08-13-2010, 01:13 PM
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‘Three core values span everything we do’
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‘Three core values span everything we do’
Chris Littleton, 31, helped found the Cincinnati Tea Party last year. He says he’s has gone from someone who "never voted in a primary" to political activist. He’s closely following a rematch between former Republican congressman Steve Chabot. of Cincinnati and the Democrat who defeated him last year, Democratic Rep. Steve Driehaus.
"I had nothing to do with politics. I actually probably wanted nothing to do with politics. Until we all kind of crossed that line, which is: ‘All right, we need to engage at this point or else the nation is going to hell in a handbasket and if we don’t do something about it then, that’s exactly what’s going to happen.’
"So there are high numbers of new people, and I think that’s really the win for the campaign. ... "My idea was ... if McDonald’s can have a franchise on every corner, why can’t people of like minds? Dump this party nonsense, this partisan nonsense and that’s to where we are. There are certain things that I think 80-90% of people believe in, and let’s focus on those things, and let’s put one of these little groups in every single precinct, every single voting precinct, every neighborhood in the United States.
"We have three core values that really, I guess, span everything we do. ... One, a fundamental limitation of government. The limited government is key. We believe that the more control and influence the size of government, the more it grows, the less important the individual is. ... "And then the next would be fiscal responsibility. There is no excuse in the world why our government can’t be fiscally responsible. ... "And the last one is free markets or you could call it free enterprise. The ability to earn your own way, to generate your own wealth, to create your own American dream should be relatively free from all of the inhibitions of the government."
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In their own words: Tea Party activists speak out - Yahoo! News
Short version. Every group will have their hot spots, but some will STILL say the Tea Party has no direction.
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