Thank you for the welcome. I am a political junkie (Conservative - BIG TIME). Right now I am up to my eyeballs in teaching. There's not much I can do right now until I retire in June. However, I'm really looking forward to this new challenge.

What are these "gifts" ?

 

Here is a quick idea for your people in DC. In the budget fight why not  include all the left over monies from the TARP PROGRAM and the STIMULUS PROGRAM. Lets dry up that well now so they can't spent it.  Thanks.  

Billie, thank you for all you do to  keep the truth before America!! God bless!

knew  right off,  that the politicans would use this as a tool , to divert  attention  away from what they were doing  to the american public.

"Who the Hell do you think you are?"....Excellent, Excellent, Excellent!!!! thank you for posting this one!

Thank you for being our voice!!!! 
I think one thing to consider in cutting back on foodstamps is that kids eat free for breakfast and lunch at school. That needs to be factored in when calculating benefits. Why would the tax payees pay for these kids to eat twice for the same meal? I think that alone would help to cut it way back. I also think that junk food shouldn't be allowed. We work to feed our kids and can't afford junk food from quick stop, why should we be required to buy it for people who are unwilling to work? Stay strong! You are speaking the words that we would speak if given the chance! Thanks for what you do!

Wow! Billie and all the others you brought to the cause worked wonders. As a transplant from Richmond, VA where I thought we had a super active Tea Party group, you left them in the dust. I'll make time to help you keep the pressure on those we have helped put in a position of government responsibility.

Billie- I wrote an earlier comment but I am so new at this it didn't go - thank you and Carol for hosting an inspirational mtg. Tuesday night at the S. Beach Community Center. Hank Madden gave us some useful info, the other Tea Partiers hellped us to select the right choices for Nov. 2 ballot and last but equally important and very patriotic and was the powerful powerpoint presentation by Bob Tipton. Thank you all and God Bless America

We are in St Austine and First Coast is a so much bigger group perhaps you should reach out and see if they would be interested in bonding. I think it would be a good move on their part and provide a lot more energy overall.
Just a thought

So proud of all of you. thank you for speaking - so eloquently - for and representling all of us!

< Billie, I remember your writing the ICW West group hasn't found a meeting place, yet. I was riding by Angies on the corner of Beach Blvd and S15th St (across from the beaches cemetary) and their sign board was showing a message that the Beaches Tea Party meet there this Wednesday night.

Perhaps you might talk with the owner of Angie's to secure a meeting place. Just a suggestion................. joe troupe

Billie, I tried to send you a very nice article by Dick Morris on the Tea Party, but the system is not designed for copying and pasting articles or for forwarding them to you for your review. You probably subscribe to Dick Morris, any, so it probably isn't any loss................. joe

In response to your query: I live in East Islip, a small town on the south shore of Long Island. I'm usually pretty busy, but would still be interested in joining any tea party group within 'striking' distance, just not sure how to find them. Am seriously contemplating joining the gathering in DC on 9/ll--logistics and expense being the serious part of 'seriously contemplating'.

My concern, Billie, is the wording of the FTU article which places the tea party squarely in an article about a candidate for office who was involved in corrupt and fraudulent activities. Scott may be remorseful about the HCA situation but that was only after he was caught and ousted. HCA paid the fine and he went on to make millions elsewhere. After all, he was able to afford an $11 million ad campaign. It all reeks of the same "icky" stuff that is all over Capitol hill these days. I don't care how much he may have cleaned up his image or how much business acumen he may have, fraud is fraud. I would expect the tea party and one of it's organizers to be far removed from any candidate who has already been involved in fraud. No discussion after the fact would change my vote. He will just sound like all the rest of the sleazy politicians I am sick of.
Terry

Billie:

Amazing...simply amazing. You are only saddling up next to Rick Scott because of what Rick Scott can do for you. Rick Scott is a thief, liar, fraudster, scum sucker of the earth. How dare you say he is "one of us"? And from the looks of your posts, you most certainly are using the Tea Party group to continue to endorse him. Please stop using the words "we" "our" 'us" when YOU are personally endorsing Rick Scott. Sounds like he is rubbing off on you already. Let me quote directly from TU article that appeared in today's Metro section these are your words "Rick is fresh and new. He brings to the table a business acumen that McCollum doesn't," said Billie Tucker, an organizer with the First Coast Tea Party.

"Part of the tea party movement is personal responsibility," Tucker said. "If he comes out and says, 'Hey, we screwed up. We fixed it,' does that mean we never let him do anything again?"

And how dare you use Rick Scott's own web page to "Check out the truth"

Here is a true link to check out Rick...
information is available on the Wikipedia website. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_L._Scott

Also the mission statement of the FCTP specifically prohibits the endorsement of candidate, and I quote "We are NOT affiliated with any political parties or interest groups and do not - as a group - support any political candidate."

So what did he offer you?

Rebecca Sharp
Jacksonville Beach, FL