If you attended the tea party last month on tax day and want to be kept up to date, the organizers of the event have worked very hard on keeping this grassroots movement going. If you didn’t attend the event on tax day, but you have since heard about it and want to find out more information, I will list several links provided by the River Raisin Patriots. This is the name the organizers have decided on to represent the increasingly growing movement.
These people, are to put simply just regular folks. They could be your neighbor, co-worker or as in my case, a classmate from high school. Susan Trowbridge who helped put this all together was a class ahead of me at our school, and even though the last name through me for a day or so, I quickly remembered Sue Parran as a smart, friendly, enthusiastic student. She doesn’t claim to be political, but like the others who attended the event, is just as concerned about rising taxes and mispent funds as the next person.
Susan and the other organizers have really taken the enthusiasm created by the April 15th Tea Party held at St. Mary’s Park here in Monroe and built upon it. Unlike the national and local media who tried to trivialize the nation wide events, they recognize that this is more than a one day and done event/movement. The Patriots are not paid protesters like those from ACORN, just people who do not want handouts from the government that the children will have to payback later down the road.
More than a couple of hundred folks
1,000+
Now, I do not claim to be the most computer savvy person, and will be the first to admit that I do not keep up with all the latest webpages, but I do feel strongly about how Washington and Lansing spends my money. With that said, looks like I will be joining the Facebook and MySpace pages that the organization has created after I create my own page/profile. I will be looking in on their Photobucket page for more pictures, and once I figure out completely what this whole Twitter rage is about, will get set up with that as well.
You have to start somewhere, and this could grow into the next political force in the country. I got to the Tea Party early by a half hour, thought there might have been sixty people there, but by the 6 pm start up time, I was surrounded by tens of hundreds of people. A thousand in the park might not seem like much in the grand scheme of things, but its more than the Sons of Liberty started out with when they dumped in the tea into Boston Harbor. So when you see only a handful of people gathering on the net to voice their opinions, just remember its got to start somewhere, and for everyone who joins, they/you just become one more building block towards the next step.
While the River Raisin Patriots website is being built up, and you want some more information on what this is all about, go ahead and email the committee members with your questions at grassroots@riverraisinpatriots.org .
