Rather than hire 20 people we are hiring 10 and getting rid of 2 at the end of the first week, sends a message”.
Stick together, treat your fellow person good, have some values, fight for America.
PlanB on March 17 at 4:17 p.m.
Extreme hypocrisy and ignorance are the cornerstones of the whole tea-bagger movement. Ask them about the things they are screaming about - they don’t really know.
“Keep guvment out of Medicare!!!”
misjustice on March 17 at 8:46 p.m.
I caught on right away that this was a liberal, left-leanin’, biased media rant when they misquoted Mr. Reiswig as sayin’ “We’re l-i-v-i-n-g..” we all know that TRUE teabaggers drop the g off of all words endin’ in i-n-g….LOL ; )
Ain’t that right, Sarah?
Yeah, you betcha! Wink, wink! ;)
smarg on March 18 at 12:28 p.m.
It’s funny reading the leftist America-haters on here calling the movement by a sexually deriding moniker. Folks like Loudin are probably still living in their gray and blue-haired parent’s basements surfing porn and masturbating all day. Hey, you gotsta get a job so you can pay for our Social Security, junior! Hah!
Verbal on March 20 at 11:31 a.m.
Its not a “sexually deriding moniker”, TJ. Its what the members originally called themselves.\
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