New American Tea Party

The Chicago Tax Day Tea Party time and location are set and the permit paperwork is in.

The location will be the Kluczynski Federal Building Plaza at 230 S. Dearborn (not Daley Plaza).

Sign up here on Facebook for the event!

I jumped on Fox News this morning and chatted with Bill Hemmer briefly regarding the GM mess and the tea party efforts. There is plenty going on in the news directly pertaining to our efforts, so there should continue to a good amount of momentum leading up to April 15th.

D.C. Folks:
As JP said below, the permit is locked in for the D.C. party, so if you are on Facebook, be sure to sign up for the event here.

Illinois Residents:
My colleague Brian Costin and I are working closely with #DontGo and are taking the lead on the Chicago Tax Day Tea Party. We have some speakers lined up and are in the process of nailing down permits for the location, so stay tuned!

Hi All,

Eric’s been doing a massive job coordinating national efforts, so be sure to check out his site: http://taxdayteaparty.com. But since this site is dedicated to the DC effort (and helping out however we can with other efforts as well), we’re pleased to tell you we just got the permit to hold our tea party in front of the Treasury, on April 15th, from noon to 2. We’ll even have a stage and a sound system — weather pending. Stay tuned.

Nice hit on Drudge Report for Orlando Tea Party!

One commenter suggested sending the label. Y’know what? That’s not a bad idea. I wonder if we can FOIA the incoming mail at the White House.

We have received hundreds of questions about an email circulating that urges folks to send tea to Washington on April 1st or April 15th.  This effort is not endorsed by the New American Tea Party, so we can’t answer any questions about it. It is a neat idea, but things like that will likely either be held up getting scanned or end up getting thrown away due to security precautions.

Keep an eye on the April 15th tea party resurgence and stay tuned for details for a tea party coming to a city near you.  In the mean time, sign up if you haven’t already via the “Keep Me Informed” link (above) and our Facebook group and pass it on to friends, relatives, and colleagues!

I just spoke to Eric Odom of DontGo, who is helping to coordinate the nationwide movement. Eric’s a fantastic guy, and his site is good, and we see eye to eye on one very important thing: We can’t let this simply putter out. He wants to help us as much as he can, and we want to help him as much as we can.

So New American Tea Party is proud to announce we’re doing a Tax Day Tea Party on April 15th. We’ll have more details to you soon, and with this much notice (as opposed to one week’s worth of planning for the Feb. 27th event), we’ll have more things in place to make this a real success.

In the meantime, just wanted to keep you all posted. Didn’t want to make you guys worry that we had suddenly decided that high taxes and over-regulation were facts of life and completely cool with us.

I’ve been asked, by hundreds of emailers, “What’s next?” We’ve received thousands of emails, being absolutely bombarded.

The fact that the Tea Party movement is decentralized is an advantage. It is a huge advantage. Because for the first time that I’ve been aware since maybe the American Revolution, people with an interest in limited government are also taking an interest in action outside the normal methods.

In that sense, I need to be clear: What will suck the wind out of this effort is centralized control.

What’s more valuable? Organizing a whole array of events for which one person can take credit? Or having everyone buy in equally? Imagine how much stronger and robust this will be when you have thousands of people who threw their own events. This experience is valuable. I’m looking at this from the standpoint of someone who is excited to have more people step up.

That includes, by the way, people stepping up to blog. If you’ve assembled an event, hop on board. We want your comments about what your experience was like. Talk to us.

Every person working on this stuff is concerned right now with making sure we really play the role of facilitators. What impresses me most, though, is that everyone involved is performing this out of a sense of duty. We all have jobs that do not demand we do protests. Yet we’re doing it.

As I said — this site got started when I called John O’Hara at 11pm on a Thursday with a silly idea. When I started getting emails back from him around 3 a.m., I knew that there was a fever — as so many of those who showed up at our Washington Tea Party proved on Friday.