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Tea Party protests

January 01, 1970

This article is about the 21st-century protests themselves. For the Tea Party movement as an ongoing entity, see Tea Party movement. For protests in colonial America, see Boston Tea Party, Chestertown Tea Party, Edenton Tea Party and Philadelphia Tea Party.

The Tea Party protests were a series of protests throughout the United States that began in early 2009. The protests were part of the larger political Tea Party movement.[1] Most Tea Party activities have since been focused on opposing efforts of the Obama administration, and on recruiting, nominating, and supporting candidates for state and national elections.[2][3] The name "Tea Party" is a reference to the Boston Tea Party, whose principal aim was to protest taxation without representation.[4][5] Tea Party protests evoked images, slogans and themes from the American Revolution, such as tri-corner hats and yellow Gadsden "Don't Tread on Me" flags.[6][7] The letters T-E-A have been used by some protesters to form the backronym "Taxed Enough Already".[8]

Tea Party protests
Part of response to government social and fiscal policies
DatePredominately 2009–2010
Location
United States
Caused byGovernment spending and red tape, national debt, taxation, social liberalism
GoalsGovernment adherence to the Constitution, reduce taxation, reduce spending and waste, social conservatism
Methods
StatusEnded
A Tea Party protest in Hartford, Connecticut, on April 15, 2009
Tea Party protesters on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol and the National Mall on September 12, 2009

Commentators promoted Tax Day events on various blogs, Twitter, and Facebook, while the Fox News Channel regularly featured televised programming leading into and promoting various protest activities.[9] Reaction to the tea parties included counter-protests expressing support for the Obama administration, and dismissive or mocking media coverage of both the events and their promoters.[9][10]

List of events edit

Among other events, protests were held on:

History edit

 
A Tea Party protester holds a sign saying "Remember: Dissent is Patriotic" at a Nashville Tea Party on February 27, 2009.
See also: Taxation history of the United States

The theme of the Boston Tea Party, an iconic event of American history, has long been used by anti-tax protesters with libertarian and conservative viewpoints.[17][18][19][20][21] It was part of Tax Day protests held throughout the 1990s and earlier.[22][23][24] The libertarian theme of the "tea party" protest has also been used by Republican Congressman Ron Paul and his supporters during fundraising events in the primaries of the 2008 presidential campaign to emphasize fiscal conservatism, which they later claimed laid the groundwork for the modern-day Tea Party movement.[25][26][27][28][29][30] In late 2008, Young Americans for Liberty, with the endorsement of Rep. Paul, organized a protest called the Binghamton Tea Party for January 24 of the following year where participants dressing in Native American costumes and dumping soft drinks into New York's Susquehanna River, as a protest of former NY Governor David Paterson's proposed 18% tax increase on soda.[31][32][33] As home mortgage foreclosures increased, and details of the 2009 stimulus legislation became known, more organized protests began to emerge.[34][35][36]

"Porkulus" protests and "First Tea Party" claims edit

The dominant theme seen at some of the earliest anti-stimulus protests was "pork" rather than tea.[37] The term "porkulus" was coined by radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh on his January 27, 2009, broadcast,[38] in reference to both the 2009 stimulus bill, which had been introduced to the House of Representatives the day before, as well as to pork-barrel spending and earmarks.[39] The term proved very popular with conservative politicians and commentators,[40] who began to unify in opposition against stimulus spending after the 2008 general election.[41]

Competing claims have emerged over which protest was actually the first to organize. According to FreedomWorks state and federal campaigns director Brendan Steinhauser,[42][43] activist Mary Rakovich[44] was the organizer of a February 10 protest in Fort Myers, Florida, calling it the "first protest of President Obama's administration that we know of. It was the first protest of what became the tea party movement."[45] Rakovich, along with six to ten others, protested outside a townhall meeting featuring President Obama and Florida governor Charlie Crist.[46] Interviewed by a local reporter, Rakovich explained that she "thinks the government is wasting way too much money helping people receive high definition TV signals" and that "Obama promotes socialism, although 'he doesn't call it that'".[46] Regarding the role Freedomworks played in the demonstration, Rakovich acknowledged they were involved "right from the start,"[47] and said that in her 21⁄2 hour training session, she was taught how to attract more supporters and was specifically advised not to focus on President Obama.[48]

