Turning Local

There are hundreds of local tea party groups all over the country.  Most never get mentioned on the national networks and cable news channels.  Only the big, splashy, well-funded ones do.  The funny thing is that those groups have little to no relationship with the reality on the ground for us little local groups.  So let them make the headlines, let them go to DC and rub elbows, we've got important work to do here at home.

Connecticut is in trouble.  We've got a terrible union "concessions" "deal" that involves guaranteed jobs and pay raises (huh?) and a massive, retroactive, tax hike coming.  In addition to that, we've got a legislature than spends its time debating whether crossdressing men can use a public ladies room, whether marijuana should be legal, whether restaurant owners should be forced to give one hour of sick time for every week of work, and whether we should seal our borders with toll booths.  Tolls, taxes, taboo subjects, toking up, and token sick days. Good grief. Keeping an eye on our legislators is a full time job.

And that's not the only thing we Connecticut tea partiers need to worry about.  The Republican party is a hot mess.  Many of us tried to get a state central committee member spot only to be rebuffed by long time insiders at every turn.  Heck, all some of us wanted to do was to be delegates to the convention to vote for the committee member, and they were blocked from even doing that!  Some made it, some didn't.  Now it moves to the municipal elections.  It will interesting to see how many BOE and Town Council primary fights we have.  I'm guessing more than a few.

Its been a long 2 years, and the next two will be even longer.  I hope my fellow warriors will hold off on those plans to move out of state for just a little bit longer.