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Dick Armey lobbied in regards to the Stimulus Plan; what did he do? - 11/20/2009

... tea parties organizer, head of FreedomWorks, and former Rep. Dick Armey lobbied in regards to the stimulus plan. The documents don't indicate what the lobbying consisted of, but there's certainly a fair possibility that he wasn't lobbying to reduce the amount of the stimulus.

Liberals cheer racism, repudiation of U.S. sovereignty at tea party protest (Daniel Tencer) - 11/16/2009

... Reynolds nor Pajamas Media nor FreedomWorks nor other usual suspects promoted them; this illustrates once again that those pulling the strings on the tea parties movement are libertarians who at the least are weak on immigration if not outright open borders loons. 2. The "partiers" bend over backwards to point out that their movement isn't just for white people; Tencer is just smea...

Ironic: Dick Armey's support for massive immigration leads to more spending, bigger government - 11/12/2009

... Parties leader Dick Armey of FreedomWorks spoke at the Cato Institute about various topics including immigration (cato.org/pubs/policy_report/pr-ja-da.html), and his remarks are incredibly ironic: his immigration policies lead to the opposite of the other policies he claims to support. Most of what he supported then has since occurred albeit on a smaller scale, and we know how that worked out. No...

Max Blumenthal smears tea parties in "Teabagger Tour" video - 9/15/2009

... front man Dick Armey" (of FreedomWorks). As can be seen by his name's link, I'm not a big fan of Baby Max. At the same time, as can be seen at the DC link above and in the main tea parties coverage I'm not much of a fan of them either. However, what Blumenthal will never discuss is that when it comes to immigration, both he and Armey are on the same general side. It's als...

Irony deficient Christopher Knight of LAT: "Glenn Beck's '9-12' logo based on communist and socialist designs" - 9/14/2009

... discussion last month about how FreedomWorks controls the "grassroots" movement, specifically the logo: In that FreedomWorks response, forwarded to the group a few days earlier by Jenny Beth and also obtained by TPMmuckraker, Brendan Steinhauser, an organizer for the corporate-backed group, explained that FreedomWorks would stick with its original logo, which shows raised fists in front...

9/12: Tea Party march on Washington DC live coverage (Glenn Beck, Freedomworks) - 9/12/2009

... in (at their own expense) by FreedomWorks (run by the corporate lobbyist Dick Armey). Hopefully many will be wearing period costumes and playing fifes, since we know that playing dress-up games is in their DNA. Will there be a blimp? Wait and see! To prepare yourself for the Ron Pa Patriotic March By The Only True Patriots In The United States, watch this video of corporate lobbyist Dick Armey su...

2007: Dick Armey sticks up for illegal aliens, "bless their hearts" - 9/04/2009

... 2007 and features Dick Armey of FreedomWorks (also a tea parties organizer) sticking up for illegal aliens. He claims "I don't like illegal immigration", but then engages in indirect baby-waving in order to in effect support it. While the video is a recent upload to Youtube, it's been available for a while at Reason Magazine (including a couple comments from me: reason.com/blo...

"Energy Citizens": tea partiers' love for corporations goes unrequited (FreedomWorks) - 8/23/2009

... partiers!" And, in fact, FreedomWorks did call them in to the Houston rally. However, those inside the meeting apparently didn't want to rub shoulders with the hoi polloi and turned them away, as you can see on the attached video. Bear in mind that the source is Public Citizen via ThinkProgress [1], so there's the possibility that it was faked up. However, that appears to be slight...

Helen Krieble's absurd Red Card "Temporary" Workers "Solution" - 6/23/2009

Helen Krieble - president of the Vernon K. Krieble Foundation, an heir to the Loctite fortune, and an associate of Dick Armey - has been pushing her own guest workers plan for a few years. Now, apparently she wants to give it yet another try and has come out with the "Red Card" scheme, which is similar to the plan offered a few years ago by Mike Pence. In a word, her plan is absurd: it&#...

Tea parties have arrived! Paul Krugman does hit piece on them. - 4/13/2009

... a key role is being played by FreedomWorks, an organization run by Richard Armey, the former House majority leader, and supported by the usual group of right-wing billionaires. And the parties are, of course, being promoted heavily by Fox News. While there's at least one instance of "AstroTurf" (a video produced by the GOP), in the main the parties do represent an outpouring of pub...

Instapundit chats with tea party "facilitator" from Koch-linked group - 4/08/2009

... Party facilitators Matt Kibbe of Freedomworks and Chris Bond of Americans for Prosperity about tea parties and where they should go next. Click their name's link for more on the AFP; at least as of November of last year the chairman of their foundation's board was David Koch of the Koch family and they'd received money from that foundation; do a search for Kochtopus if you aren...

The stupidity of the tea parties rolls on, at much reduced rate - 3/30/2009

... re-authorize it. Since that time, FreedomWorks (freedomworks.org/blog/bstein80/cape-coral-tea-party-is-on) apparently bought insurance and filled out the forms or similar. Requiring permits for marches and the like is a very standard practice; cities can abuse those rules and if they do they should be sued. However, that's apparently not the case here: the city had reasonable demands that th...

"Tea Parties": an astroturfed Koch family movement (FreedomWorks, Instapundit, Rick Santelli) - 2/28/2009

... Institute and Reason Magazine to FreedomWorks. The scion of the Koch family, Fred Koch, was a co-founder of the notorious extremist-rightwing John Birch Society. ...ChicagoTeaParty.com was just one part of a larger network of Republican sleeper-cell-blogs set up over the course of the past few months, all of them tied to a shady rightwing advocacy group coincidentally named the “Sam Adams Alli...

Melanie Morgan "storms" Arlen Specter's office over stimulus bill, does nothing useful - 2/10/2009

Melanie Morgan of Move America Forward offers "Why I stormed Sen. Specter's office" (link), describing her visit (along with JimRob from FreeRepublic) to Arlen Specter's office in regards to the stimulus plan; see this for the background. Take a look at her description of the visit, and then ask yourself: what exactly was accomplished? The answer (aside from a little promotion ...

FreeRepublic delivers to-be-ignored letter to Specter about stimulus - 2/09/2009

Earlier today, a group of people from FreeRepublic including their leader Jim Robinson ("JimRob") presented a letter to Arlen Specter's office opposing the stimulus plan (link). Apparently Melanie Morgan was also involved in some way. It's a shame they didn't put an RFID tag on the letter or something, otherwise they could have found out how quickly it was thrown in the tr...

Dick Armey, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Mike Pence, and Helen Krieble do lunch - 9/26/2006

From their press release: FreedomWorks Foundation sponsored a luncheon for Capitol Hill staffers to discuss immigration reform that will balance both security and economic concerns. In particular, the forum will examine options for strengthening our borders while establishing procedures that provide law-abiding workers a legitimate path to the American workplace. FreedomWorks chairman and form...

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