New York Times journalist Kate Zernike reports that some within the Tea Party credit Seattle blogger and conservative activist Keli Carender with organizing the first Tea Party on February 16, 2009.[49] An article written by Chris Good of The Atlantic credits Carender as "one of the first" Tea Party organizers.[50]

Carendar organized what she called a "Porkulus Protest" on President's Day, a few days before Rick Santelli used the phrase "Tea Party" in what has been characterized as a "rant" broadcast from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.[51][52]

Carender contacted conservative author and Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin in order to gain her support and publicize the event. Malkin promoted the protest in several posts on her blog, saying that "There should be one of these in every town in America", and that she would be supplying the crowd with a meal of pulled pork. The protest was held in Seattle on Presidents Day, 2009.[53] Malkin encouraged her readers to stage similar events in Denver on the following day where President Obama was scheduled to sign the stimulus bill into law.

A protest at the Denver Capitol Building was already scheduled to coincide with the bill signing. Malkin reported that it was organized by the conservative advocacy group Americans for Prosperity and spearheaded by the conservative activist group Independence Institute, as well as former Republican representative and presidential candidate Tom Tancredo.[54][55][56] Another protest organized by local conservative talk radio station KFYI was held in suburban Phoenix, Arizona, on February 18, and brought 500 protesters.[57] KFYI organized the protest in reaction to Obama's visit to the local high school to hold his first public talk on elements of the stimulus bill.[58] By February 20, Malkin was using her nationally syndicated column in an attempt to present these three protests as a movement to her fellow conservatives, continuing to call for more. "There's something in the air", she wrote, "It's the smell of roasted pork."[59]

Birth of the national Tea Party movement edit

On February 19, 2009,[40] in a broadcast from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, CNBC Business News Network editor Rick Santelli loudly criticized the government plan to refinance mortgages as "promoting bad behavior" by "subsidizing losers' mortgages", and raised the possibility of putting together a "Chicago Tea Party in July".[60][61] A number of the traders and brokers around him cheered on his proposal, to the apparent amusement of the hosts in the studio. It was called "the rant heard round the world".[62] Santelli's remarks "set the fuse to the modern anti-Obama Tea Party movement", according to journalist Lee Fang.[63]

The following day after Santelli's comments from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, 50 national conservative leaders, including Michael Johns, Amy Kremer and Jenny Beth Martin, participated in a conference call that gave birth to the national Tea Party movement.[64][65] In response to Santelli, websites such as ChicagoTeaParty.com, registered in August 2008 by Chicago radio producer Zack Christenson, were live within twelve hours.[66] About 10 hours after Santelli's remarks, reTeaParty.com was bought to coordinate Tea Parties scheduled for the 4th of July and within two weeks was reported to be receiving 11,000 visitors a day.[66] However, on the contrary, many scholars are reluctant to label Santelli's remarks the "spark" of the Tea Party considering that a "Tea Party" protest had taken place 3 days before in Seattle, Washington[67] In fact, this had led many opponents of the Tea Party to define this movement as "astroturfed," but it seems as if Santelli's comments did not "fall on deaf ears" considering that, "the top 50 counties in foreclosure rates played host to over 910 Tea Party protests, about one-sixth of the total"[67]

Also on February 19, Young Americans for Liberty NY State Chairman Trevor Leach created a Facebook page called "The Capitalist Chicago Tea Party – Rick's Revolution", in response to Santelli's call for a national Tea Party.[68][69] According to The Huffington Post, a Facebook page was developed on February 20 calling for Tea Party protests across the country.[70] Eric Odom of the conservative activist group FreedomWorks was one of the group administrators, and it was created by Phil Kerpen from the conservative advocacy organization Americans for Prosperity. Soon, the "Nationwide Chicago Tea Party" protests were coordinated across over 40 different cities for February 27, 2009, establishing the first national modern Tea Party protest.[71][72]

