Tea Party to Canada: We’ll Beat Obama, Build Pipeline With You in 2013
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 06:03PM CONTACT:
Michael Patrick Leahy
michaelpatrickleahy@gmail.com
615-243-6869
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tea Party to Canada: We’ll Beat Obama,
Build Pipeline With You in 2013
January 18, 2012 - Local tea party leaders from around the country who have organized the ElectionDayTeaParty.com website sent a message of encouragement today to the Canadian people and Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
“Today, President Obama decided to reject the proposed Keystone Pipeline, which would bring tens of thousands of jobs to both the United States and Canada,” said Ben Cunningham, founder of the Nashville Tea Party. “In addition to creating jobs, the proposed Keystone Pipeline will also reduce our dependence on foreign energy. President Obama’s bad decision is yet another example of his continued rejection of free market principles. In this instance, Canada is embracing those principles while our own government is trampling upon them.
"Our message to the Canadian people is clear: the Tea Party is going to get out the vote to defeat Barack Obama and every incumbent supporter of collectivist statism in the election of 2012. When we win, the first agenda item after the repeal of ObamaCare will be the initiation of the Keystone Pipeline project.”
Teri Adams, President of the Independence Hall Tea Party Association, which held a July 4, 2011 Energy Independence Day Tea Party in Philadelphia, said, "Energy Independence is crucial to the financial success and security of the United States. The Keystone Pipeline project will move forward in the very near future."
"With staggering unemployment, skyrocketing energy and food prices; and the spectacular record of safe and reliable operations of land-based oil pipelines, the decision to shut down the Keystone Pipeline project is utterly inexplicable," said Christina Botteri, co-organizer of the Election Day Tea Party project. "Yet again, the President and his statist supporters in the regulatory agencies are buying the support of the hyper-environmental lobby, leaving hard-working Americans to pay his bill."
Lorie Medina, founder of the Frisco, Texas Tea Party and creator of the Victory in a Box Get-out-the Vote program added, “The Tea Party is back for the 2012 elections and stronger than ever. We’ve been flooded with volunteers at ElectionDayTeaParty.com who want to help get-out-the vote in November, 2012. I encourage everyone who supports the Keystone Pipeline and the jobs it will create to sign up at our website today. We’ll help you use your talents and energies in our campaign to restore this country.”
The first national event of Election Day Tea Party 2012 will be a celebration of the Tea Party movement’s 3rd anniversary on February 25th, 26th, and 27th. On February 27, 2009, the Tea Party movement was launched with simultaneous tea parties in fifty cities which were attended by more than 30,000 tea partiers. This was immediately followed by Tax Day Tea Party on April 15, 2009, when over 1 million tea partiers participated in rallies held in more than 900 cities.
Additional tea parties who’ve signed up to be part of Election Day Tea Party 2012 and the third anniversary celebration in February come from Tennessee, Alabama, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Mississippi, New Jersey, Texas, Delaware, Arkansas, Missouri, Ohio, Florida, and Connecticut. Election Day Tea Party 2012 anticipates that tea parties from every state will participate.
About Election Day Tea Party 2012: Election Day Tea Party 2012 is a project of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, an informal federation of thirty local tea parties from around the country who work collaboratively on national projects.
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