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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, [citation needed] and Monroe, Washington. [82]
Rand Paul at a Tea Party rally in Hawesville, Kentucky, November 2009. Sarah Palin headlined four "Liberty at the Ballot Box" bus tours, to raise money for candidates and the Tea Party Express. One of the tours visited 30 towns and covered 3,000 miles. [229]
The Taxpayer March on Washington (also known as the 9/12 Tea Party) was a Tea Party protest march from Freedom Plaza to the United States Capitol held on September 12, 2009, in Washington, D.C. [1] [2] The event coincided with similar protests organized in various cities across the nation. [3]
It turns out many who rode the wave of principled libertarianism were neither.
There was a rally for 2 hours before the march at the Washington Memorial and a 6-hour after party at the rock n roll hotel. [citation needed] March 24 – Reason Rally – The Reason Rally was a rally for secularism and religious skepticism held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on March 24, 2012. Approximately 20,000 people in attendance.
The Tea Party Movement, founded in 2009, is an American political movement that advocates strict adherence to the United States Constitution, [1] reduced U.S. government spending and taxes, [2] [3] and reduction of the U.S. national debt and federal budget deficit.
Can two comics take on the Tea Party? Last Thursday night, Comedy Central's Jon Stewart announced what he called "The Rally to Restore Sanity," an event to take place on the National Mall on Oct. 30.
[15] [98] AFP was one of the leading organizers of the September 2009 Taxpayer March on Washington, also known as the "9/12 Tea Party," according to The Guardian. [7] On April 16, 2011, former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was the keynote speaker at an AFP annual tax day tea party rally at the state capitol in Madison ...