Protests edit

Tax day events edit

 
Tea Party protesters in Louisville, Kentucky, on April 15, 2009
 
Tea Party Protest in Dallas, Texas - April 15, 2009

April 15, 2009 is said to have been the day that had the largest number of tea party demonstrations reportedly in more than 750 cities.[73] Estimates of protesters and locations varied. The Christian Science Monitor reported on the difficulties of calculating a cumulative turnout and said some estimates state that over half a million Americans participated in the protests, noting, "experts say the counting itself often becomes politicized as authorities, organizers, and attendees often come up with dramatically different counts."[74][75] Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, estimated that at least 268,000 attended in over 200 cities.[76] Statistician Nate Silver, manager of FiveThirtyEight.com, has said that a cumulative crowd size estimate from credible sources was of 311,460 attendees in 346 cities, which accounted for all capitols and major cities little noticeable or no reliable media coverage in other protests could have contributed to a lower number of attendees and locations.[77] The largest event, in Atlanta, drew between an estimated 7,000 to 15,000 protesters.[77][78][79] Some of the gatherings drew only dozens.[74]

On April 15, 2009, a Tea Party protest outside the White House was moved after a box of tea bags was hurled over the White House fence. Police sealed off the area and evacuated some people. The Secret Service brought out a bomb-detecting robot, which determined the package was not a threat.[80] Approximately one thousand people had demonstrated, several waved placards saying "Stop Big Government" and "Taxation is Piracy".[12]

Spring and early summer protests edit

 
Tea Party Protest in Dallas, Texas - April, 2009

Tea Party rallies continued in various locales around the nation. Many of these events were focused on opposition to state or local taxes and spending, rather than with national issues. Late April saw Tea Parties in Annapolis, Maryland, White Plains, New York,[81] Jackson, Tennessee,[82] and Monroe, Washington.[83] In May, there were six more Tea Party events in Tennessee,[citation needed] New York,[84] Idaho,[85] Ohio,[86] Nevada,[87] and North Carolina.[88] During June 2009, another dozen events were held in North Carolina,[89] California,[90] Rhode Island,[91] Texas,[92] Ohio,[93] Michigan,[94] Montana,[95] Florida,[96] New York,[97] and Washington State.[98] On June 29, 2009, in Nashville, Tennessee, four thousand people rallied against proposed emissions trading (cap and trade) energy in Congress and universal health care.[99]

Independence Day rallies edit

A number of Tea Party protests were held the weekend of July 4, 2009, coinciding with Independence Day.[100][101] "The rally followed a national effort that drew thousands of activists to Tea Party events across the country on April 15, 2009, when income taxes are due."[102]

On July 17, 2009, there were additional Tea Party protests around the nation organized by a group called Tea Party Patriots, this time against President Obama's proposed health care overhaul that they labeled socialized medicine.[103]

Taxpayer March on Washington edit

 
Protesters walking towards the United States Capitol during the Taxpayer March on Washington on September 12, 2009
Main article: Taxpayer March on Washington

On September 12, 2009, Tea Party protests were held in various cities around the nation. In Washington, D.C., Tea Party protests gathered to march from Freedom Plaza to the United States Capitol. Estimates of the number of attendees varied, from "tens of thousands"[14] to "in excess of 75,000".[104][105] A rally organizer asserted that one local ABC News station had reported attendance of over one million, but he retracted the statement after ABC News denied making any such report.[106]

Using the counts of those in attendance, the march may have been the largest conservative protest ever held in Washington, D.C., as well as the largest demonstration against President Obama's administration to date.[107][108]

First Tea Party convention edit

On February 4, 2010, the first Tea Party national convention was held in Nashville, attended by 600 people.[109] The convention received broad media coverage as former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was the featured speaker. Some tea partiers condemned the event, questioning the main sponsor, Tea Party Nation, a for-profit group, as well as the several hundred dollar ticket price. The former Alaska governor was criticized[110][111] for receiving as much as $100,000 to address the convention.[112]

Tactics edit

The New York Times reported on August 8, 2009, that organizations opposed to the President Obama's health care legislation were urging opponents to be disruptive. It noted that the Tea Party Patriots web site circulated a memo instructing them to "Pack the hall. Yell out and challenge the Rep's statements early. Get him off his prepared script and agenda. Stand up and shout and sit right back down." The memo continued, "The Rep [representative] should be made to feel that a majority, and if not, a significant portion of at least the audience, opposes the socialist agenda of Washington."[113]

