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By rochester_veteran
Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, had an interesting and informative article in the Wall Street Journal about Independent voters and where they stand. From Who Are the Independents, and What Are They Thinking?:
At this point, independents are significantly closer to Republicans than they are to Democrats on a host [...]

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By rochester_veteran
There was a good article on townhall.com by Brian Walsh about Dan Maffei and Ann Marie Buerkle and the NY 25th Congressional race:
Excerpt from: 2010 Race of the Day: Democrats’ Maffei Problem
Highlighting the growing concern over Maffei’s left-wing voting record and Republican candidate Ann Marie Buerkle’s broad appeal, Buerkle was endorsed by the Independence [...]

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I’m featuring Krista Branch’s youtube video hit, “I Am America”, for today’s post. Krista is a Tea Party Patriot and feels strongly enough about our movement that she wrote this stirring song.
Enjoy!
RV

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By rochester_veteran
Breitbart.tv had a post about a national Tea Party organization that sent a letter to the Congressional Black Caucus denouncing racism back in April. Here’s a video of Niger Innis on who appeared on Geraldo yesterday:

The Rochester Tea Party Movement also publicly denounced racism as well as violence back March 25, 2010:
From: Rochester Tea [...]

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By Harry Riley , COL , USA , Ret
Patriots For America
This thrust of this piece is not for the patriot, the American that is vigilant of government, the individual that is actively working to restore our constitutional republic, or the man or woman that clearly views a threat to American freedom and liberty in our [...]

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By rochester_veteran
Black Tea Party participants were quick to respond in condemnation of the NAACP’s bogus resolution of racism. From Andy Barr of Politico.com:
Some African-American tea party candidates are displeased by a resolution that the NAACP approved on Tuesday calling the grass-roots conservative movement “racist.”
“I have not experienced the charges of racism that the NAACP is [...]

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By rochester_veteran
The Heritage Foundation is reporting that peoples dependence on the government has jumped. This from Waterbury Republican-American:
The Heritage Foundation has released its annual estimate of how much people in the United States have come to rely on government. In 2009, the index rose from 239 to 272, an increase of 13.6 percent. It was [...]

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By rochester_veteran
The NAACP is holding their annual national convention and approved a resolution condemning bigotry within the Tea Party Movement. From Yahoo News:
We felt the time had come to stand up and say, ‘It’s time for the tea party to be responsible members of this democracy and make sure they don’t tolerate bigots or bigotry [...]

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Rochester Tea Party, Campaign For Liberty and Young Americans For Liberty activist, Gabe Sukenik, is producing a news show called Mainstream AlternaTiV. I thought I’d feature the promotional video for the show.

Please check out the premier show of Mainstream AlternaTiV. RV

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By rochester_veteran
Last evening (5/17/2010) I had to work late and didn’t get home until just past 6:30pm. My wife had ABC World News on, usually a “no no” in our household. That’s by my wife’s rules, established during the Peter Jennings days, because ABC’s biased reporting would cause me to yell at the TV set! [...]

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