Mediaboss Marketing

Our Vision Issues Core IssuesOther IssuesNews My Government Read The BillLegislative UpdatesMy Legislators Take Action Discussions Calls to Action Events Groups Resources What we stand for... Tea Party Patriots stands for every American, and is home to millions who have come together to pursue the American Dream and to keep that Dream alive for their children and grandchildren. Learn More > DONATE Login | Register Tea Party Patriots Sues IRS and Treasury for Documents Regarding 501(c)4 Regulations

Tea Party Patriots Sues IRS and Treasury for Documents Regarding 501(c)4 Regulations Lawsuit Seeks Documents on Lois Lerner, Administrations Secret Planning to Impose Restrictions on Citizens Speech; Plans Additional Demands for Information Regarding IRS Attempts to Revise and Reissue Speech

Related News >

The complexity, the extortion, the cronyism, the cost, the uncertainty, the corruption, the lack of transparency, and the targeting. These are just some of the reasons we must fundamentally alter our tax system with deep and systemic reforms. Attempts at

Read More > April 15

First, it was skyrocketing premiums. Then, it was non-compliant plans. Now, the far-reaching effects of Obamacare are coming to a vending machine near you. Food labeling regulations, namely Section 4205 of the Affordable Care Act, were finalized on April 3

Read More > April 15

This year, lets do more than just silently watch another Tax Day come and go. If were going to push our representatives in Washington to enact serious reforms at the Internal Revenue Service and in the current tax code, we

Read More > April 14

* These fields are required.

See the rest here:
Tea Party Patriots - Official Site

ST. CHARLES Politicians, policymakers and grassroots organizers Tuesday gathered at the Arcada Theater to urge residents to get involved.

Attendees at the Sixth Annual Chicago and Illinois Tax Day Tea Party nearly filled the theaters floor seating and balcony.

They heard from more than 12 speakers, some of which promoted their candidacies and nearly all of which spoke to the Tea Partys values of fiscal responsibility, limited government and free markets.

The event is usually held in cold weather outdoors in Chicago, but the party opted to hold it indoors this year, said Denise Cattoni, founder of the Illinois Tea Party.

Among the first speakers was Senate candidate and State Sen. Jim Oberweis, R-Sugar Grove. He told the crowd that government taxes too much and spends too much.

All of us as individuals can make much better use of the dollars ... let us spend those dollars, and thatll help get the economy going, Oberweis said.

Other guests included Joe Walsh, former U.S. congressman and current talk show host of AM560 The Answer. Elgin resident Todd Hartwell, who attended the event with his wife, Tish, said he enjoyed hearing Walsh speak.

Hartwell said he has been a member of the Elgin Tea Party for about six years. He said the nations citizens have been asleep too long and the tea party can help wake them up.

Hartwell said being in the tea party is about being moral and following the Constitution. Like Hartwell, Batavia resident Judy Fanizza also has attended several local tea party rallies. During Tuesdays event, she picked up a yard sign promoting Paul Schimpf for Illinois Attorney General.

Fanizza said she will be sworn in today as a Batavia Township precinct committeeman. She did not always envision herself in politics, but after joining the tea party five years ago she decided to be part of making change in government.

Read more here:
Tea Party pushes for change at rally

LIBERTY TWP.

Its been 11 months since the IRS admitted they had unfairly targeted particular politically active and conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt nonprofit status, and four years since Liberty Twp. Tea Party applied for that status.

On Monday, members of the tea party group received an update on its lawsuit that prompted scandal within the IRS. The IRS is still being scrutinized for targeting groups applying for 501c3 and 501c4 tax-exempt status as committee hearings on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., are still ongoing.

The American Center for Law and Justice, a nonprofit conservative legal organization that operates on donations, filed suit last year against the IRS on behalf of the Liberty Twp. Tea Party and 40 other conservative clients in 22 states.

In an exclusive interview with the Journal-News, Jordan Sekulow, ACLJ executive director, said the Liberty Twp. Tea Party is one of 11 tea party groups that have yet to get an answer on the status of its 501c3 application.

