Fellow Coordinators:

Senator Russell Pearce is hosting a National Immigration Policy Summit on July 30-31 in Phoenix, Arizona (see information below).

I write to ask your opinion as to whether Dallas Tea Party should actively support this event.

Please share your thoughts below. 

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Sen. Russell Pearce to Host National Immigration Policy Summit July 30-31 in Phoenix

On Thursday, July 29th, Arizona's new state law that removes all sanctuary policies in the state and creates a mirror state law on the crime of being in Arizona in violation of federal law, known as SB 1070, will go into effect across the State of Arizona.  Arizona will remove all catch and release policies in this state and require law enforcement to enforce our immigration laws, it will take the political handcuffs off from our law enforcement and put them on those who break our laws. The next day, grassroots leaders, legislators and staffers will be coming together in Phoenix to learn more about the new law and how similar laws can be enacted in other states.
 
Arizona's new state law allowing police to enforce our immigration laws, popularly known as SB 1070, has drawn heavy attention from coast to coast, including international attention to the state in recent months and is not only Americas favorite bill, it is the most feared bill for those who break our laws and the open border crowd who support law breakers and ignore the damage to America and Americans.  Polling shows that the voters of Arizona and the American people support the measure by large margins.  In a recent scientific poll, 73% of Arizona residents support SB1070, including 56% of Democrats, 60% of Hispanics, 86% of Republicans respondents  and nationally 60% to 70% expressed a desire for a similar provision in their own state and in several online polls such as MSNBC with over 1 million voting, 95% gave support to SB1070.
 
In order to promote public awareness of the laws of the land and states "inherent" authority to enforce immigration law, as well as debunk the many myths surround SB1070 and states inherent authority, Senator Russell Pearce  and Civil Rights Activist Ted Hayes are co-hosting a National Immigration Policy Summit. The Summit is primarily targeted to state and local grassroots leaders, state legislators and their staff, but all members of the public are welcome to apply.
 
Participants in the Summit will learn, in detail, the role that state and local governments play in the federal immigration enforcement scheme and the scope of legal options state and local authorities have in addressing illegal immigration.
 
“In light of the fact that the illegal immigration invasion of the United States, including the perverted anchor-baby use of the 14th Amendment, is the gravest threat to American Black US citizens since slavery, the good works of the Hon. Senator Russell Pearce in this critical matter makes him to us the modern day Abraham Lincoln.”  Ted Hayes

Fellow Tea Party Patriots:

As you all know by now, the State of Arizona has passed a new law directing police officers to investigate the immigration status of any person who they have lawfully stopped, detained or arrested where there is a reasonable suspicion that the individual is in the U.S. illegally.

Arizona's passage of this new law has brought the state heavy criticism from certain civil libertarian groups, from certain Hispanic and open-borders activist groups, and various and sundry activist groups on the left.  These left-wing groups have called for a BOYCOTT of the entire state and its businesses.

In response to the boycott, a coalition of center-right and conservative groups, led by Dr. Gina Loudon, has called for a BUYcott campaign to support Arizona.  Details of the BUYcott are posted here:

http://drginaloudon.com/general/patriots-launch-an-arizona-buycott/

A group of tea party patriots, including members of Dallas Tea Party, are organizing a rally in Phoenix on May 29th:

 http://standwitharizona.org/3448/

The questions are these:

1. Should Dallas Tea Party officially support the Arizona BUYcott campaign in support of the State of Arizona?

 

2. Should Dallas Tea Party officially support and endorse a Rally in Phoenix on May 29th in support of Arizona?

Please VOTE and COMMENT below.

Via the Washington Examiner:

[N]ow comes hard facts from multiple sources that put the lie to the liberal stereotype about Tea Partiers. For one thing, the Tea Partiers are almost certainly more in tune with the views of the average American voter than is Obama. Pollster Scott Rasmussen found that 48 percent of his respondents say their views are closer to those of the Tea Party than to Obama. Not surprisingly, far more Republicans than Democrats said that to Rasmussen. Less predictable and more important, 50 percent of the independents identified with Tea Partiers over Obama, while only 38 percent of independents said the president's views matched their own. It appears the independent center of American politics has shifted decisively to the right as the Tea Party has grown during the past year.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Independents-rally-to-the-Tea-Party-90036092.html

Please share your thoughts in the comments below.

