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Stephen Gordon discusses the Tea Party movement on MSNBC
Here’s ALRLC media spokesperson Stephen Gordon on Rachel Maddow:
Birmingham/Shelby County “Tea Party – A Celebration of Freedom”
Description: The Alabama Republican Liberty Caucus is pleased to announce our support for the upcoming Birmingham/Shelby County Tea Party. “Tea Party -A Celebration of Freedom” will be held on July 4th at the Verizon Wireless Music Center.
Title: Birmingham/Shelby County “Tea Party – A Celebration of Freedom”
Location: Verizon Wireless Music Center (formerly Oak Mountain Amphitheater), Pelham, AL
Link out: Click here
We’ll be announcing additional details soon, but we’re trying to get the word out now so you can place the date on your calendar. Also, the event is in need of volunteers and vendors/sponsors.
Start Time: 5:30
Date: 2009-07-04
Press Release: National Media Spotlight Focuses on Alabama RLC Members
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Shana Kluck
shanajk@gmail.com
(205) 586-5751
National Media Spotlight Focuses on Alabama RLC Members
Members of new Alabama organization send Homeland Security Report viral, participate in Tea Party activities across state, interviewed on national television
(BIRMINGHAM, ALA. – April 20, 2009) For an organization which has been operational for less than two weeks, members of the Alabama Chapter of the Republican Liberty Caucus have received significant national and state attention over the past few days.
ALRLC Media Director Stephen Gordon received considerable media attention for exposing the Department of Homeland Security report “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Environment Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,” which went viral on the Internet.
“Considering that several of our RLC members provide Web 2.0 services for a living, we felt it was our civic responsibility to ensure that the story went immediately viral on the Internet,” said ALRLC Media Coordinator Stephen Gordon. “It’s critically important that believers in small government are made aware that they are being targeted by the current administration.”
“The Bush administration’s creation of the new DHS was not simply another instance of poor administration and leadership,” wrote ALRLC Chairman Scott Boykin on the organization’s website. “Rather, it established a new tool for political leaders seeking to demonize their opponents. Bush’s intentions in creating DHS don’t matter now, because it’s no longer his department. The more power government has, the greater is its potential threat to our freedom. The DHS report is a startling reminder that big government is dangerous.”
Members of the Alabama Liberty Caucus also assisted with the coordination of three Tax Day Tea Parties held in Alabama. ALRLC Secretary Shana Kluck and Gordon helped secure speakers, provide professional advice and assisted with other logistical concerns for the Tuscaloosa and Birmingham Tea Parties, respectively. RLC supporter Matthew Givens was a coordinator for the Montgomery event. While crowd estimates vary, approximately ten thousand people attended these three events. The Birmingham event received national television attention on Fox News.
On Thursday, Gordon spent an hour as an in-studio guest along with national political journalist Robert Stacy McCain on WYDE’s Lee Davis Show. Discussing the topic of recent Alabama Tea Parties, McCain stressed a point which Gordon had made to him during Ron Paul’s recent presidential bid: “The Ron Paul movement wasn’t about Ron Paul. It was about a movement.”
Additionally, Gordon appeared on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show on Tuesday. According to HotAir.com’s Green Room, Gordon took “hard shots at Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee and Alan Keyes” which “should suffice to dispel any notion that the Tea Party movement is a ‘neocon/Republican/Fox News’ conspiracy.”
Gordon also discussed the role of FreedomWorks/CSE during the campaign to defeat Governor Riley’s tax increase proposal in 2003.
The ALRLC’s organizational mission is to recruit and endorse candidates who support the RLC’s agenda, elect small-government Republicans to political office, and change the direction of the Republican Party to reflect our vision of peace and prosperity.
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Birmingham and Tuscaloosa Tax Day Tea Party reports
Two Ron Paul supporters at the Tuscaloosa Tea Party (photo credit: Forward Focus Media)
In both the Tuscaloosa and the Shelby County/Birmingham Tea Parties held on April 15th, Alabama RLC members played vital roles in the successes of these events. In Tuscaloosa, 500 to 600 people were reported in attendance. Crowd estimates ranged between 5,000 and 10,000 for the Birmingham event. Because of extreme event-related traffic congestion, it is very difficult to determine the actual total amount of people who showed at this event.
One contribution to Tea Party success provided by our RLC members led to certainly the funniest and perhaps one of the best speeches delivered at any Tea Party event across the country.
In Tuscaloosa, ALRLC Secretary Shana Kluck secured a speaking spot for former Washington Times assistant national editor and current freelance journalist Robert Stacy McCain. In Birmingham, ALRLC Media Director Stephen Gordon did the same. Poking fun at the Department of Homeland Security report we helped make available to the public, McCain wowed the crowd with his Jeff Foxworthy-like rendition of “You might be a right-wing extremist, if…”
Here’s the video of the speech McCain delivered in Hoover:
Shana Kluck, Robert Stacy McCain and Stephen Gordon have all provided reports from both the Tuscaloosa and Birmingham Tea Parties. Additional reports and photographs come from Ken Pritchett, Cathy Reisenwitz, Rhoda, Ed, and WYDE. Birmingham News coverage is here and dominant front page Tuscaloosa News coverage is here. For a special treat, here’s a YouTube of Rick and Bubba on Sean Hannity’s nationally televised feed from Birmingham.
