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Mailing address: Chestertown Tea Party Festival, P.O. Box 526, Chestertown, Maryland 21620

Executive Committee: Sabine Harvey President Lamonte Cooke Vice President Susan McRae Treasurer Stephen Lozar Secretary

Organizing Committee: Bonnie Clark Butch Clark Operations John Dolgos Operations Lena Ellwanger Press Joe Holt Artisans Linda Kuiper Artisans Kate Livie Walking Tours, Raft Race Mary Simmons Parade Hope Thomas Food Vendors Steve Atkinson Social Media Marketing, Photography Aundra Anderson Street Party Andy Goddard Programming Juanita Weiczoreck Programming, Colonial Village Patsy Whiteley Information Booth Jane Nevins Costumes

Please use email to reach the festival committee for any specific questions.

Email: General Information: contact@chestertownteaparty.org Street Party: streetparty@chestertownteaparty.org Costumes: costumes@chestertownteaparty.org Food Concession: (Local Non-Profits Only) food@chestertownteaparty.org Artisans: merchants@chestertownteaparty.org Parade: parade@chestertownteaparty.org Programming: programming@chestertownteaparty.org Distance Run: run@chestertownteaparty.org Walking Tours: walkingtours@chestertownteaparty.org

What we do:

Throughout the year, the festival organizers meet a variety of challenges. Some are particular to the Tea Party and many are shared by all non-profit organizations. Among those shared challenges is the need to provide financial stability while accomplishing the groups mission. Over the years, through good times and bad, the organization has maintained an average of just enough money to seed the following years event. We are happy, therefore, when fellow non-profit organizations also benefit from the festival because we have firsthand understanding of the concern for fundraising. About twenty groups make money by selling food to festival-goers. Together, these groups annually make more than $75,000 in funds that are transformed into community services. Consequently, we take pride from the fact that we indirectly contribute to the quality of life we experience in this wonderful place.

Facilitating fundraising, however, is only one facet of the festival. Our mission is to provide a greater understanding of the areas history, which strengthens our local sense of identity and offers a meaningful perspective on our unique past. Throughout the years, thousands of schoolchildren have been inspired to investigate the nations roots because of the reenactment of the Chestertown Tea Party. Our job is heritage education. We understand that with an ongoing infusion of energy and creativity, there is vast potential. We are excited by the possibilities and welcome your help as well as insight.

Producing the festival requires a sacrifice from many, whether money, time, or convenience. We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to all those who have given throughout the years and who continue to offer their support in innumerable ways.

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Wichita 3:51 p.m. CT June 16, 2017

Rush Limbaugh made the statement, The Left is very afraid of the Tea Party. The Tea Party, to a large extent, is what put President Trump into office.

If voters were not actually members, they emulated Tea Party values and beliefs and voted against continuation of the downfall of America. The Tea Party was organized in opposition to anti-constitutional government and has been effective in educating citizens through the years of how our freedoms were being taken away from us through actions of the Federal government, run by Obama and his minions. Tea Party ideology spread, and in 2016, fed up conservatives rose up and defeated the party behind our massive eight year national disaster, a progressive government attack upon our Constitutional Republic.

The down side is that after we voted Republicans into office in Washington, they, for the most part, have failed to get behind their president and follow through on their promises to drain the swamp and reinstall conservative government.

We have RINOs not only in Foggy Bottom, but in all public offices, posing as conservatives but serving the progressives.

The Tea Party is needed again. I know that Wichita County has always been known as a conservative county as has the state of Texas. Apparently, we have had a massive immigration of progressives from the East and the West Coast bringing their political views with them. Texas conservatives should not have to stand alone against these interlopers! Wichita Falls Tea Party meets every first and third Thursday at Red River Harley Davidson Motorcycle in City View. We need you, You need us!

- David K. Reed, Burkburnett

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The Ed Brown Center for Active Adults is inviting the community to attend A Mad Hatters Tea Party from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, June 25 at the center in Rancho Bernardo. The event will include fragrant teas, food, waiters, prizes and entertainment in a kooky, congenial atmosphere.

All ages are welcome to attend. The cost is $35 per person or $240 for a table of eight. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Ed Brown Center for Active Adults (a 501(c) (3) nonprofit corporation) and will be used to support the many programs and activities that serve senior residents of Rancho Bernardo and its surrounding communities.

Members of the Greater San Diego Music Coterie will be singing selections from The Sound of Music, accompanied by piano and guitar. Attendees may be invited to sing along with the group while the Mad Hatter reigns over the festivities. Members of the drama department from Escondidos Classical Academy will appear as characters from the much-loved tale of Alice in Wonderland.

Prizes will be awarded in several categories, including most beautiful hat, craziest chapeau and most beautifully decorated table. Participation is optional, but everyone is encouraged to wear a hat.

