http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/201...ket-sales.html
ABC News' Michael Falcone reports:
So much for the party. Organizers of the planned Tea Party Nation Convention, which had already been postponed once, announced this week that the gathering was being scrapped entirely.
The reason? Slow ticket sales, according to Judson Phillips, one of the ring leaders of the event, which was to be held in Las Vegas next month. The cost of the convention, which ran as high as $399, was just too much for many of the movement’s devotees.
“This decision simply came down to a matter of economics,” Phillips, the founder of Tea Party Nation who is affiliated with the group FreeAmerica.org, told The Daily Caller. Phillips said the event fell victim to the “Obama economy.”
The convention, which had been modeled after an event earlier this year in Nashville, was scheduled for Oct. 14 at the Palazzo Hotel. The Tea Party stars who were slated to make appearances included Andrew Brietbart, Lou Dobbs and Nevada Senate hopeful Sharron Angle.
But the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported earlier this week that many local grassroots conservative leaders did not mind that the Tea Party Nation Convention was nixed, especially after the controversy that plagued the Nashville event, which cost as much as $500 to attend.
"They were kind of opportunistic," Frank Ricotta, the former state director of a Nevada Tea Party group and a county-level GOP leader said in an interview with the Review-Journal’s Laura Myers.
The convention’s cancellation also raises larger questions about what’s next for the Tea Party. As Phillips wrote in a recent e-mail message to supporters, many of the original Tea Party followers are concerned about what he called the “rise of Big Tea” -- the growth of national organizations like Tea Party Nation, Tea Party Express and Tea Party Patriots.
Phillips wrote: “For many of the grass roots activists who started this movement eighteen months ago, myself included, may look and ask the question, "Dude, where's my movement?" There is no question the movement has changed. The evolution of Big Tea is the logical result of where this movement must go.”
Idiots.
"Obama economy"
These venal ers NEVER quit lying.
What is the Tea Party's specific program, once they grab power, for fixing the Obama economy?
Just stay pissed off, wrap themselves in the Cons ution, and mumble vacuous crap like "We're Restoring America"?
What specific parts of Big Bad Government do they want to cut?
Cut all federal programs that benefit their red-state state or district?
(note: red-states sucking in more fed $$ than blue states)
When does it become Obama's?
What are the tea partiers going to do to fix the economy?
The one thing teabaggers hate more than being called a racist is black people.
When does the Banksters Great Depression, which started in 2007, stop being Repugs'/conservatives' economy?
When do Repugs' bogus/botched wars stop belonging to Repugs?
Like Repugs' Pledge, tea baggers have NO SPECIFICS to offer.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 09-26-2010 at 12:10 PM.
“For many of the grass roots activists who started this movement eighteen months ago, myself included, may look and ask the question, "Dude, where's my movement?" There is no question the movement has changed. The evolution of Big Tea is the logical result of where this movement must go.”
O rly? You guys started 19 months ago when Obama came into office? Cuz the real Tea Parties started before Obama was in office...and they wanted to end the the Dept of Agriculture and Dept of Education and the Fed's tyrannical agenda. Somewhere along the way, a Republican got a smart idea to turn it into a surrogate for the GOP and then it started to franchise like Al Qaeda.
those pussies and their super-expensive convention! Seriously, in this economy no one will pay $300+ to slob on fellow Tea Partier's knobs. They can watch it for free on Fox News.
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