Urgent request from the Kingwood Tea Party Society
to City of Houston residents
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FLASH MOB NEEDED: in AUSTIN this Monday, 6/14/10 at 9 AM
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To attend hearing with the 261st Judicial Court’s sitting Judge….

WHEN: Monday, 6/14/2010 at 9 AM
WHERE: 261st Judicial Court in Travis County (Austin TX)

• 1000 Guadalupe, 3rd Floor
• Austin, Texas 78701
• Phone: (512) 854-9309 (for directions, to check schedule/venue)
• Fax: (512) 854-9332 Docket Number: Docket Number D1GN 10001296

If you can drive to Austin, please contact Bobby 713-451-1492.  We will also try to carpool if possible.

If you can’t attend, please write a letter and send overnight so it arrives before the hearing.
Mailing Address:

• 261st Judicial Court in Travis County
• REF: Docket Number D1GN 10001296
• P.O. Box 1748
• Austin, TX 78767 The City of Houston has scheduled a hearing concerning the 30% water rate increase in Houston, Texas IN AUSTIN on Monday!

A Houston city council member has said that this was partly done to muffle the taxpayers and to stifle the the outcry from Houston.

Please call and respectfully tell Ms. Appell to inform Mayor Parker that

• This is being done in an underhanded way to thwart the voters of the City of Houston who passed a proposition to prevent just this from happening.
• At this time in these economic times, it is a burden on all, but most especially on the poor of the city. WATER IS NECESSARY FOR LIFE.

Mayor Parker’s Chief of Staff: Ms. Appel (a PELL): 832-393-1078

Although HOUSTON TAXPAYERS are NOT REPRESENTED, MAYOR PARKER has hired the following contract attorneys to represent the city.

• J Wiley George (Houston): 713-220-3928
• Kelly Sandill (Houston): 713-220-4181
• Dave Whittlesey (Houston): 512-320-9200

SILENCE IS CONSENT! ACT NOW!

April 30,2010 – Houston
The Houston Tea Party Society hosted an event at the Crowne Plaza Hotel to allow candidates for the 2010 Congressional Races in the Houston and Southeast Texas to participate and sign the Contract From America.    The event was open to all congressional Candidates in the South East Texas area including incumbents and challengers.

The Contract from America is self described as a grassroots-generated, crowd-sourced, bottom-up call for real economic conservative and good governance reform in Congress.   The initative was developed within the decentralized tea party and 912 movements. Ryan Hecker, a Houston Tea Party Society activist, developed the concept of creating a grassroots-generated call for reform prior to the April 15, 2009 Tax Day Tea Party rallies.

John Culberson (R ) of Texas District 7 was the only incumbent present for the signing.    The candidates in attendance included Libertarians Bruce West of the 8^th district, David Smith of the 2^nd District and Steve Susman of the 22^nd District.   Republican signers for the contract were John Faulk – District 18.

Congressional candidate David Smith, CD 2-TX

John Culberson was the first to sign the contract.   Before signing the contract, he took exception to the 9^th item which was to reduce pork.   The contract states that congress will not pass any earmarks until the budget is balanced and only then with a 2/3 majority vote.    Culberson declined to include that item and used a “Line item veto” with that rule.

All other candidates signed the contract without any exceptions or exemptions.   David Smith who is opposing Ted Poe of the 2^ndCongressional District, used his time to mention “Fiscal Responsibility is vital to our economy and our government.”   He also noted that he had been busy campaigning in a non-stop door to door campaign.

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Very little media coverage of this event.  I wonder why….

PICS OF CROWD AT SEARCHLIGHT, NEVADA TEA PARTY
Tea Party Rally to Oust “Dingy Harry” Reid Searchlight, Nevada — March 27, 2010
Photos © 2010 – American Border Patrol

You always need a guy in period costume, carrying a Gadsden flag!!

Here are "a few dozen people" (if MSM had covered this event, that’s what they would've said!!) protesting Harry Reid’s “AYE” Obama Care vote.

Another pic of "a few dozen people" (if MSM had covered this event, that’s what they would've said!!) protesting Harry Reid’s “AYE” Obama Care vote.

Traffic backup going to the rally. Notice the many cars pulled over and parked on the shoulder of the road. Distance to rally site was over a mile away!!

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[Source: Sacramento Bee article]

It was every businessperson’s nightmare.

Arriving at Harv’s Metro Car Wash in midtown Wednesday afternoon were two dark-suited IRS agents demanding payment of delinquent taxes. “They were deadly serious, very aggressive, very condescending,” says Harv’s owner, Aaron Zeff.

The really odd part of this: The letter that was hand-delivered to Zeff’s on-site manager showed the amount of money owed to the feds was … 4 cents.

Inexplicably, penalties and taxes accruing on the debt – stemming from the 2006 tax year – were listed as $202.31, leaving Harv’s with an obligation of $202.35.

