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Event Details
What: Missoula Tax Day Tea Party
Where: Downtown Post Office - 200 E. Broadway
(Broadway & Pattee)
When: April 15th 12p - 1p
Origins of the Tea Party
The Tax Day Tea Party is a national collaborative grassroots effort organized by Smart Girl Politics, Top Conservatives on Twitter, the DontGo Movement, and Just Citizens and many other online groups/coalitions.
The
Tea Party protests, in their current form, began in early 2009 when
Rick Santelli, the On Air Editor for CNBC, set out on a rant to expose
the bankrupt liberal agenda of the White House Administration and
Congress. Specifically, the flawed "Stimulus Bill" and pork filled
budget.
During Rick's rant, he called for
a "Chicago tea Party" where advocates of the free-market system could
join in a protest against out of control government spending.
A few days later, grassroots activists and average Joe Americans began organizing what would soon become the Nationwide Chicago Tea Party effort.
On February 27th, an estimated 30,000 Americans took to the street in 40+
cities accross the country in the first nationwide "Tea Party" protest.
Organizers of the February 27th events pledged to continue on with an even bigger
and better protest to follow the first. With April 15th being "Tax
Day", it was decided to schedule the second round of Tea Party protests
to ride alongside the tax deadline.
And with that, the "Tax Day Tea Party", the second round of the Nationwide Tea Party protests, moved into reality.
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