Tia Gazi's Blog (10)

Hi there all!



Sorry I haven't been around as much, sparking off and all. I have been working on the pamplets, and the graphics and layouts are coming along a real treat, but I would love to have some ideas of subjects you would like to see covered. Also Ideas of websites, with accurate, well cited tax data would be an awesome help.



I want everyone to shout out ideas no matter how obvious because I really want pamplets that speak from the heart of all of us.

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Meeting was called to order by Gene Clem at 6:10pm



The Pledge of Allegience was recited by all members.



The Platform Commitee presented their draft of the Preamble, Mission Statement, and Core Principals. And discussion of this document was central to most of the rest of the meeting.



*Preamble appeared to be approved of by all present.



*Mission Statement also recieved near unanamous approval.



*Core Principals was presented Item By Item by… Continue

Better sit down and watch this with your favorite teddybear in arms, and a loved one beside you to hold your hand.…





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Okay I am being inspired by my kids favorite morning kid's show, Imagination Movers. They have an "Idea Box" to put random ideas in so they can pull them out later when they might need them.



So here is an Idea Box thread. If you have an idea and you don't want to start a new thread for it, or if you think it will be a great idea for later, but isn't a good idea now.... Put it in here. Then we can bat ideas around and polish them in the Box and pop them out when we need… Continue

Okay I am holding in my hot little hand the reciept for our new domain name.


www.swmipats.org

We own that name for twelve months and can renew it for longer at anytime. Bruce tells me it is going to be on our Tee Shirts and stuff!

Happy days and a lot of stuff getting done!

I was checking out my Favorite News Blogs this morning when it came to me that maybe not everybody has stumbled across these great sites. So I thought maybe we should share our favorite news and commentary sites with each other. So here are mine, feel free to post your own. :) :D





http://www.lucianne.com/



http://www.drudgereport.com/



http://boortz.com/



http://www.tnr.com/



http://www.newoxfordreview.org/



I got more, but these… Continue

Hi all you happy people. Ready to get out there and start passing out pamplets and talking to people? Here is the upcoming events in South West Michigan that we need to either get to ourselves, or get volunteers to go to. Now I will have to work with the platform committee to put together fliers, and Idealy we will be wearing TEA Party shirts when we get out there, So I started with events two weeks out from here that will give us time to get ourselves together. We need to maybe have a meeting… Continue

Okay, at the meeting yesturday we seemed to reach a consensus that we are outgrowing our Ning. So we are going to work on getting a full site of our own. I am looking into servers and providers and will try to find an affordable site that both suits our needs and allows us to continue to grow and grow,. That said I would like to hear from you all what you would like to see in a new site. Here is my current list of Must Haves.



1. Content Pages that allows us to carry text and… Continue

We are going to have to start thinking about a Platform and Mission Statement for the Tea Party. I think that this will happen on the National Level very soon. Right now what we can do as a start is agree on a few things that we all would like to say to any person that wonders what the Tea Party is all about here in Kalamazoo. Mostly I think we are all fairly well in agreement that we want to see Federal power returned to its appropriate level and the authority that has been usurped from the… Continue

I have heard alot lately about how the media has branded Tea Party goers rabid Right Wing Extremists. This has got alot of people worried about their future if they get involved in this grassroots movement. But I think its time we all sit back and re-think our knee jerk reaction to the word extremist and how we see extremism in action.



Whether we like it or not, most of us have been fairly well programed by the media to respond in certain ways to certain words. We are mostly tapped… Continue