Some Tea Party organizers have stated that they look to leftist Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals for inspiration. Protesters have also appropriated left-wing imagery; the logo for the March 9/12 on Washington featured a raised fist design that was intended to resemble those used by the pro-labor, anti-war, and black power movements of the 1960s. In addition, the slogan "Keep Your Laws Off My Body", usually associated with pro-choice activists, has been seen on signs at tea parties.[114]

On April 8, 2010, it was announced that the National Tea Party Federation had been set up to publicize the movement, and organizers said it would issue news releases, respond to critics and help get the word out about tea party rallies and initiatives.[115] Tea Party activist Mark Skoda noted the slow response to critics who have charged the protesters with racism, stating: "It took us 72 hours to respond to John Lewis... We're not needing to meet every week. But there will now be a way to have a call to arms to respond to attacks with a crisp and clear message."[115][116]

Reports of abusive behavior edit

There have been allegations of racism and abusive behavior by Tea Party protesters.[117][118][119][120][121]

On March 16, 2010, at a Tea Party protest at the Ohio offices of Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, a counter-protester with Parkinson's disease was berated by one of the protesters and had dollar bills thrown at him with additional protesters also mocking the individual.[122] The man initially denied the incident, but later apologized for his "shameful" actions.[121]

On March 20, 2010, it was reported that protesters against proposed health care legislation used racial and anti-gay slurs. Gay Congressman Barney Frank was called "homo" and a "faggot several times."[123][124][125] Several black lawmakers said demonstrators shouted "the N-word" at them.[126] Congressman André Carson said that as he walked from the Cannon House Office Building with Representative John Lewis and his chief of staff, amid chants of "Kill the bill", he heard the "n-word" about fifteen times coming from several places in the crowd: "One guy, I remember he just rattled it off several times. Then John looks at me and says, 'You know, this reminds me of a different time.'"[123][127][128] Congressman Emanuel Cleaver said that, as he walked several yards behind Lewis, he distinctly heard "nigger", and he was also spat upon by a protester while walking up the stairs of the Cannon Building, although whether the spitting was intentional has been questioned.[123][124][128]

Conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart, who wasn't at the protests,[128] said the incidents reported by Cleaver, Lewis and Carson were fabricated as part of a plan to annihilate the Tea Party movement by all means necessary and that they never actually happened. He offered to donate $10,000 to the United Negro College Fund if Lewis could provide audio or video footage of the slurs, or pass a lie detector test. The amount was later raised to $100,000 for "hard evidence".[128][129][130] In addition, the National Tea Party Federation sent a letter to the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) denouncing racism and requesting that the CBC supply any evidence of the alleged events at the protest.[116]

Representative Heath Shuler of North Carolina, who is white, backed up his colleagues, telling the Hendersonville (N.C.) Times-News that he too heard slurs.[128] Richard Trumka, president of the AFL–CIO, corroborated Lewis' version of events during a confrontation with Breitbart at a Harvard Institute of Politics forum by saying, "I watched them spit at people, I watched them call John Lewis the N-word. [...] I witnessed it. I saw it in person. That's real evidence."[131][132][133] One of Representative Anthony Weiner's staffers reported a stream of hostile encounters with tea partiers roaming the halls of Congress. In addition to mockery, protesters left a couple of notes behind. According to the New York Daily News, one letter "asked what Rahm Emanuel did with Weiner in the shower", in a reference to the harassment claims against ex-Rep Eric Massa. It was signed with a swastika, the staffer said. The other note called the congressman "Schlomo Weiner".[120]

Kate Zernike, author of Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America, has observed, "Rather than explain it as a fringe of the movement, which they plausibly might have, they argued that the ugliness had never happened. Wasn't it suspicious, they asked, that there was no video of spitting or slurs, in an age when everyone's cell phone has a camera? It was difficult, if not disingenuous, for the Tea Party groups to try to disown the behavior."[134] Politicians from both political parties, black conservative activists and columnists have argued that allegations of racism do not reflect the movement as a whole.[135][136][137][138]

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Further reading edit

  • Flanders, Laura (2010). At the Tea Party. New York: OR Press. ISBN 978-1-935928-23-2.
  • Lepore, Jill (2010). The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-3696-3.
  • Gladney, Henry M. , 2014.

