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Events

HFA hosts various events throughout the year including Constitution Classes, forums, and local support group meetings around the country. We will post these events as they come available. Also, when we find out about events hosted by other individuals and organizations that we feel you may be interested in we will post them here as well. Please feel free to submit your event for consideration.

National Tea Party Rallies

Current Rally Locations can be found here http://www.teapartyday.com/Locations.aspx

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New Tea Party

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The 9-12 Project

The 9-12 Project is designed to bring us all back to the place we were on September 12, 2001. The Day after was attacked we weren’t obsessed with Red States, Blue States, or political parties. We were united as Americans, standing together to protect the values and principles of the greatest nation ever created.

The 9-12 Project Website

http://www.the912project.com/ 

The 9-12 Project website is a place where we can link with other like-minded Americans looking for direction in taking back the control of our country. It is also a place to find information that will assist us in navigating the rough waters we face in the days, weeks and months ahead. It is also a great place to go when we feel we are all alone and the only one in America with any common sense and then realize—we are not alone. We truly are the silent majority. Homemakers for America President Kimberly Fletcher strongly recommends visiting the 9-12 Project website for information, encouragement, and empowerment. “It is,” states Kimberly, “a vital resource for anyone who loves America and seeks direction on how to save her.”

Kimberly Fletcher - President of Homemakers For America Speaks At Dayton Tea Party, April 15th 2009.

TEA PARTY Speech  

Kimberly Fletcher 

In 1774, just months after the famous Boston Tea Party another Tea Party was held in the small town of Edenton North Carolina. Penelope Barker hosted the event in the home of Elizabeth King—a nearby friend. No one came in disguise to this Tea Party. 51 women attended not dressed as Indians but in their colonial finest. After greeting her guests Penelope produced the document which prompted the gathering.

Penelope declared to the ladies present that she felt it was their duty to support the Congressional ban on English imports by refusing to purchase them. She then held up the document she had written stating that all who signed would commit that they would not purchase anything from England—not clothes, not food, dry goods and certainly not tea! 

All 51 women present signed the document and within a few short months a wild fire of “No Tea” Tea Parties spread across the colonies and women from New Hampshire to Georgia refused to purchase any goods from England. 

The Edenton Tea Party became an international incident that nearly bankrupt British commerce all because a few ladies got together and decided they weren’t going to take it anymore. Today, I am here with you because I have decided I’m not going to take it anymore. 

I have heard some in the Media suggest that this Tea Party is a Republican event. I can assure you I am just as disgusted with the Republicans as I am the Democrats. As you can see from the quotes posted throughout the square from our founding fathers and prominent leaders of the world, this is not a Republican issue. It is not a Democrat issue. It is an America issue. And America is fed up.  

In the last few months I have heard a lot of passionate speeches and candid interviews from various Republicans decrying the stimulus bill. But I have to wonder are they opposed to the bill because it is wrong or because it was introduced by a democrat? After all, they didn’t seem to have a problem with spending that kind of money in October when they passed the $700 billion financial bailout. Is it really the amount of perpetual debt being heaped on the people of this country that’s the problem or is the issue really who’s name is on it? 

And what about the Democrats? They spent 8 years whining and caterwauling about the national debt and how President Bush was adding to it, and now when President Obama introduces a $787 billion increase to the national debt its okay because he’s a Democrat? Where is the integrity here? Either something is wrong or it isn’t.  

The Republicans are all patting themselves on the back for standing together and voting against the stimulus bill but that means very little to me. Those are the same people who held tight to party lines when Medicare was expanded—dumping billions more dollars into an already bankrupt system. They held tight to party lines when billions of dollars in new spending went to President Bush’s education plan. They held tight to party lines with Immigration when President Bush ignored over half the country and tried to give millions of illegal aliens citizenship. And they stood on their party lines when they passed $700 billion of bailouts adding to the public debt which we the people are forced to pay. Party lines is just another term for bad legislation. What’s wrong is wrong regardless of whose name is on it. 

You know who I really have respect for—the handful of Democrats who had the courage to vote against the Stimulus bill when their whole party was pressuring them to vote “party lines”.  

The problems our country faces are not Democrat or Republican. The problem is a power hungry congress who cares more about which party is the White House than the character of the person who fills the office and which party has control of Congress instead of the people they are elected to serve and the Constitution they are sworn to uphold. 

Congress is in a quagmire. It is an eternal stalemate of pointing fingers, slinging insults, and constant power struggles. The only time the two parties get along is when they are voting themselves a raise or new benefit package. 

Republicans are now coming out of the word-work offering solutions to the problems we face today. But why did they wait until our nation was at the brink of disaster to stand up for what’s right? They had control of Congress for 12 years and what do they have to show for it?  

And what about all the change the democrats were offering us? What about accountability and transparency. If they were so all fired up about change then why are they doing all the same things? 

It is time we said enough is enough. We have tried the changing of the guard. It doesn’t work. There is no longer any difference in the parties. They are virtually the same. So who is speaking for us? 

There is no accountability in Congress. There is no transparency. And the only way we are going to get it is to vote both parties out in 2010. It is time we stop voting by letters and started voted our conscience. It is time we vote for people not parties and issues not politics. We don’t need anymore politicians in Washington or anywhere else in this country. We need statesman—men and women who understand the fundamental principles and guiding values this nation was founded on—men and women who have the courage to stand up for those principles no matter what the cost. 

Elected office is not an occupation it is an act of service. Those who are elected are servants of the people not the other way around.   They serve us. We the people are their boss. We hired them and we can fire them. And it is high time we did. We need an almost complete overhaul in congress. We need to stop the trend of Senators ‘til death. The longer they are in Washington the more corruptible they become and the more power they have to infect any new leadership we elect. Nothing will change as long Congress stays the same.  

We need leaders with integrity and moral character who are willing to sacrifice their lives, fortunes and sacred honor for the public good—men and women who are committed to fighting for a cause that is greater than themselves.  

It is time we held congress accountable to we the people. We can no longer tolerate a Congress that passes bills without reading them. We can no longer tolerate a congress that disregards the Constitution and ignores the people.  

Our financial system may collapse, the government may crumble but America never will because America is bigger than a government. It is American families united in purpose, filled with the spirit of Freedom. It is the spirit of the people that make America—the plane full of patriots that went down in a Pennsylvania field—the firefighters who walked into a crumbling building when everyone else was running out. The men and women sleeping in tents in 100 degree heat in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is the mothers’ teaching their children, the small business owners fighting for their dream, and the children who place their hands over their hearts to pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.  

America isn’t a president. It isn’t congress. It is right here—with us. It is we the people. We are the life blood of this nation and we the people will no longer be ignored. 

God bless you all for being here. Today you are telling Congress Enough is Enough and we are not going to take it anymore.