Free & Equal is very pleased to announce that our fearless leader, Christina Tobin, will deliver the first of two keynote addresses at a townhall event Saturday hosted by the Rockford (Illinois) Tea Party. The event kicks off at 8:45 a.m. and runs until 4 p.m. at the Stockholm Inn in Rockford.
Christina is scheduled to speak at 11:15 a.m. on the topic: “Ballot Access, The Forgotten Freedom.” Constitution Party candidate for governor and Free & Equal board member Randy Stufflebeam will give the other keynote at 2:05 p.m. on the topic, “To Veterans: Remember Your Oath.”
The Rockford Tea Party exemplifies the best of the Tea Party movement everyday citizens concerned about the well-being of their nation, not partisan politics.
The issues on the table this weekend: double-digit unemployment, the declining value of the dollar, out-of-control government spending, and a waning respect for the sovereignty of the people.
But it’s not the specific issues Free & Equal is excited about. It’s people organizing at the grassroots to effect change at a time when widespread discontent and disenchantment have taken hold of the nation. If the established order can’t get the job done, then it’s the job of the people to remind that order who’s really in charge of this country.
By George, we are in charge.
And we ask: How can the people be in charge of their country while not being allowed to make the most important of choices: for whom they will cast their vote?
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In other news:
Oklahomans for Ballot Access Reform successfully manufactured some media attention yesterday. The group held a press conference at the state Capitol, using Presidents Day as an excuse to raise the issue that third-party and independent presidential candidates are routinely kept off the state’s election ballots by its astronomical signature requirement, the highest in the nation at 3 percent (5 percent for new party recognition).
OBAR’s clever gimmick was to have representatives from each of the state’s third parties stand before the media with their mouths taped shut, symbolic of how the state has silenced them for many years by shutting them out of electoral politics.
Oklahoma City News Channel 4 (KFOR) did a good story. See it HERE. But note one mistake: House Bill 1072, as amended, would not lower the state’s new-party requirement to a flat 5,000 signatures. That’s what OBAR wants, but the duopoly thus far has worked to water-down the bill, even to the point that it threatens to barely offer “reform” at all. We can’t let them get away with it. OK’s first real chance at reform in years has come too far to let it slip through Lady Liberty’s fingers.
Tobin to Rockford Tea Party this weekend
Free & Equal is very pleased to announce that our fearless leader, Christina Tobin, will deliver the first of two keynote addresses at a townhall event Saturday hosted by the Rockford (Illinois) Tea Party. The event kicks off at 8:45 a.m. and runs until 4 p.m. at the Stockholm Inn in Rockford.
Christina is scheduled to speak at 11:15 a.m. on the topic: “Ballot Access, The Forgotten Freedom.” Constitution Party candidate for governor and Free & Equal board member Randy Stufflebeam will give the other keynote at 2:05 p.m. on the topic, “To Veterans: Remember You’re Oath.”
The Rockford Tea Party exemplifies the best of the Tea Party movement everyday citizens concerned about the well-being of their nation, not partisan politics.
The issues on the table this weekend: double-digit unemployment, the declining value of the dollar, out-of-control government spending, and a waning respect for the sovereignty of the people.
But it’s not the specific issues Free & Equal is excited about. It’s people organizing at the grassroots to effect change at a time when widespread discontent and disenchantment have taken hold of the nation. If the established order can’t get the job done, then it’s the job of the people to remind that order who’s really in charge of this country.
By George, we are in charge.
And we ask: How can the people be in charge of their country while not being allowed to make the most important of choices: for whom they will cast their vote?
___________________________
In other news:
Oklahomans for Ballot Access Reform successfully manufactured some media attention yesterday. The group held a press conference at the state Capitol, using Presidents Day as an excuse to raise the issue that third-party and independent presidential candidates are routinely kept off the state’s election ballots by its astronomical signature requirement, the highest in the nation at 3 percent (5 percent for new party recognition).
OBAR’s clever gimmick was to have representatives from each of the state’s third parties stand before they media with their mouths taped shut, symbolic of how the state has silenced them for many years by shutting them out of electoral politics.
Oklahoma City News Channel 4 (KFOR) did a good story. See it HERE. But note one mistake: House Bill 1072, as amended, would not lower the state’s new-party requirement to a flat 5,000 signatures. That’s what OBAR wants, but the duopoly thus far has worked to water-down the bill, even to the point that it threatens to barely offer “reform” at all. We can’t let them get away with it. OK’s first real chance at reform in years has come too far to let it slip through Lady Liberty’s fingers.