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This article is about the 21st century protests themselves For the Tea Party movement as an ongoing entity see Tea Party movement For protests in colonial America see Boston Tea Party Chestertown Tea Party Edenton Tea Party and Philadelphia Tea Party The Tea Party protests were a series of protests throughout the United States that began in early 2009 The protests were part of the larger political Tea Party movement 1 Most Tea Party activities have since been focused on opposing efforts of the Obama administration and on recruiting nominating and supporting candidates for state and national elections 2 3 The name Tea Party is a reference to the Boston Tea Party whose principal aim was to protest taxation without representation 4 5 Tea Party protests evoked images slogans and themes from the American Revolution such as tri corner hats and yellow Gadsden Don t Tread on Me flags 6 7 The letters T E A have been used by some protesters to form the backronym Taxed Enough Already 8 Tea Party protestsPart of response to government social and fiscal policiesDatePredominately 2009 2010LocationUnited StatesCaused byGovernment spending and red tape national debt taxation social liberalismGoalsGovernment adherence to the Constitution reduce taxation reduce spending and waste social conservatismMethodsPicketing Demonstrations Internet activism Direct action Mass strikeStatusEnded A Tea Party protest in Hartford Connecticut on April 15 2009 Tea Party protesters on the West Lawn of the U S Capitol and the National Mall on September 12 2009 Commentators promoted Tax Day events on various blogs Twitter and Facebook while the Fox News Channel regularly featured televised programming leading into and promoting various protest activities 9 Reaction to the tea parties included counter protests expressing support for the Obama administration and dismissive or mocking media coverage of both the events and their promoters 9 10 Contents 1 List of events 2 History 2 1 Porkulus protests and First Tea Party claims 2 2 Birth of the national Tea Party movement 3 Protests 3 1 Tax day events 3 2 Spring and early summer protests 3 3 Independence Day rallies 3 4 Taxpayer March on Washington 3 5 First Tea Party convention 4 Tactics 5 Reports of abusive behavior 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksList of events editAmong other events protests were held on February 27 2009 to protest the Troubled Assets Relief Program TARP U S financial system bailouts signed by President George W Bush in October 2008 and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 stimulus legislation signed by President Barack Obama 11 April 15 2009 to coincide with the annual U S deadline for submitting tax returns known as Tax Day 12 6 July 4 2009 to coincide with Independence Day 13 September 12 2009 to coincide with the anniversary of the day after the September 11 attacks 14 November 5 2009 in Washington D C to protest health insurance reform 15 March 14 21 2010 in D C during the final week of debate on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 16 History edit nbsp A Tea Party protester holds a sign saying Remember Dissent is Patriotic at a Nashville Tea Party on February 27 2009 See also Taxation history of the United States The theme of the Boston Tea Party an iconic event of American history has long been used by anti tax protesters with libertarian and conservative viewpoints 17 18 19 20 21 It was part of Tax Day protests held throughout the 1990s and earlier 22 23 24 The libertarian theme of the tea party protest has also been used by Republican Congressman Ron Paul and his supporters during fundraising events in the primaries of the 2008 presidential campaign to emphasize fiscal conservatism which they later claimed laid the groundwork for the modern day Tea Party movement 25 26 27 28 29 30 In late 2008 Young Americans for Liberty with the endorsement of Rep Paul organized a protest called the Binghamton Tea Party for January 24 of the following year where participants dressing in Native American costumes and dumping soft drinks into New York s Susquehanna River as a protest of former NY Governor David Paterson s proposed 18 tax increase on soda 31 32 33 As home mortgage foreclosures increased and details of the 2009 stimulus legislation became known more organized protests began to emerge 34 35 36 Porkulus protests and First Tea Party claims edit The dominant theme seen at some of the earliest anti stimulus protests was pork rather than tea 37 The term porkulus was coined by radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh on his January 27 2009 broadcast 38 in reference to both the 2009 stimulus bill which had been introduced to the House of Representatives the day before as well as to pork barrel spending and earmarks 39 The term proved very popular with conservative politicians and commentators 40 who began to unify in opposition against stimulus spending after the 2008 general election 41 Competing claims