Local Tea Partiers Unite Under ‘We’

Item: ‘We the People’ rally Friday: Group to protest congressional spending /Brian Walker, Press

More Info: Tea time, says Ron Nilson, should be about over for those wanting to send a message to Washington, D.C., that they’re concerned about government spending. A local non-partisan grassroots group will hold a “We the People” rally on Friday from 5:30-8 p.m. at Q’emiln Park in Post Falls to kick off Flag Day weekend and piggyback onto a similar event on April 15 in Coeur d’Alene. “This isn’t a tea party; it’s a we party,” said Nilson, CEO of Ground Force Manufacturing who will speak on Friday. “A tea party was a great start and an opportunity for people to understand what this is.

Question: Would you like to see the Tea Partiers stick around and become a political force?