So…how many of these guys will Sen. Patrick kick out after the next session? Probably none because he will have moved on to something else by then but it could be interesting if they try to purge the heretics.
Don’t remember that? Read this: 676 Years of ICRoT.
What do we get from D_nny today?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 28, 2010
CONTACT: Logan Spence (512) 461-3448
DAN PATRICK ANNOUNCES FORMATION OF TEA PARTY CAUCUS
New caucus will be very engaged during 82nd Session
HOUSTON, TEXAS- Senator Dan Patrick is joining with conservative legislators to create a Tea Party Caucus. “The Tea Party has played an important role this year and I want to be sure their voices are heard in Austin long after next Tuesday,” added Patrick. “The power of the Tea Party beyond election day is to hold those elected accountable for a conservative voting agenda,” said Patrick.
The Tea Party caucus will be active throughout the session, meeting with conservative leaders from the Tea Party movement, discussing issues, and building support for important conservative legislation. Continued membership in the caucus will be based on performance in three areas: supporting key Tea Party issues; signing the Texas Conservative Coalition Pledge with Texas; and keeping a conservative voting record that is in line with the TCC annual report card.
“Through the Legislative Tea Party Caucus, grassroots activists will maintain a connection with our elected representatives throughout their life cycle – before they are elected and as long as they are in office,” said Julie Turner of the Texas Tea Party Patriots. “We will support them when their votes reflect our core values and challenge them when they stray.”
Senator Patrick will invite legislators to join the new caucus over the next two months and ask Tea Party leaders from across the state to form a legislative committee that will meet with the caucus throughout the session. The formal announcement of the caucus will come at the beginning of the session with a planned rally at the Capitol of caucus members and Tea Party members.
The caucus will be guided by a board of 11 members of both the Texas House of Representatives and Senate. Representatives Wayne Christian, Brandon Creighton and Ken Paxton, as well as Senator Brian Birdwell, have already agreed to serve on this board. After this session, future board members will be voted upon by the full membership of the caucus.
“I stand with Senator Patrick and all my conservative colleagues to affirm that our state and our nation were designed to be ruled, not by the politicians, but by the people,” stated Representative Wayne Christian. “Former U.S. Senator Daniel Webster (1782-1852) said, ‘Make them (the people) intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy,” said Christian. “Through the alliance of our new Tea Party caucus and the Texas Conservative Coalition we pledge to again make Texas, ‘of the people, by the people and for the people.”
This might be a record-time dropping of a “cause” for D_nny – the website hasn’t been updated since April 21st and still lists that bastion of ethics Rep. Joe Driver as a member – you know, the guy that double-dipped from campaign and state funds? (h/t to Cory Crow at Harris County Almanac for the reminder) Good lord, I guess he’ll be a member of this new group as well, if he survives the election. Which he probably will because Teaps are going to vote for him because D_nny says so.
I’d be laughing if it weren’t so sad. Remember when, at the start and even during the middle of the Tea Party movement, that D_nny said the Tea Parties wouldn’t survive if they didn’t tie themselves up in knots with Republicans? He even gets Julie Turner to give him a quote. Sad. Very, very sad. What could have been.
Don’t worry folks, D_nny will drop this one too. Maybe not as fast because Rep. Wayne Christian wants to push the social issues. You know….those things that the Tea Party was formed for? I feel like screaming.
Remember, Julie? Remember what TEA stands for? Now you’ve gotten yourself locked up with a bunch of guys that care way more about what you do in your bedroom than what they take out of your pocketbook.
Teapers, can you hear me? Are you listening? Don’t go down this road.
Please.
UPDATE: I love Google Alerts. And screenshots. Heh.