Effectively, the IRS stalled these applicants out, he said. A lot of these groups we represent, not all of them, this effectively shut them down. Some reorganized later on because they realized what happened.

The IRS admitted last year that specific groups, based on key words in their nonprofit request applications, were targeted for closer scrutiny. Most of the groups were right-leaning groups, such as ones with tea party or patriot in their names. The issues started in the Cincinnati office, but Sekulow said it was a system-wide problem that went all the way to the top, and it was unfair to blame people in Cincinnati for when it was Washington bureaucrats who was making it impossible for the people (in the Cincinnati and similar offices) to get the job done.

The Journal-News reached out to the IRS for comment, but IRS spokeswoman Jennifer Jenkins declined to comment, saying that agency rules prevent employees from discussing confidential matters of a persons or organizations tax status.

The Liberty Twp. Tea Party was founded in summer 2009 and applied for the 501c3 tax-exempt status in May 2010. Liberty Twp. Tea Party member Susan McLaughlin said its been frustrating to have to wait.

The inability of the IRS to make a timely decision, their intrusive illegal politically motivated questioning that went what was beyond reasonable proves to us that our bureaucracies are bloated and our representatives have failed miserably in controlling the agencies they have created, she said. Our right to free speech and assembly has been abridged.

Read the original post:
Liberty Twp. Tea Party one of 11 without yes or no on tax-exempt status

SACRAMENTO-

The Tea Party didnt want our state leaders to forget they havent gone anywhere on Tax Day.

We have been hearing in the news that the Tea Partys gone, the tea parties irrelevant, we arent really doing anything. Oh yes, we are, Northern California Tea Party coodinator Ginny Rapini said.

Tea Partiers say the aredemanding stateand federal leaders to do their jobs, or they will find ways to remove them from office.

We dont do many of the big rallies anymore because we are busy working under the radar, getting conservative people in local office, Rapini said.

Tuesday,hundreds marched in the 6th-annual Tax Day Rally, many in fear of the direction the State of California and federal government is moving.

We are wasting our money on taxes I dont agree with, protesterBecky Clover said.

The demonstration was also designed to rally the conservatives into becoming more politically active in California. Organizers want aconservative agenda to have a chance of beating out aliberal one.

We are getting Obamacare forced upon us, we are getting more taxes imposed upon us, we are getting high speed rail imposed upon us, protestor Tim Wiederhold said. There are so many other projects that are more important than what our state senate is spending on.

See original here:
Tea Party Rallies at California State Capitol

Sorry, Nevada rancher guy, youre no Obamacare.

The story of Cliven Bundy, the rancher who stood up to the Bureau of Land Management after it rounded up his cattle over years of unpaid grazing fees, is getting lots of attention. Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck have interviewed him on their shows. Fox Newss The Five debated his actions. The Drudge Report is giving prominent play to all the latest Bundy coverage.

Its got all the elements of a made-for-cable-TV fight especially the element of a powerful federal government overplaying its hand, and freedom-living citizens standing up in protest.

But is Bundy really the guy the right wants as its new hero? And is his fight against big government going to turn national, or is it just an interesting, high-traffic story?

(Also on POLITICO: Reid: Ranch standoff 'not over')

So far, all signs suggest that national Republicans and tea party officials arent about to jump on the Bundy bandwagon. After all, if they want to rally voters against big government, they already have Obamacare for that.

Compare and contrast: With Obamacare, Republicans and tea party groups can talk about people being forced out of health coverage that they liked, higher premiums to meet the laws new coverage standards, constant changes in the rules by the Obama administration and, of course, the hated individual mandate.

With the ranch standoff, they can talk about how a powerful federal agency took a guys cows in an operation they blandly called a cattle gather instead of solving the problem, say, any other way.

(Also on POLITICO: Bundy to sheriffs: 'Disarm' the BLM)

But they also have to talk about a guy who didnt pay his grazing fees for more than 20 years, in a state where the federal government owns 86 percent of the land, and where other ranchers just go ahead and pay the fees.

Continue reading here:
Tea party to rancher: Happy trails