Calendar – March Meetings/Meet Ups
March 1, 2010 by cvarley
Filed under Event, What's Brewing
The Greater Boston Tea Party is expanding daily. Here is the list of our upcoming Meet Ups. We welcome all members and any interested in learning more about the “Tea Party” in general – or at least our version of it. As always, these are somewhat informal, as we have new people attending every month. We have a brief agenda but mostly this is a chance to get together, have a drink, a snack or a meal and enjoy discussing politics, policy, past, present and future, with other patriots. Bonus – many candidates are showing up!
Tuesday, March 2nd – Reading, Bertucci’s, 45 Walkers Brook Drive 7:00 – 9:00 PM
Thursday, March 11th – Boston, Green Dragon, 11 Marshall Street 7:30 – 9:30 PM
Thursday, March 18th – Waltham, The Tea Leaf, 487 Moody Street 7:00 – 9:00 PM
Tuesday, March 23rd – Norton, Trinity, 184 W. Main Street 7:00 – 9:00 PM
*******Venue Change*******
Tuesday, March 23rd – Rockland, Cape Cod restaurant, 979 Main St. Brockton 7:00 – 9:00 PM
Click on the town name to go to link on our Meet Up page and RSVP. Or join us on Facebook.
***Coming soon – Framingham location, Cape Ann, Marlboro & Norwood!
Will there be any Tea Party Meetups other than than Tues & Thurs?
I would love to be involved but have class on those nights.
Keeping the focus in the area.
During the height of the Forced Busing Movement in Boston, many of the anti-forced busing activists traveled to Washington,, D.C. These well-intentioned activists thought that a large show of strength at the nation’s capitol would help lead to the reversal of court ordered forced busing. Hundreds of folks from Boston spend scarce resources on bus rentals, hotels and meals. They marched, got some sound bites on the nightly news, but there own members of Congress wouldn’t take the time to meet with them.
A Congressman from Georgia,however, did meet with the leaders of Boston’s anti-busing delegation. His name was Larry MacDonald, a Democrat, who had sponsored a bill to end all court ordered forced busing. The Congressman was a staunch Constitutionalists. His bill would have overturned Judge Garrity’s decision, and using a little known provision in Article 3 of the U.S. Constitution, it would have excluded any review from the U.S. Supreme Court.
Congressman MacDonald explained to them that the money that spent going to D.C,. could have been used to fund the campaigns of several Constitutionalsits in Massachusetts as well as help educate the voters in these districts. He pointed out a very effective tool called the TRIM bulletin that exposed the voting records of members of Congress. The anti-busing leaders didn’t heed MacDonald’s advice.
We are experiencing something very unique and unprecedented. Let’s not waste valuable money and time traveling to D.C.. Let’s use our resourses wisely. Every single member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts-and this includes Steve Lynch-are advocates of the all-powerful state. They are a big part of the problem. They get returned to office because our family members, friends and neighbors keep on electing them. Let’s use our limited resourses to help educate and inform those folks while we find and support candidates who will uphold the U.S. Constitution.
Hal Shurtleff