have emerged over which protest was actually the first to organize According to FreedomWorks state and federal campaigns director Brendan Steinhauser 42 43 activist Mary Rakovich 44 was the organizer of a February 10 protest in Fort Myers Florida calling it the first protest of President Obama s administration that we know of It was the first protest of what became the tea party movement 45 Rakovich along with six to ten others protested outside a townhall meeting featuring President Obama and Florida governor Charlie Crist 46 Interviewed by a local reporter Rakovich explained that she thinks the government is wasting way too much money helping people receive high definition TV signals and that Obama promotes socialism although he doesn t call it that 46 Regarding the role Freedomworks played in the demonstration Rakovich acknowledged they were involved right from the start 47 and said that in her 21 2 hour training session she was taught how to attract more supporters and was specifically advised not to focus on President Obama 48 New York Times journalist Kate Zernike reports that some within the Tea Party credit Seattle blogger and conservative activist Keli Carender with organizing the first Tea Party on February 16 2009 49 An article written by Chris Good of The Atlantic credits Carender as one of the first Tea Party organizers 50 Carendar organized what she called a Porkulus Protest on President s Day a few days before Rick Santelli used the phrase Tea Party in what has been characterized as a rant broadcast from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange 51 52 Carender contacted conservative author and Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin in order to gain her support and publicize the event Malkin promoted the protest in several posts on her blog saying that There should be one of these in every town in America and that she would be supplying the crowd with a meal of pulled pork The protest was held in Seattle on Presidents Day 2009 53 Malkin encouraged her readers to stage similar events in Denver on the following day where President Obama was scheduled to sign the stimulus bill into law A protest at the Denver Capitol Building was already scheduled to coincide with the bill signing Malkin reported that it was organized by the conservative advocacy group Americans for Prosperity and spearheaded by the conservative activist group Independence Institute as well as former Republican representative and presidential candidate Tom Tancredo 54 55 56 Another protest organized by local conservative talk radio station KFYI was held in suburban Phoenix Arizona on February 18 and brought 500 protesters 57 KFYI organized the protest in reaction to Obama s visit to the local high school to hold his first public talk on elements of the stimulus bill 58 By February 20 Malkin was using her nationally syndicated column in an attempt to present these three protests as a movement to her fellow conservatives continuing to call for more There s something in the air she wrote It s the smell of roasted pork 59 Birth of the national Tea Party movement edit On February 19 2009 40 in a broadcast from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange CNBC Business News Network editor Rick Santelli loudly criticized the government plan to refinance mortgages as promoting bad behavior by subsidizing losers mortgages and raised the possibility of putting together a Chicago Tea Party in July 60 61 A number of the traders and brokers around him cheered on his proposal to the apparent amusement of the hosts in the studio It was called the rant heard round the world 62 Santelli s remarks set the fuse to the modern anti Obama Tea Party movement according to journalist Lee Fang 63 The following day after Santelli s comments from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange 50 national conservative leaders including Michael Johns Amy Kremer and Jenny Beth Martin participated in a conference call that gave birth to the national Tea Party movement 64 65 In response to Santelli websites such as ChicagoTeaParty com registered in August 2008 by Chicago radio producer Zack Christenson were live within twelve hours 66 About 10 hours after Santelli s remarks reTeaParty com was bought to coordinate Tea Parties scheduled for the 4th of July and within two weeks was reported to be receiving 11 000 visitors a day 66 However on the contrary many scholars are reluctant to label Santelli s remarks the spark of the Tea Party considering that a Tea Party protest had taken place 3 days before in Seattle Washington 67 In fact this had led many opponents of the Tea Party to define this movement as astroturfed but it seems as if Santelli s comments did not fall on deaf ears considering that the top 50 counties in foreclosure rates played host to over 910 Tea Party protests about one sixth of the total 67 Also on February 19 Young Americans for Liberty NY State Chairman Trevor Leach created a Facebook page called The Capitalist Chicago Tea Party Rick