1st Michigan Tea Party Alliance
"The Grassroots of the Great Lakes!"
Your Gateway to active Tea Party groups in Michigan!
Watching Michigan State Government
Tracking votes that are of concern to tea party issues in Michigan. This a great site to track just what is going on in Michigan Government. Also where you can find the Michigan Tea Party Scorecard from our friends in the Independent Tea Party Patriots. You will want to bookmark this site for sure!
News Headlines
Lugar - OUT AFTER 36 YEARS IN SENATE...
NC votes to ban gay marriage...
"If I wanted America to Fail"...
What ever your faith, this video truly puts into perspective just what is at stake for people of faith with the 2012 election
Andrew Breitbart's final words from the AFP Event in Troy only a few days before he died.
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MI4CS debate with Clark Durant, Gary Glenn, Scotty Boman, Randy Hekman, and Chuck Marino at CMU. If you havent seen the candidates in person, you need to take a look. It is well worth the time.
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Michigan Senate Leadership adopts Pelosi style method of moving bills.
On November 10th, the Michigan Senate moved SB693 to the floor, suspended rules for the third reading and voted for approval, sending the bill to the House.
This bill establishes a medical insurance exchange in support of the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) also known as 'Obamacare' in popular parlance among conservative citizens.
A group of Tea Party leaders had been invited to Lansing on Nov. 8th by Senators Marleau and Meekhof for a briefing on the bill since there had been much resistance to the bill by Tea Party and other conservative activists. At that meeting we were assured that many 'sun-set' provisions had been built in and that a lot of work had been done to make it the best bill possible.
We were told that it was important to get the bill passed and the work started in order to obtain approximately $10 million from the federal government to support the development. We reminded them that $4 million would be borrowed money, to be paid back by our grandchildren and the other $6 million is not free money, but out of our pockets, and comes back after the federal government takes its cut.
We were not told that the bill was to be moved two days later. We left after expressing our misgivings about the bill as we had currently understood it and urged them to not do anything to jeopardize AG Schuette's law suit against the ACA in federal courts and to drag their feet and vote it out only when it absolutely had to move.
We went home and started contacting Tea Party members and our local senators. On the morning of the 10th, one of the area senators responded to a query that the bill was not on the docket for that day; and then found out that it indeed was. The Tea Party cyber space was abuzz that morning and a few Tea Party leaders were in the gallery and witnessed Senator Colbeck withdraw his sponsorship of the bill as what was about to be voted on did not contain any of the items he had promised his constituents and others across the state.
It seems that the bill was being moved at the behest of the Governor through Senator Richardville. Most of our local area senators stood with Senator Patrick Colbeck and voted against the bill.
If you viewed the video that I had sent out earlier, of Speaker Bolger's interview on OTR, you will see that the bill is 'safely' in the House at this time. (Watch here).
At the Alliance meeting this past Saturday it was decided that we would unite to replace the senators who put the Republican Party and the desires of the power structure within Lansing before the desires of the citizens. Those actions are outlined in the following Press Release: 693%20Presser.pdfGovernor Snyder focuses on creating a healthier Michigan - Welcome to Obama-care!
Governor Rick Snyder has announced major initiatives to make Michigan "healthier. It would appear that much of this is mandated by our federal government as part of the National Health Care Act - Obama-care
Some of the proposals include:
Click here for the link to the full text on the Governors website.
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VIDEO: "A CITIZEN'S GUIDE TO THE FEDERAL DEBT LIMIT DEBATE"
Mackinac Center on School Funding Myths - watch it here
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TEA Party Poll on
Debt Ceiling
The 1st Michigan TEA Party Alliance has put into place a facility to allow us to poll our members on various items of interest from time to time and then publish the results. The various TEA Parties in the state are all very independent and made up of independently minded conservatives and so it was of interest to be able to sample their opinions from time to time.
It is noted that these are just ‘straw polls’ as the poll is broadcast via email lists of members to all members. People are free to answer the poll or not. Thus in all likelihood the people who have strong opinions will self select and respond. It is not a scientific sample poll.
Many of the TEA Party organizations around the state seek to work in partnership with their federal, state and local representatives. That requires methods of communication to these representatives that can convey an overall census of the TEA Party voters’ opinions on important issues. Using polls is only one aspect of that set of communication channels.
The attached poll and results are the result of a desire to communicate the overall opinion of the TEA Party members in Michigan on whether to raise the federal Debt Limit, and if so, what safe guards would be required. We were looking for an overall consensus and the result of 88% opposed to raising the limit seems to be a solid consensus. If it were raised, 46% of those who had an opinion desired a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. Note that the second question in the survey was not required and the number of votes is not the same as the survey total of 467.
Here is the pdf is the questionnaire; Here is the summary of responses. The attached excel file is the raw data that includes remarks for use by the representatives as insight into what the TEA Party members are thinking.
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NEW EDUCATIONAL PAGE!
Patriot Parent Educational Toolbox
We have a new Patriot Parent Educational Toolbox page. Find out vital information about your local school district. Things like average salaries, student performance, union bargaining contracts and much more. Don't be misinformed! Get the facts for your district and tell others. It is up to us to keep our fellow citizens informed!
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The 1st Michigan Tea Party Alliance listed groups are the following:
We The People of Gladwin County
Common Sense Patriots of Branch County Michigan
Tea Party Patriots of West Oakland County
SW Michigan Tea Party Patriots
Benzie County Patriots
Rattle With Us Tea Party
Lapeer County Tea Party Patriots
Port Huron Tea Party
Patriots of SE Michigan
We The People of Mid Michigan
Berrien County Tea Party
Western Tea Party Group of Vassar
Allegan Tea Party
South East Michigan 9/12 Project
Please click the links to find out more about these great organizations. More groups are coming on board and will be added to our site. Check back often.
Michigan Tea Party Alliance Web site Guiding Principle
We are tea parties from throughout the state of Michigan who believe we were given an awesome gift of a republic based on a set of inspired documents called the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. In these document are three basic principles we espouse. They are:
· Limited government
· Fiscal responsibility
· Free markets
These values derive from our shared heritage and a belief in a free person who exercises personal responsibility.
A) Limited Government
1) Strengthen state sovereignty
2) Make local and state governments stronger and more independent from national government
3) Stop legislation which hinders personal liability: property rights, moral legislation, free speech, etc. and most legislation which removes personal choice from citizens who have unalienable rights
4) Reform tax code (with focus on lowering tax burden for all citizens)
B) Fiscal Responsibility
1) Reduce the size of all government departments and bureaucracies at every level
2) Reduce and limit grants and foreign aid
3) Common sense approach to balancing the budget, no new debt and eventually paying off the debt
C) Free Markets
1) Limit regulation of any sector of business or industry
2) Reform subsidies and taxation
3) Eliminate government ownership in any private company or industry
Alliance MI4CS Clarification
The 1st Michigan Tea Party Alliance recognizes that there is an effort currently underway by a group known as MI4CS to encourage all tea party / 9-12 groups to get involved in the primary process and unite behind one Senatorial Candidate to endorse and support that candidate thru the primary and general election process. The 1st Michigan Tea Party Alliance does not endorse nor discourage this effort as this in not a 1st Alliance endeavor.
It should be noted that the 1st Alliance has member groups who are involved in the MI4Cs process and groups that are not involved in this process.
1st Michigan Tea Party Alliance
South East Michigan 9/12 Project
