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== Introduction ==
== Introduction ==
While there are many facets of the Tea Party, overall this non-partisan group seems to stand for smaller government, fiscal responsibility and the return to U.S. Constitutional values. Founders of the Tea Party also believe in the book The Federalist Papers, also known as the Federalist, contained 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison. The book was compiled between October 1787 and May 1788.<ref name="urlThe Federalist Papers - THOMAS (Library of Congress)">{{cite web
While there are many facets of the Tea Party, overall this non-partisan group seems to stand for smaller government, fiscal responsibility and the return to U.S. Constitutional values. Founders of the Tea Party also believe in the book called The Federalist Papers, also known as The Federalist, that contains 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison. The book was compiled between October 1787 and May 1788.<ref name="urlThe Federalist Papers - THOMAS (Library of Congress)">{{cite web
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== Tea Party Origins ==
== Tea Party Origins ==
Seattle resident Keli Carender is credited for starting the Tea Party Movement in 2009. Carender tired of politics as usual and decided to call a few conservative friends to set up a rally in 2009. The rally was attended by 120 people. Later rallies spread throughout the United States making Carender a celebrity. <ref name="urlUnlikely Activist Who Got to the Tea Party Early - NYTimes.com">{{cite web
Seattle resident Keli Carender is credited for starting the Tea Party Movement in 2009. Carender tired of politics as usual and decided to call a few conservative friends to set up a rally. The rally was attended by 120 people. Later rallies spread throughout the United States making Carender a celebrity. <ref name="urlUnlikely Activist Who Got to the Tea Party Early - NYTimes.com">{{cite web
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== Tea Party Patriots ==
By most accounts, the Paul Revere figure of this Second American Revolution is an excitable cable-news reporter named Rick Santelli, a former futures trader and Drexel Burnham Lambert vice-president who stood on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange last February and sounded the alarm on CNBC about the new Administration’s planned assistance for homeowners facing foreclosure. He proposed a nationwide referendum, via the Internet, on the matter of subsidizing “the losers’ mortgages,” winning both the attention and the vocal support of the working traders in his midst. “President Obama, are you listening?” he shouted, and then said that he’d been thinking of organizing a Chicago Tea Party in July, urging “all you capitalists” to come join him on Lake Michigan, where “we’re going to be dumping in some derivative securities.” It was a delicate pose—financial professionals more or less laughing at debtors while disavowing the lending techniques that had occasioned the crisis—but within a matter of hours a Web site, OfficialChicagoTeaParty.com, had gone live, and by the end of the following week dozens of small protests were occurring simultaneously around the country, invoking the legacy of early New England colonists in their revolt against King George.
The Tea Party Patriots political and social action group is an out growth of Carrender's first political efforts. The Tea Party Patriots web site claims to be the national organization for the Tea Party movement.
 
"Tea Party Patriots, Inc. ("TPP") is a non-partisan, non-profit social welfare organization dedicated to furthering the common good and general welfare of the people of the United States. TPP furthers this goal by educating the public and promoting the principles of fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government and free markets. Tea Party Patriots has not endorsed candidates for public office."<ref name="urlTea Party Patriots | About Tea Party Patriots">{{cite web
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/02/01/100201fa_fact_mcgrath?currentPage=all#ixzz10fpvV1Ul
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Motto:  "Ordinary citizens reclaiming America's founding principles."


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Revision as of 22:37, 26 September 2010

Introduction

While there are many facets of the Tea Party, overall this non-partisan group seems to stand for smaller government, fiscal responsibility and the return to U.S. Constitutional values. Founders of the Tea Party also believe in the book called The Federalist Papers, also known as The Federalist, that contains 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison. The book was compiled between October 1787 and May 1788.[1]

Tea Party Origins

Seattle resident Keli Carender is credited for starting the Tea Party Movement in 2009. Carender tired of politics as usual and decided to call a few conservative friends to set up a rally. The rally was attended by 120 people. Later rallies spread throughout the United States making Carender a celebrity. [2] Rick Santeli is also credited with creation of the Tea Party movement. Santeli, a CNBC cable-news reporter, offered to form a Chicago based Tea Party. Within hours the OfficialChicagoTeaParty.com web site was brought online. Within weeks Tea Party protests throughout New England took hold leading to the growth of the Tea Party.[3]

Tea Party Patriots

The Tea Party Patriots political and social action group is an out growth of Carrender's first political efforts. The Tea Party Patriots web site claims to be the national organization for the Tea Party movement. "Tea Party Patriots, Inc. ("TPP") is a non-partisan, non-profit social welfare organization dedicated to furthering the common good and general welfare of the people of the United States. TPP furthers this goal by educating the public and promoting the principles of fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government and free markets. Tea Party Patriots has not endorsed candidates for public office."[4] Motto: "Ordinary citizens reclaiming America's founding principles."

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  1. ↑ The Federalist Papers - THOMAS (Library of Congress). Retrieved on 2010-09-26.
  2. ↑ Unlikely Activist Who Got to the Tea Party Early - NYTimes.com. Retrieved on 2010-09-26.
  3. ↑ The rise of the Tea Party movement : The New Yorker. Retrieved on 2010-09-26.
  4. ↑ Tea Party Patriots | About Tea Party Patriots. Retrieved on 2010-09-26.
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