s Revolution in response to Santelli s call for a national Tea Party 68 69 According to The Huffington Post a Facebook page was developed on February 20 calling for Tea Party protests across the country 70 Eric Odom of the conservative activist group FreedomWorks was one of the group administrators and it was created by Phil Kerpen from the conservative advocacy organization Americans for Prosperity Soon the Nationwide Chicago Tea Party protests were coordinated across over 40 different cities for February 27 2009 establishing the first national modern Tea Party protest 71 72 Protests editTax day events edit nbsp Tea Party protesters in Louisville Kentucky on April 15 2009 nbsp Tea Party Protest in Dallas Texas April 15 2009 April 15 2009 is said to have been the day that had the largest number of tea party demonstrations reportedly in more than 750 cities 73 Estimates of protesters and locations varied The Christian Science Monitor reported on the difficulties of calculating a cumulative turnout and said some estimates state that over half a million Americans participated in the protests noting experts say the counting itself often becomes politicized as authorities organizers and attendees often come up with dramatically different counts 74 75 Grover Norquist president of Americans for Tax Reform estimated that at least 268 000 attended in over 200 cities 76 Statistician Nate Silver manager of FiveThirtyEight com has said that a cumulative crowd size estimate from credible sources was of 311 460 attendees in 346 cities which accounted for all capitols and major cities little noticeable or no reliable media coverage in other protests could have contributed to a lower number of attendees and locations 77 The largest event in Atlanta drew between an estimated 7 000 to 15 000 protesters 77 78 79 Some of the gatherings drew only dozens 74 On April 15 2009 a Tea Party protest outside the White House was moved after a box of tea bags was hurled over the White House fence Police sealed off the area and evacuated some people The Secret Service brought out a bomb detecting robot which determined the package was not a threat 80 Approximately one thousand people had demonstrated several waved placards saying Stop Big Government and Taxation is Piracy 12 Spring and early summer protests edit nbsp Tea Party Protest in Dallas Texas April 2009 Tea Party rallies continued in various locales around the nation Many of these events were focused on opposition to state or local taxes and spending rather than with national issues Late April saw Tea Parties in Annapolis Maryland White Plains New York 81 Jackson Tennessee 82 and Monroe Washington 83 In May there were six more Tea Party events in Tennessee citation needed New York 84 Idaho 85 Ohio 86 Nevada 87 and North Carolina 88 During June 2009 another dozen events were held in North Carolina 89 California 90 Rhode Island 91 Texas 92 Ohio 93 Michigan 94 Montana 95 Florida 96 New York 97 and Washington State 98 On June 29 2009 in Nashville Tennessee four thousand people rallied against proposed emissions trading cap and trade energy in Congress and universal health care 99 Independence Day rallies edit A number of Tea Party protests were held the weekend of July 4 2009 coinciding with Independence Day 100 101 The rally followed a national effort that drew thousands of activists to Tea Party events across the country on April 15 2009 when income taxes are due 102 On July 17 2009 there were additional Tea Party protests around the nation organized by a group called Tea Party Patriots this time against President Obama s proposed health care overhaul that they labeled socialized medicine 103 Taxpayer March on Washington edit nbsp Protesters walking towards the United States Capitol during the Taxpayer March on Washington on September 12 2009 Main article Taxpayer March on Washington On September 12 2009 Tea Party protests were held in various cities around the nation In Washington D C Tea Party protests gathered to march from Freedom Plaza to the United States Capitol Estimates of the number of attendees varied from tens of thousands 14 to in excess of 75 000 104 105 A rally organizer asserted that one local ABC News station had reported attendance of over one million but he retracted the statement after ABC News denied making any such report 106 Using the counts of those in attendance the march may have been the largest conservative protest ever held in Washington D C as well as the largest demonstration against President Obama s administration to date 107 108 First Tea Party convention edit On February 4 2010 the first Tea Party national convention was held in Nashville attended by 600 people 109 The convention received broad media coverage as former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was the featured speaker Some tea partiers condemned the event questioning the main sponsor Tea Party Nation a for profit group as well as the several hundred dollar ticket price The former Alaska governor was criticized 110 