What began as a “grassroots” conservative movement is now a limited liability company. The Tea Party of Lafayette announced at a July 8 town hall meeting the group — an outcropping of the nationwide TEA (Taxed Enough Already) movement that held rallies on April 15 — has received LLC status and will soon elect officers and a board of directors.
The Tea Party of Lafayette is coordinating its causes with the Tea Party of Louisiana and other conservative groups, which, according to a memo distributed via e-mail to members, will allow TP-Lafayette to “have a stronger and more dynamic presence in the political arena.” A major focus of TP-Louisiana, according to the group’s Web site, is opposition to cap and trade legislation and, attendant to that, the “Global Warming Hoax.”
On the Tea Party of Louisiana Web site one can view several videos, including an almost two-hour high-def video titled “The Obama Deception” that opens with forboding music over a video montage of adoring Obama crowds — with special emphasis on African Americans weeping during the inauguration — and out-of-context quotes from Obama and administration officials that draw implicit parallels to the rise of Hitler: youth brigades, martial law, hoodwinked masses.
The Tea Party of Louisiana will hold its next town hall meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the South Regional Library on Johnston Street. The topic is “Obama administration’s so-called Financial Regulatory Reform Proposal.”
I hope all you non-believers in global warming don't evacuate for the next outta control hurricane. The more the Gulf heats, the more you'll be blown away. This will surely stop the belly aching ignorance you're sooo proud of.
... written by corima , July 14, 2009 - 06:03 pm
Wow, what a slanted report
... written by J Neil Morein , July 14, 2009 - 06:42 pm
Interesting meeting place for a bunch of people who don't want to pay taxes
... written by Resident , July 14, 2009 - 07:33 pm
TP-Louisiana, and TEA parties in general, might be taken more seriously if they stuck to the very real issue of being taxed enough already. Sure, we pay a heck of a lot of taxes and government is wasteful. But they had to jump on the "hoax" bandwagon, embracing partisan claptrap instead of the scientific consensus. And "The Obama Deception" propaganda? Puhleez.
... written by ohgoodie , July 14, 2009 - 09:34 pm
I just love the image on top of the website - outlines of the Louisiana Capital Building and a collection of every refinery flare tower in Louisiana. Lookin' good. I wonder why the air around it is so magical...
... written by BarfGagWheeze , July 17, 2009 - 04:13 am
Global warming is a hoax. 650 climatologists stood up a the UN conference in Poland last December and said so. The earth has been cooling since 1998, the polar ice packs have gained 5%, and now equal the mass present in 1980. Climatologists now say an Ice Age is more likely. Remember in the 70's when everyone was talking about an Ice Age. How about the "hole in the Ozone layer"? Global warming is just a myth to scare everyone into huge taxes on energy and carbon emissions. CO2 levels lag warming, not the cause. Oceans give off CO2 as they warm, and absorb it when they cool. Listen to the scientists, not a bunch of tax and spend politicians with law degrees, and goofball Gore with a journalism degree. Google global warming Poland, and edemacate yourself.
... written by BarfGagWheeze , July 17, 2009 - 06:35 am
Count the solar flares emitted by the Sun. 21 a few years ago, this year, zero, so far. The Sun is a big toaster oven. Turn it up, temps go up, turn it down, freezing. Why has the citrus line gone south? We grew citrus crops (limes, lemons, oranges, grapefruit)in South Louisiana for many years. Citrus doesn't like cold, yet it seems cold is going south. We can't grow citrus in South Louisiana like we did 40 years ago. It's getting colder, but the last to know are our great leaders, who with their background in BA, not BS, couldn't titrate a precipitate, if they knew the concept. It snowed in South Louisiana this last winter. Everybody laughed, must be global warming, they joked.
... written by simple simon , July 17, 2009 - 06:16 pm
I believe I am taxed enough already. I don't believe in socialism, work if you want it don't expect me to give it to you.
Global warming.......polar ice caps melting.....what happens to a glass full of ice? Does it spill over when the ice melts? There is your first hole in Al's theory....the oceans will not rise and wipe out land mass. Yes he has lied about the rest.
I don't believe alot of what I read but I do want to make up my own mind....keep your slanted views out of your reporting and let me make up my own mind after I review the facts
... written by BarfGagWheeze , July 18, 2009 - 05:01 pm
"If a man will not work, neither shall he eat." 2 Thessalonians 3:10
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