Zeff, who also owns local parking lots and is the president of the Midtown Business Association, finds the situation a bit comical.
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Good news, folks!! Ms. Debra Medina (recent Republican Gubernatorial candidate), the good doctor Ron Paul himself, Mr. David Smith (CD 2, TX), Mr. Guy McLendon (Harris County Libertarian Party Chair), Mr. Pat Dixon (Libertarian Party of Texas Chair) and several other politicos were mentioned in a recent Houston Chronicle story.

[From Wallbuilders.com]

In recent years, the federal government has grown at a rapid rate, intruding into many areas that formerly were the sole domain of the states (e.g., education, transportation, health care, energy policy, etc.). Significantly, the Founding Fathers took great care to place limitations around federal powers and to preserve state and local powers. As Thomas Jefferson clearly explained:

The capital and leading object of the Constitution was to leave with the states all authorities which respected their own citizens only, and to transfer to the United States those which respected citizens of foreign or other states….Can any good be effected by taking from the states the moral rule of their citizens and subordinating it to the general [federal] authority?…Such an intention was impossible and…[would] break up the foundations of the Union…. I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general [federal] government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore…never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold as at market.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer
[Article from CNSNews.com, links added by CNSNews.com staff]

(CNSNews.com) – The 86^thcongressional district of Rhode Island received $10.2 million in federal economic stimulus funds to save 57.9 jobs, according to Recovery.gov. In neighboring Connecticut, the state’s 42^nd congressional district did not receive any stimulus money yet 25 jobs were still saved or created.

The problem with these federal financial data, however, is that Rhode Island has just two congressional districts, not 86, and Connecticut has just five U.S. House seats, not 42. Also, the Web site states that $6.4 billion in stimulus money went to 440 congressional districts that do not exist, according to an analysis first reported by Watchdog.org, a division of the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity.

The watchdog’s analysis showed that the money invested in the non-existent congressional districts saved or created 30,000 jobs, based on the government data currently available to the public.

Recovery.gov is the Obama administration’s Web site designed to track the funds dispersed through the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Concerning the non-existent congressional districts and other data on Recovery.org, the Obama administration responded on Tuesday that it was a matter of kinks in the system and that all stimulus funds are traceable and documented.

“These are not non-existent congressional districts, these are improperly identified congressional districts,” Ed Pound, spokesman for the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, told CNSNews.com Tuesday. “It’s human error. People filling out these forms might not know their district.”

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Measure would audit the Fed’s monetary policies such as interest rates

[Article from MarketWatch.com]

bumpersticker from: http://www.cafepress.com/+are_you_better_off_now,392044147

A key congressional panel on Thursday approved legislation introduced by the Texas congressman that – for the first time in the central bank’s 95-year-history — would require government audits of Federal Reserve monetary policy, as well as how much the central bank has lent and will lend to specific banks.

Fed Chief Ben Bernanke and other key members of the Obama administration, including Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, had vigorously opposed the move.

The measure was approved by the House Financial Services Committee as it considered broad bank regulatory reform legislation, and included a package of other measures weakening the Fed’s power and capping how much it can lend or guarantee.

The committee is now poised to pass the entire bill and has scheduled its final vote on the legislation for December 1.

AM Report: Ron Paul vs. the Fed The News Hub panel discusses Ron Paul's Opinion piece in today's Journal, which argues for a more transparent Federal Reserve.

[Continue reading and view video here...]

Rep. Jack Murtha (D, CD 12-Johnstown, PA) did not hear the “NAYs”  clearly being louder than the “AYEs.”

This is the same 19th-termer Rep. Murtha who has his own $200,000,000.00 John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport, which sees on any given day, only about 80 passengers.  That’s right, eighty, not 80,000 or even 800. Oh, and the airport just got an $800,000.00 stimulus bonus.

This crook HAS TO GO!!

However, all you WI residents, I applaud James Sensenbrenner (R, CD 5-Brookfield, Waukesha WI)… We need more representatives like him in office! Make sure Sensenbrenner gets back in!

Today may have been the 404th  anniversary of Guy Fawkes’ Gunpowder Plot, guarding the gunpowder that was to be used for blowing up British Parliament.  But we Americans can give it a new twist in stirring things up!  No explosives needed.

If you’re a liberty-loving American Patriot, please visit http://www.thisnovember5th.com/ .  You can contribute to Debra Medina (Gubernatorial candidate, TX),  Rand Paul (US Senate, KY), Adam Kokesh (State Rep. Dist. 3 candidate, NM),  Peter Schiff (US Senate, CT), just to name a few.

You can also donate to these other liberty-loving, socially-responsible and fiscally conservative candidates such as David Smith, TX CD 2 and Joe Petronis, TX CD 10, by visiting their respective campaign websites.

Happy trails, folks, and support your favorite candidate!!    :-)