Announcement: North Jersey Tea Party Event - September 3

From our friends at the North Jersey Tea Party Group:

Fellow Tea Partiers,

*** BIG NEWS!!! The North New Jersey Tea Party Group will host a TEA PARTY PROTEST at Montclair State University (in Montclair, New Jersey) on Thursday, September 3 starting at 3:00 PM!!! ***

This date and time were chosen because on September 3 from 4-6 PM, U.S. House of Representatives member Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-NJ) will be hosting a Town Hall Meeting at Montclair State.

Please read all of the following important details:

* The Pascrell Town Hall Meeting -- which we urge you to attend immediately after our tea party protest -- will be held on Thursday, September 3 from 4-6 PM. The location is the Conference Center at Montclair State, 1 Normal Avenue, Montclair NJ 07043.

* For driving and parking directions, most definitely refer to:

http://www.montclair.edu/conferencecenter/campus_parking_directions.pdf

(Note: scroll down on that link to obtain a visual of exactly where the Conference Center is located on campus.)

* Parking at Montclair State is LIMITED, so we suggest you plan accordingly (taking public transportation is highly encouraged). If you can't park on campus, find a legal place to park off-campus, and walk from your parking spot to campus. ARRIVE EARLY to the extent you can, and you probably won't regret it. If you arrive before 3 PM, GREAT! Feel free to kick off the protest prior to 3 PM!

* We are starting our protest at 3:00 PM, ONE HOUR BEFORE the Pascrell Town Hall Meeting begins. This is in part to encourage you to come early, because many folks showing up at various town hall meetings on time are finding no seats available due to capacity already being reached.

* ***BRING A PROTEST SIGN!!!*** Homemade signs are GREAT, store-made signs -- for example at FedEx Office, formerly known as Kinko's -- are GREAT. (I will be bringing my 2' x 2' sign.)

* You can search the internet for suggested sign slogans. For example, Google the term "tea party slogans healthcare" and that will bring up several websites that have dozens -- hundreds -- of suggestions each.

* Our protest will take place just outside the main entrance to the Conference Center. Just look for our signs and join us!!!

* Bring a camera, and especially if you are able, bring a digital recording device. This will help us document the event, and also, these devices serve as great deterrents to any thugs who might wish to infringe upon OUR UNALIENABLE MORAL RIGHT TO SPEAK FREELY.

* I HIGHLY RECOMMEND that you check out the following "20 Questions for Your Congressman" by our Facebook group member Robert W. Tracinski (thank you Robert!).


* We are a PEACEFUL organization. We do not expect this Tea Party Protest to be anything but peaceful. Please conduct yourself accordingly at all times (unless self-defense becomes necessary). Should anybody threaten you physically during our protest -- not that we expect this to happen, although we always want you to be prepared just in case -- please do your best to defuse the situation peacefully (which often means simply walking away, and sometimes means simply calling the police).

* Pascrell's campaign website shows his belief that "health care is a right." Pascrell is wrong; health care is NOT a right. If it were a right, then any individual could FORCE a health-industry worker (doctor, nurse, etc.) to provide the care, and FORCE somebody else (for example, peaceful and economically productive citizens -- a.k.a. taxpayers) to pay for it. Doctors, nurses, and taxpayers ARE NOT SLAVES. There is no such thing as the "right to health care" because there is no such thing as the "right to enslave" those who provide it and those who pay for it.

http://www.pascrellforcongress.com/healthcare
* Although free speech includes angry speech, please DO NOT disrupt the Town Hall Meeting in any way that prevents peaceful discourse (for example, joining in a multi-person chant which drowns out whomever is speaking).

* Please be aware that the Town Hall plans could change at any time -- particularly if Pascrell decides he lacks the courage to face pro-liberty Americans like you and me. If you become aware of any changes, please let us know, so that we can change our Tea Party Protest plans accordingly.

*** FORWARD THIS INVITATION ON TO ALL OF YOUR PRO-LIBERTY FRIENDS AND FAMILY!!! ***

I look forward to seeing you -- and your pro-liberty friends and family! -- at Montclair State on Thursday, September 3!

Mark Kalinowski
Founder
North New Jersey Tea Party Group
Liberty, Free Markets, and Individual Rights!

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Morristown Tea Party Update 2!

A message from the organizers of the Morristown Tea Party:

A group of concerned citizens has been working together with one accord to create an opportunity for their friends, neighbors, and fellow NJ residents to meet and announce to the world with one voice that we have all had enough of fiscally irresponsibile government.

To that end, we announce and invite you to attend the Morristown Tea Party to be held at the Morristown Green, at noon on April 15, tax day.**

Attached to this email is a video clip prepared one of the team members to advertize the rally. Please send it out to your email contacts. There is more information on our website: www.MorristownTeaParty.org.

**If the weather is bad, we will still hold the rally. Please make sure that you dress appropriately.

Check out their video:

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NJ Tea Party Locations!

UPDATE: All Tea Party information will be updated on the sidebar -->
instead of being updated below. After April 15, 2009, that information will be moved to this post. If I keep on top of things, anyway.

