Independence Day Tea Party in beginning stages

Hi, Fellow Tea Party Patriots! The Glynn County Tax Day Tea Party was a huge success. At the final count, we had 636 people come out to take a stand for liberty with us. That is amazing! With this event being held at lunchtime on a weekday, these numbers were far more than my wildest imagination. And, that's not all ~ they are estimating that 1 - 1.2 million Americans attended tea parties in 850 cities across this great land. That number is just staggering. And, of course, the main stream media is trying to direct how our Tea Parties are interpreted, but you and I know that what they are saying is simply not true. But, we also know why they are saying it - they are afraid that the status quo is about to have a huge change, and they don't know how to cope with that!

I also wanted to let you all know that I am mailing our petitions to Congressman Kingston, Sen Isakson, and Sen. Chambliss tomorrow via Priority Mail. Hopefully they will receive them before the budget vote that will potentially happen this week. We have over 500 signatures on these petitions, and I would guess that they are about 20 feet long! Now, that should make a statement!

This blog will be a central website/blog to get information out, and to share pictures, stories, etc... You can also use this URL to get here: http://www.ssiteaparty.info/. Also, please check out http://www.teapartypatriots.org/ as this is the central site and registration at this site will help keep everything linked with the national movement.

As you all probably know, the Tax Day Tea Party was just the beginning, and I am already gearing up to start planning for the Fourth of July Independence Day Tea Party! I have tentatively reserved Gascoigne Park. I say tentatively because I need $700 to put with the reservation to make it binding. For that amount, we have the park the entire day. For those of you who don't know, Gascoigne is the Park that is beside Epworth (off of Sea Island Causeway.) There are many reasons why I think this is an excellent location including - lots of parking (we now know this is important!), shade trees along with sunny spots, visible from the causeway in an area that is moving slower already (lots of traffic going by there on the Fourth, too!), there are public restrooms, and also an eating pavilion with picnic tables - all this combined with a breeze to keep the bugs off, and I'm sure you can see why I'm excited about this location! My vision for the Independence Day Tea Party is a good old fashioned Fourth of July party (you know, what the Sunshine Festival used to be...)

Obviously to pull this off, we will need plenty of volunteers, so if anyone is able to and would like to volunteer, please reply back to me so that I can put you on the volunteer list. Also, we will need some money. I have set up a bank account specifically for the Tea Parties at Security Bank that is set up to receive donations if anyone is able and would like to contribute. (If everyone who came last Wed donated $1, we would have $636! And, if everyone donated $5 - we would have over $3000!) Again, only if you feel that you can donate - everyone is welcome to volunteer and attend regardless of donations, so please do not feel obligated. (I won't have any record of who donates at the bank anyway...) For anyone who is interested, you can go to Security and they can look up the account under Dawn Forbes - but you need to tell them that it is the Tea Party Account so that it is posted correctly. Also, please feel free to tell others about it who ask if they can donate toward the cause. I've also set up a paypal account linked to this bank account that uses this e-mail ssiteaparty@gmail.com. Again, please feel free to forward all the website information and the donation information.

I've created a Facebook Event Page for this tea party so that the information can easily be forwarded among your Facebook friends list. The event page is here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/event.php?eid=81313785162&ref=nf.

Thank you for all your help in making this event a huge success!