awww-Tea Party Patriots were nice enough to send me some info on 912

[w8liftinglady]

http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/cs_20100911_8855.php?mrefid=site_search

How Tea Party Organizes Without Leaders
By embracing radical decentralization, tea party activists intend to rewrite the rule book for political organizing.

Though headless, the tea party movement is not mindless. Its collective brain meets every Monday night.

More than 200 leaders of local tea parties -- coordinators, as they usually call themselves -- join a conference call every week organized by an umbrella group called the Tea Party Patriots, the largest national tea party organization. On one Monday recently, three national coordinators begin the session with a rundown on plans for upcoming rallies. The events are expensive; does anyone have a problem with a search for $1,000 donors? (No one does.) An organizer has put together a manual on what to ask candidates at town hall events. ("That will go to the entire e-mail list.")
more at site

[w8liftinglady]

1. Line Feed of St Louis

http://www.teapartypatriots.org/StLouis.aspx

[HopeHoops]

2. Mail them a used tea bag with "FUCK YOU, ASSHOLES" written on it.

Please put it in a zip-lock snack bag to be kind to the postal workers.

[w8liftinglady]

3. lol..have you been going through my mail?

[HopeHoops]

5. No, but I'm saving used teabags for a mass mailing.

:evilgrin:

[w8liftinglady]

6. hehe.....

[SpiralHawk]

4. Corporate-coordinated sockpuppetry (R)

what a novel idea...

[gratuitous]

7. "Decentralization" through three national coordinators

I do not think that word means what the National Journal thinks it means.

The teabaggers are not some organic, grass-roots organization any more than its parent, the Republican Party is. The message and the issues are tightly controlled, and deciding what those are doesn't happen out of some free-for-all process, but is dispensed and proscribed by the bag men at the top. How does the federal deficit become the teabaggers' number one issue? Or the prospect of the wealthy being asked to pay a little more to support the political system that puts so much money into their pockets? No, these aren't issues that some malleable retiree on Medicare-provided oxygen has front and center, except by diktat.

[mwooldri]

8. There is no such thing as decentralization of anything.

There always has to be a "gatekeeper". In the Open Source Software world, there may be masses of people looking over code and fixing bugs, but there's always a team or even a single individual who says what stays and what goes.

The "Tea Party Patriots" are the TP Gatekeepers so to speak. There is a head of the Tea Party... just that the main individual or small group of individuals want to remain invisible. At some point, they will be revealed.