It's "Tea" time in Douglas as the city prepares for its first Tea Party meeting .
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Local Tea Party organizer Dorothea Packard-Watkins said, “I wanted to start a Tea Party in Douglas because this is where the horror is happening with the border and it is time for change.
“The Tea Party is a spontaneous gathering of local people who want to see a change.”
Jesse Kelly, a candidate for U.S. Congress will be one of the main speakers. Also, at the local event will be Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet, Founder and Medical Director of Her Place: Health Enhancment and Renewal for Women and Gabby Mercer, Smart Girl Politics.
Kelly is a former United States marine who moved to Tucson in 2004. His primary policy is to finish the double layer border fence. He has been to Douglas many times and has also toured the border.
Kelly wants to secure the border first and stop the influx of illegal immigration, then work towards building up legal immigration policies and funding, Director of Communications, John Ellinwood, said.
He became involved with the Tea Party in 2009 in Tucson and has been involved in Benson, Wilcox, Bisbee, Green Valley, Sonoita and more. The Tea Party will be hosting an event July 17 at the Gadsden Hotel from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. the public is invited.
What is the Tea Party?
The reason for the Tea Party movement is to stop excessive government spending and taxation, the Tea Party Patriots Web site said. Their mission is to attract, educate, organize, and mobilize fellow citizens to secure public policy consistent with their three core values of Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government and Free Markets.
The Tea Party movement started in 2009 as a reaction in large part to the Obama administrations health care reform, the Website said.
For questions, email dorotheawatkins58@gmail.com
Comments
Cafe wrote on Jul 23, 2010 6:51 AM:
Realist wrote on Jul 22, 2010 10:41 PM:
Weseethechange wrote on Jul 15, 2010 3:11 PM:
javers2080 wrote on Jul 14, 2010 3:36 PM:
tomas wrote on Jul 13, 2010 3:40 PM:
Douglas Republican wrote on Jul 13, 2010 3:05 PM:
Latino_Colonial wrote on Jul 13, 2010 2:59 PM:
The All American-American wrote on Jul 12, 2010 7:47 PM:
I wouldn't know much about our ever so corrupt communal politics but I refuse to condone superficial and un-founded remarks. Now I happen to know who Ms. Novoa-Benson is. I met her a couple of times and seemed to be a nice and informed individual. Our problems with our border are apalling and out of control. I was born in Douglas, raised in Mexico for half of my childhood and came back home. Le agradesco por categorizarme como racista ya que defiendo nuestras leyes migratorias (con todo mi sarcasmo le reprocho). I choose to set my foot down and fight for what is right and decide not to pander to the mafioso hierarchy that has decades of consumption to our already cancerous town (disgruntled much?). I propose anybody who "fights for ILLEGAL Immigrants interests" are racist themselves, yes that means you and your genocidal mindset. If you want to get your panties all bunched up for somebody you might have a bad blood with, more power to you, but let real people who care about their community (and country) do their job instead of slowing them down. Thank You. "
Mario wrote on Jul 12, 2010 12:17 AM:
Hateful wrote on Jul 11, 2010 12:33 AM:
What A Joke wrote on Jul 7, 2010 10:15 PM:
No disrespect to this meeting at all, just another way for Mrs. Novoa-Benson to spread her negative views twords Hispanics (even though she will not admit to be one)!!! "