History of the Tax Day Tea Parties

I'm still coming up to speed on Tax Day Tea Parties. I'll be leaving in a couple hours for the local event. I came across Michelle Malkin's history of how the Tax Day Tea Parties got started. She reports:

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Feb. 15: Keli Carender, who blogs as “Liberty Belle” spread the word about a grass-roots protest she was organizing in Seattle to raise her voice against the passage of the trillion-dollar stimulus/porkulus/Generational Theft Act of 2009. It’s the first time she had ever jumped into political organizing of any kind. She is not affiliated with any “corporate lobbyist” or think tank or national taxpayers’ organization. She’s a young conservative mom who blogs. Amazingly, she turned around the event in a few days all on her own by reaching out on the Internet, to her local talk station, and to anyone who would listen.
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Michelle then covers events over the next week.

I think one of the results of this movement is more people are going to be involved in politics. There are lots of instances of average Joes who rarely did much about politics before who are organizing events with hundreds, even thousands of people. If they stay active and organized, they will be a force to be reckoned with.


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