Montgomery/Tri-County Tea Party
Title: Montgomery/Tri-County Tea Party
Location: Alabama State House, 11 N Union
Link out: Click here
Description: What: Tri-County Tax Day Tea Party
When: April 15th at high noon
Where: Alabama State House, 11 N Union
Why: Many people think it is pretty obvious that we can\’t tax and spend our way into prosperity, but the leadership in Washington isn\’t listening to us. As part of a nationwide series of protests on \”Tax Day\”, we will make our voices heard.
Details: We will start at High Noon on April 15th, and continue for no more than an hour. We will have several very good speakers, as well as other plans to make it both effective and fun. More details will follow in the next week or two.
Copyright 2009 Tri-County Tea Party Coalition
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This page was last updated: April 3, 2009
Things To Do Before
Sign Up to Attend or Volunteer
Invite Friends & Family
Make Signs (Samples)
Buy Tea Bags
Spread The Word!
Things To Bring
Friends
Cameras & Video Cameras
Signs
Tea Bags
Bell or noise maker
Good Manners
Montgomery Tea Party Location!
11 South Union Street
Montgomery, AL 36130
Parking at Cramton Bowl
1022 Madison Ave
Montgomery, AL 36130
Parking at Paterson Field
1201 Madison Avenue
Montgomery, AL 36101
Parking: Parking downtown is severely limited, and there is no place nearby for participants to park. However, you can park at either Cramton Bowl or Paterson field. Trolleys run every 20 minutes from both locations to the Alabama State House.
Additional speaker info here.
I’m pleased to say that plans for the Montgomery Tea Party have been finalized. Speakers at the event will include:
Kevin Elkins, News Radio 1440 talk host
Greg Budell, WACV 1170 talk host
Tim James
John Rice
John Killian, Birmingham pastor
State Senator Harri Anne Smith
State Representative Greg Canfield
State Representative Barry Mask
Ashley Johnston will read an excerpt from a Patrick Henry speech
Also attending and speaking if time permits will be State Senator Scott Beason and State Representatives Robert Bentley and Cam Ward.
But that’s not all. We plan on having a 5-minute segment where anybody attending the Tea Party can come to the microphone and speak for 30-seconds each. We will have Adam Brooks from Christ Community Church singing “America the Beautiful”, and Birmingham-based Alabama Pipes and Drums will kick us off with “Scotland the Brave.”
Start Time: 12:00
Date: 2009-04-15
Our First YouTube: Party Like It’s 1773
We’ll be posting Alabama Tea Party events on this site. If you have any additional information, corrections or updates about Alabama events, please contact Shana or leave a comment below.
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The Most Important Polical Event in Alabama in 2009
On December 16, 1773, a group of colonists boarded ships and dumped tea into the Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party was the symbolic start of our battle against British tyranny and taxation. On Saturday, August 9, 2003, the Alabama Tea Party was the symbolic beginning of our overwhelming defeat of the largest planned tax increase in Alabama’s history.
On April 15, we’ll be throwing another Tea Party – this one to begin the overthrow of the greatest expansion of federal spending in our nation’s history. In conjunction with other Tea Parties to be held across the nation on April 15, the Birmingham and Shelby County Tea Parties have merged in order for Alabamians to provide the most incredibly successful event possible.
It’s important that as many people as possible attend so we can ensure that our elected representatives in Washington hear our demand for limited government and a return to our constitutional roots. We’ll be holding a family-friendly rally starting at 6:30PM on Wednesday, April 15th. It will take place at Veteran’s (Spain) Park on Valleydale Road in Hoover. Additionally, Sean Hannity will be running a live stream from Tea Parties across the country and the Birmingham Tea Party will be one of them.
We’ll have speakers, information tables, family and whole lot of fun. Also, don’t forget to your home-made, family -friendly signs, banners and posters. As we’ll be going from 6:30PM until well after dark, make sure you bring lawn chairs or blankets, something to eat or drink, and are prepared for wet weather should rain be in the forecast. Don’t forget diapers and bottles for the little ones.
Here are a few of the speakers from our tentative speaker line up:
Birmingham/Shelby County Tea Party Tax Rally April 15th
Title: Birmingham/Shelby County Tea Party Tax Rally April 15th
Location: Veterans Park (?) in Hoover
Link out: Click here
Description: Hey Rainy Day Patriots and patriots of all kinds- The date, time, and place of the next rally to protest the outragous actions of our govenrment has been established. The rally will be at Veterans Park on Valleydale Road in Hoover, Shelby County, Alabama. On April 15th, we wish to see the Veterans Park on Valleydale Road flooded with patriots and signs to show our government just how awful their actions have been.
Time: 6:30pm until the park closes.
Bring: Your signs, your passion, and your pride in the Constitution!
Please RSVP to bhamteaparty@gmail.com
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2009-04-15
