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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 05:39 PM Mar 2017

Indivisible Clay activist movement taps into national sentiment

JACKSONVILLE – The latest salvo against President Donald J. Trump’s agenda comes from the most conservative county in Florida.

Shortly after the President’s inauguration, a small contingency of citizens banded together to form Indivisible Clay, Clay County’s chapter of a growing nationwide network of activists who have vowed to attend congressional town hall meetings to make their voices heard – sometimes loudly.

What has unfolded is a series of wildly contentious town hall meetings held by representatives and senators across the country.

The Tea Party used the same guerilla-citizen politics in the summer of 2009 to oppose former President Barack Obama’s health care reforms and stimulus packages.

http://www.claytodayonline.com/stories/indivisible-clay-activist-movement-taps-into-national-sentiment,5969
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Indivisible Clay activist movement taps into national sentiment (Original Post) SecularMotion Mar 2017 OP
I wish the media would stop comparing Indivisible murielm99 Mar 2017 #1
Agreed. guillaumeb Mar 2017 #2

murielm99

(30,733 posts)
1. I wish the media would stop comparing Indivisible
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 06:02 PM
Mar 2017

and the other groups to the teahadists. The groups cropping up now are truly grassroots. They are growing through social media and word of mouth. They are not funded by wealthy Democrats. The tea baggers were funded by wealthy repubbies. Any time these groups are compared to the tea baggers, we need to correct the entity making the comparison.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
2. Agreed.
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 06:05 PM
Mar 2017

Americans for Prosperity was the main funding source for the Tea Party movement. Koch money controlled by Dick Armey. But somehow the corporate media never discovered that fact.

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