Category Archives: Tea Party

Is Ohio Senate Bill 5 Union Busting?

By doris | Published: February 20, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com COMMENTARY | The debate over Ohio Senate Bill 5 is quickly evolving to an emotional and partisan issue. Public employee unions are lined up on one side of the issue and fiscal conservatives holding court on the other. Increasingly strong partisan rhetoric personal attacks are appearing on union websites. The Ohio [...]

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Preston on Politics: Tea Party could be key voting bloc in Senate

By doris | Published: October 25, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The old proverb “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” is one way to describe the 2010 election — especially when explaining the complicated alliance between Tea Party activists and the Republican establishment. These two former enemies — remember the contentious and divisive primary season — are [...]

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Preston on Politics: Tea Party could be key voting bloc in Senate

By doris | Published: October 20, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The old proverb “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” is one way to describe the 2010 election — especially when explaining the complicated alliance between Tea Party activists and the Republican establishment. These two former enemies — remember the contentious and divisive primary season — are [...]

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Across America, people speak out on tea party

By doris | Published: October 18, 2010

Full Story atnews.Yahoo.com The Tea Party Express, one of the largest national organizations in the fractured political movement that aims to elect candidates who fiercely advocate for lower taxes and smaller government, is leaving for a cross-country bus tour Monday. Sarah Palin, a champion of the movement, kicks off the trip with a speech in [...]

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More midterms: The Tea Party caucus

By doris | Published: October 17, 2010

Full Story at FirstRead.msnbc.msn.com The New York Times finds that “33 Tea Party-backed candidates are in tossup races or running in House districts that are solidly or leaning Republican, and 8 stand a good or better chance of winning Senate seats. While the numbers are relatively small, they could exert outsize influence, putting pressure on [...]

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Big labor mobilizing Tea Party alternative

By doris | Published: October 2, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Bensalem, Pennsylvania (CNN) — It sounds like a political classified ad. “Wanted: unemployed voters.” That’s the message from one of the nation’s biggest labor unions, the AFL-CIO. Between now and Election Day, the union’s community outreach organization known as Working America will be recruiting jobless Americans for a new political movement. [...]

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Meet the Press guest list for September 19, 2010

By doris | Published: September 18, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com Coming up this Sunday, we’ll go one-on-one with the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, as he prepares to host his sixth annual Clinton Global Initiative – a gathering of world leaders to find and implement solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. Plus, an exclusive live interview with [...]

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GOP fights to hold off Tea Party in Delaware

By doris | Published: September 13, 2010

Full Story atPolitical Ticker.Blog.CNN.com Millsboro, Delaware (CNN) – The Republican party’s candidate in Delaware says he won’t be caught off guard by the Tea Party in the final days before Tuesday’s primary. Mike Castle, the moderate Republican congressman whose Senate bid has the support of the state GOP, is trying to avoid becoming the next [...]

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Tea party or establishment, GOP looks for gains

By doris | Published: September 6, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com WILMINGTON, Del. — In the turbulent year of the tea party, Republican Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware set out to jangle no nerves as he ran for a Senate seat long held by Vice President Joseph Biden. It’s the way Republican strategists originally envisioned 2010, a roster of seasoned politicians pointing [...]

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Murkowski concedes GOP Senate race in Alaska

By doris | Published: September 1, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com ANCHORAGE — Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski was booted from office in the Republican primary Tuesday by a little-known conservative lawyer backed by former governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, in arguably America’s biggest political upset of the year. Joe Miller, backed by Palin and the ultraconservative Tea Party Express movement, [...]

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Primary voters set to head to polls in Louisiana, West Virginia

By doris | Published: August 28, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Primary voters are set to head to the polls this weekend, this time in Louisiana and West Virginia. In Louisiana, GOP Sen. David Vitter is expected to easily overcome a primary challenge Saturday in his first appearance on the ballot since a 2007 prostitution scandal. In West Virginia, voters [...]

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The New Revolutionaries

By doris | Published: July 5, 2010

Full Story at Newsweek.com It’s not just the 4th of July holiday that’s raising memories of revolution. The idea of active anti-government resistance, once the province of the fringe or a mere historical parable, is now a common component of the national discourse. If all the voices actively calling for or raising the specter of [...]

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