I guess when you coin your blog NJ Tax Revolution, folks who are looking for the beginnings of the real thing look here first to find out what is going on. While we didn't come up with the Tea Party idea, we certainly support it. Several readers have inquired as to where they can attend one of these events. We will try to keep up with these events moving forward for those who would like to show up and demonstrate their feelings about the irresponsible handling of our taxpayer money.

There are currently three events of which I am aware for NJ coming up. All three events are on April 15.

Newark
At Senator Lautenberg and Menendez' office building
Gateway Center One, 782 McCarter Highway
12:00 PM

Trenton
New Jersey State House
125 W. State St.
11:30 - 4:00

Morristown
Location TBD
9:00AM to 12:00PM

We will update this list as further information develops.

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Conservatives and the 2008 elections

Here I sit in a town that is not my own reading a slew of drivel about what conservatives should take out of this past election. Since I live in New Jersey, I have heard all of these arguments before because alleged conservatives are an extinct species in NJ. But that isn't really the problem. New Jersey is exactly the model that national conservatives should shun when mapping a strategy forward. Why?

1. In New Jersey, unless a Republican (the closest thing we have to a conservative) agrees with abortion, there is a high degree of probability that the political machines will squash them out of the gate. And God forbid, they get the nomination. Google Brent Schundler to get the details on that. He lost through friendly fire before he ever competed. Abortion is an issue. Maybe to me it is important and to others less important. This needs to stop being a wedge issue among conservatives. And it needs to stop being a disqualifying issue among moderates when competing against conservatives in the party.

2. Many have argued that conservatives need to move to the middle because their beliefs don't match the electorate. This one is interesting. Barack Obama won with a solid margin. But defense of marriage won big in every election where it was on the ballot. This is not exactly a mandate against conservatism. It is as I have blogged before a great sign of voters breaking out of formerly lock-step mentality.

3. Conservative ideas don't work and need to be more liberal. How would you know in NJ or in the country? There has not been a conservative influence in our state in 40 years. And when Republicans got control of the federal government, they let down their core constituency by quickly learning to spend just like their Democrat friends. What does that prove? That Trenton and Washington corrupts and conservatives let us down.

4. Once voters believe it doesn't matter, you lose. For example, George W Bush reduced taxes by significant margins at every level. In return, states like New Jersey immediately sucked up the reduction with increases with no explanation. As a matter of fact, our corrupt governor (who became our corrupt gay governor to avoid prosecution) somehow managed to increase taxes, spending, borrowing and corruption without any media attention paid. And now NJ residents believe that "it doesn't matter who is in charge, taxes will go up".

The net for conservatives and Republicans is that we need to take a position that we stand for something. Anything. If Republicans like the former Chris Shays of CT win and we become warmed over Democrats, fine. At least the party will stand for SOMETHING. Right now, the brand is tarnished by the war, tarnished by a congress that would not hold true to its principals and catered to a pack of politicians that espoused conservative and Republican principles only when convenient but never in practice.

Time to stand up for something, anything, please....

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State Government Vehicles Gone Wild! Report Offenders Here!

I have blogged in the past about the habit of this state to distribute vehicles to state workers like candy at Halloween. Except, at least I get to decide whether or not I want to pay for and distribute the candy myself. In this case, the state takes money from us and gives out autos for no apparent reason to people in roles that clearly do not require them.

For the record, if you work in a public safety role and are on call 24 hours a day, you deserve and should have a state vehicle. If you are driving to work to say, the state NJDEP, you shouldn't have a state paid for vehicle.

Tonight, on the way home I was passed by a state vehicle on route 206 at at least 70 miles per hour. The vehicle was weaving in and out of traffic and clearly had no state purpose. That vehicle's license plate number was SG28164. Watch out for this person.

Have you seen a state vehicle that you question why the driver is even provided this perk? Send in the license plate and we will make it public. We are paying for it so why not advertise it.

Wonder if a car is a state or state paid for vehicle? Follow this link to get beyond the "SG" obvious offender.

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This Woman is the Class of NJ - Obama's Web site

From Littlegreetfootballs. I am so proud to be in New Jersey when I know that there are people like this out there. And we wonder why the state is such a disaster. Even though this has disappeared from Obama's web site, I wonder if he will denounce this kind of "activism"?

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USA Wins Ryder Cup!

For the first time in a long time, the US team won the Ryder Cup golf matches between the US and Europe. And for the first time in a long time, our team seemed to be a bunch of guys who happened to play golf, had a ton of pride and wanted it more badly than the other guys.

No complaints over the purse money. No complaints over airplanes and travelling with the team. Just a bunch of guys who desperately wanted to win.

The last time I attended the Ryder Cup it was at The Belfry in England. On the final day at that event, Colin Mongomery went out in the first match and made a statement. Fast forward to this year. Anthony Kim did the same against one of the best players in the world(and arguably one of the best Ryder Cup players ever), Sergio Garcia. This young played not only beat Sergio but soundly finished his match much the same way that Monty did to lead his team at the Belfry. That first point means a lot when the other guys want to stage a comeback.

There are so many stories to this years event. Paul Azinger who was an awesome captain with the right approach. The Kentucky players JB Holmes and Perry who played out of their heads in front of the home crown. The adopted Kentucky player Boo Weekely who is frankly over the top awesome. And I cannot say enough about the play of Jim Furyk. This man stepped up and lead the team to an early win.

Congratulations USA! You have made us all proud!

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