Title sponsor for the Tea Party is Casa de las Campanas. Additional community partners are needed to sponsor the event, provide sweet treats to eat or donate prizes for the drawing. If you would like to donate or host a table, call the center at 858-487-9324 or visit http://www.edbrowncenter.org for a complete list of available sponsorships. Contributors will receive recognition on the EBC website, in all media releases, in the event program and in on-stage announcements throughout the event.

Advance reservations are necessary and may be made by calling (858) 487-9324 between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday through Friday, or by coming to the Ed Brown Center, 18402 W. Bernardo Drive, inside Rancho Bernardo Community Park. The registration deadline is Wednesday, June 21.

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Indivisible movement takes hold in Bradenton Bradenton Herald Formed shortly after Trump was elected president in November, staff members for Democratic members of Congress drew up the blueprint for the Indivisible movement. They borrowed freely from the example of the Tea Party movement. And, like the Tea Party ...

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Wednesday morning, I called Greg Aldridge, a longtime leader of the Roanoke Tea Party. I sought his assessment of Tuesdays election. All three Roanoke Tea Party-backed candidates lost Republican primaries for the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors.

One, Hollins Supervisor Al Bedrosian, was an incumbent. Another, Harry Griego, lost two previous GOP primaries. For the third, Scott Faw, this was his first campaign.

What happened? I asked Aldridge.

Are you asking me because you want to discuss it, or is this for something youre writing ? he said.

Im writing about it, I answered.

Heres my 21-word statement. Are you ready to write it down? Aldridge cautioned me to make sure I got every word. I told him I was ready.

Theres no limit to what you can make happen when youre willing to lie to people who trust you, Aldridge said.

What does that mean? I said.

He refused to elaborate, on the record. I was unwilling to discuss it off the record. In politics, people often want to talk off the record when theyre trying to influence what youre writing without taking responsibility for it.

I asked again for an on-the-record explanation.

Were not going to do that, Aldridge said. God bless you, Dan.

He sounded somewhat bitter. Thats understandable. After all, the Roanoke Tea Party has little to show for all the effort its put into local and statewide politics.

The group launched in 2009, not long after former President Barack Obamas first inauguration drew record crowds to the District of Columbia. Tuesdays primary shutout was the latest in an almost unbroken string of Roanoke Tea Party election defeats.

The group scored a win, if you want to call it that, with Bedrosians 2013 election to the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors. He earned the GOP nomination by drawing lots from a bag after a June primary vote tie, and took Novembers three-way general election with less than 50 percent of the vote.

Other Roanoke Tea Party-backed candidates have lost.

In 2010, Mike Powell won two of 33 precincts in an unsuccessful campaign for the Roanoke City Council. In 2011, Tripp Godsey of Raleigh Court fell by a 2-1 margin in a GOP primary for the state Senate. In 2012, Roanoke Tea Party leaders backed E.W. Jackson for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination. Jackson ran fourth among four candidates, pulling only 4.7 percent of the vote.

In June 2013, running against tea party target Joe McNamara, RoxAnne Christley lost by five votes in a Republican primary for Roanoke County supervisor.

That November, Jackson was trounced in a bid for lieutenant governor. His showing was the weakest by far of three Republicans on the statewide ticket. Aldridge and Chip Tarbutton, former Roanoke Tea Party president, ran Jacksons campaign.

In 2014, former Roanoke Tea Party board member Hank Benson ran for the Roanoke City Council and finished seventh in a 10-way race for three seats. In 2015, Roanoke Tea Party member Brian Velkoff lost the GOP nomination for Cave Spring District supervisor.

That year, Griego lost a Republican primary to Chris Head in a House of Delegates race. In 2016, Griego lost the GOP congressional primary, running against Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Roanoke County.

So what happened this year? Aldridge refused to go beyond his statement. But lets hazard some guesses.

One: Roanoke County voters are tired of tea partiers literally tilting at windmills, as they did in opposing electric-generating turbines on Bent Mountain.

Two: Voters have moved on from bizarre conspiracy theories, such as the one about the United Nations trying to take over land use planning in Roanoke County.

Three: The electorate is weary of silly and unnecessary controversies about opening prayers at board of supervisors meetings. Recall in 2014, when Bedrosian refused to stand for a Hindu invocation? In 2015, he did the same with a prayer offered by a gay Christian pastor.

Five: Voters flatly disbelieve that Roanoke County suffers from fiscal mismanagement. All three tea party-backed candidates this year centered their campaigns on that ill-informed argument.

Its little wonder the Roanoke Tea Party went 0-for-3 in Tuesdays low-vote party primaries (the easiest kind for insurgent candidates to win). Over and over again, the group has engaged in the politics of folly, sounding ridiculous and preposterous themes under an arrogant, misguided mantle of constitutional stewardship.

Perhaps the 2016 presidential election caused voters to realize that clownish hucksterism is a rotten substitute for bedrock competence.

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