Fellow Coordinators:

The question of whether our movement should be partisan or non-partisan arises time and again.

There are those who would tell you that our movement should cleave more closely to the Republican Party.  They are convinced that working to bring Democrats into the Tea Party movement is a fool's errand.

If it is, then you can count quite a few of us among the fools.

Fundamentally, many of us are convinced that our core principles will rarely, if ever, be enacted as policy so long as these principles continue to be the exclusive province of one wing of one political party.  History tells us that this is true.  Common-sense conservative principles have been enacted as policy only where center-right Republicans and center-right Democrats allied to make it happen.

As of right now, far-left progressives completely dominate the party of Thomas Jefferson.  Some may be willing to allow this situation to continue indefinitely.  Many of us are not.

There's no doubt that our movement should work, at every juncture, to dislodge the moderate progressives who hold positions of power in the Republican Party.  That's a given.  That said, there's no reason whatsoever not to also challenge the far-left progressives who currently have a stranglehold on the Democrat Party.  This is one of the key reasons we are--and will continue to be--a non-partisan movement.

The day we become focused on a single poltical party is the day we have abandoned the idea that there can and should be such a thing as a 'Reagan Democrat.' We can and should be on the lookout for opportunities to reach out to center-right Democrats and let them know that they are welcome.

If you doubt that such a thing as a 'common sense Democrat' can exist in this day and age, here's an interesting article on the still-small, but growing, number of Democrats in the Tea Party movement:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/02/democrats.tea.party/index.html?section=cnn_latest

Please share your thoughts below...

Fellow Coordinators:

There is a proposal before the Common Sense Texans Board to amend our event rules to eliminate the current rule against hosting politicians elected officials and political candidates as speakers at tea party rallies.

By way of clarification, the current event rules allow elected officials and political candidates to engage in the following tea party activities:

1. Elected officials and political candidates may, under the current rules, address the crowd from the main microphone during town hall meetings.

2. Elected officials and political candidates may, under the current rules, address the crowd from the main microphone during candidate forums.

3. Elected officials and political candidates may, under the current rules, address the crowd from the main microphone during debates.

4. Elected officials and political candidates may also, under the current rules:

- attend tea party rallies

- host booths on the premises of tea party rallies

- interact with the attendees at tea party rallies on either an individual or group basis.

- give speeches on the premises of tea party rallies (away from the main stage)

- be officially recognized from the main stage at a tea party rally

- distribute materials at tea party rallies 

Our current event rules do, however, place a specific restriction on politicians elected officials and political candidates at tea party rallies, specifically:

5. Elected officials and political candidates (other than precinct chairs and precinct chair candidates) may not be hosted as speakers from the main microphone and stage during a tea party rally.

The proposal under consideration would remove this restriction, so that politicians elected officials and political candidates could be hosted as speakers from the main microphone at tea party rallies.

Proponents of the proposed rule change argue that the current rule is unnecessary, outdated and overly restrictive, and that tea party rallies should support those politicians elected officials and political candidates who are willing to express support for our principles.  They point out that many politicians elected officials and political candidates are gifted orators, and featuring them would tend to improve the overall quality of the event.  They also point out that the politicians elected officials and political candidates tend to be more knowledgeable and informed than the members of the regular public, and bring that special knowledge for the benefit of the attendees.

Opponents of the proposed rule change argue that one very unique quality of the tea party rallies is that they are an opportunity for the people to speak to the politicians elected officials and political candidates, rather than vice versa.  They also point out that the public has many opportunities to hear from politicians elected officials and political candidates, but few opportunities to hear from people who are not  politicians elected officials or political candidates.  They also argue that elimination of the rule and hosting of politicians elected officials and political candidates as speakers will have the effect of converting tea party rallies into Republican Party rallies dominated by politicians elected officials and political candidates . 

Please share your opinions below.