111 for receiving as much as 100 000 to address the convention 112 Tactics editThe New York Times reported on August 8 2009 that organizations opposed to the President Obama s health care legislation were urging opponents to be disruptive It noted that the Tea Party Patriots web site circulated a memo instructing them to Pack the hall Yell out and challenge the Rep s statements early Get him off his prepared script and agenda Stand up and shout and sit right back down The memo continued The Rep representative should be made to feel that a majority and if not a significant portion of at least the audience opposes the socialist agenda of Washington 113 Some Tea Party organizers have stated that they look to leftist Saul Alinsky s Rules for Radicals for inspiration Protesters have also appropriated left wing imagery the logo for the March 9 12 on Washington featured a raised fist design that was intended to resemble those used by the pro labor anti war and black power movements of the 1960s In addition the slogan Keep Your Laws Off My Body usually associated with pro choice activists has been seen on signs at tea parties 114 On April 8 2010 it was announced that the National Tea Party Federation had been set up to publicize the movement and organizers said it would issue news releases respond to critics and help get the word out about tea party rallies and initiatives 115 Tea Party activist Mark Skoda noted the slow response to critics who have charged the protesters with racism stating It took us 72 hours to respond to John Lewis We re not needing to meet every week But there will now be a way to have a call to arms to respond to attacks with a crisp and clear message 115 116 Reports of abusive behavior editThere have been allegations of racism and abusive behavior by Tea Party protesters 117 118 119 120 121 On March 16 2010 at a Tea Party protest at the Ohio offices of Rep Mary Jo Kilroy a counter protester with Parkinson s disease was berated by one of the protesters and had dollar bills thrown at him with additional protesters also mocking the individual 122 The man initially denied the incident but later apologized for his shameful actions 121 On March 20 2010 it was reported that protesters against proposed health care legislation used racial and anti gay slurs Gay Congressman Barney Frank was called homo and a faggot several times 123 124 125 Several black lawmakers said demonstrators shouted the N word at them 126 Congressman Andre Carson said that as he walked from the Cannon House Office Building with Representative John Lewis and his chief of staff amid chants of Kill the bill he heard the n word about fifteen times coming from several places in the crowd One guy I remember he just rattled it off several times Then John looks at me and says You know this reminds me of a different time 123 127 128 Congressman Emanuel Cleaver said that as he walked several yards behind Lewis he distinctly heard nigger and he was also spat upon by a protester while walking up the stairs of the Cannon Building although whether the spitting was intentional has been questioned 123 124 128 Conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart who wasn t at the protests 128 said the incidents reported by Cleaver Lewis and Carson were fabricated as part of a plan to annihilate the Tea Party movement by all means necessary and that they never actually happened He offered to donate 10 000 to the United Negro College Fund if Lewis could provide audio or video footage of the slurs or pass a lie detector test The amount was later raised to 100 000 for hard evidence 128 129 130 In addition the National Tea Party Federation sent a letter to the Congressional Black Caucus CBC denouncing racism and requesting that the CBC supply any evidence of the alleged events at the protest 116 Representative Heath Shuler of North Carolina who is white backed up his colleagues telling the Hendersonville N C Times News that he too heard slurs 128 Richard Trumka president of the AFL CIO corroborated Lewis version of events during a confrontation with Breitbart at a Harvard Institute of Politics forum by saying I watched them spit at people I watched them call John Lewis the N word I witnessed it I saw it in person That s real evidence 131 132 133 One of Representative Anthony Weiner s staffers reported a stream of hostile encounters with tea partiers roaming the halls of Congress In addition to mockery protesters left a couple of notes behind According to the New York Daily News one letter asked what Rahm Emanuel did with Weiner in the shower in a reference to the harassment claims against ex Rep Eric Massa It was signed with a swastika the staffer said The other note called the congressman Schlomo Weiner 120 Kate Zernike author of Boiling Mad Inside Tea Party America has observed Rather than explain it as a fringe of the movement which they plausibly might have they argued that the ugliness had never happened Wasn t it suspicious they 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