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Tag: Michigan Tea Party Patriot Network (page 2)

I-Caucus of Michigan and the Michigan Republican Senate Primary

By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
Posted on Tue Oct 04, 2011 at 08:25:08 AM EST
Tags: U.S. Senate - class 1 seats, "Dangerously Incompetent" Debbie Stabenow, Michigan Republican 2012 U. S. Senate Primary, Scott Boman, Roi Le Chinn, Clark Durant, Gary Glenn, Randy Hekman, Pete Hoekstra, Peter Konetchy, Chuck Marino, Rick Wilson, Michigan Tea Party Patriot Network, grassroots activists, Independence Caucus of Michigan, Spanish Inquisition, proctology examination, constitutional principles (all tags)

As I have written before, most of the organizations comprising the Michigan Tea Party Patriot Network are structured as 527 groups. This means that they're not allowed to directly advocate the election or defeat of any candidate for elective office, only to operate on behalf of issue advocacy and voter mobilization. However, the tea party networks in several states (including in Michigan) voluntarily operate in strategic partnership with an organization set up specifically as a Political Action Committee. This organization concerns itself with candidate screening, endorsement, and advocacy, with a specific focus on constitutional loyalty and grassroots activism, and on integrity over money.

The Independence Caucus is not a political party, nor is it affiliated with any political party. It is, rather, a group of concerned citizens devoted to electing candidates truly committed to constitutional loyalty and fiscal responsibility, regardless of party. The goal is the election of such candidates to not less than 40% of the available seats in the several state legislatures and both chambers of Congress . . . in each election year. It is a not-for-profit organization of concerned citizens from all walks who recognize the responsibility to act now to protect future generations of this nation from the disastrous consequences of our systematic abrogation of constitutional principles, exists to teach us how to govern our country as citizens, and provides the practical tools and resources to actually make it happen.

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How to NOT Court Tea Partiers

By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
Posted on Tue Sep 27, 2011 at 08:02:05 PM EST
Tags: U.S. Senate - class 1 seats, MIGOP 2012 U. S. Senate Primary, Clark Durant, Saul Anuzis, National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, Dick Wadhams, tea party hater, Michigan Tea Party Patriot Network (all tags)

So far as I'm aware, there are currently about 152 separate organizations (including umbrella groups with their franchises) comprising the Michigan Tea Party Patriot Network. I say, "so far as I'm aware," because I'm still doing some digging with regard to publicly-available information (there are at least four lists, and none of them are identical) for another research project; but the larger point that should not be lost is that the tea party movement in Michigan is without question a force to be reckoned with.

However, out in Colorado earlier this year, the then-chairman of the Colorado GOP, Dick Wadhams, seemed insistent on blaming the Colorado Tea Party Patriot Network for two major losses (governor and senate) in 2010 as he pulled his reelection bid for COGOP chair. Never mind that this cat's been on a losing streak since 2006, nor that the republicans picked up two congressional seats, one State Senate seat, and six state house seats, flipping the congressional delegation and the state H of R . . . nope, it had to be the tea party's fault. At the time, Mr. Wadhams didn't know what his next career move would be. On Mackinac Island last weekend, we found out where he landed.