Contract from America signing at Cleveland Tax Day Tea Party

At the recent Tax Day Tea Parties hundreds of local Tea Party and limited government groups around the country joined together to announce the launch of the "Contract from America," a grassroots legislative blueprint for 2010 and beyond.

Grassroots activists from across the country visited the website to choose their top ten priorities from a list of 21 action items that committed Americans from all walks of life proposed. The top ten issues comprise the final Contract. After garnering nearly half a million votes in less than two months, the Contract from America has now been finalized into a blueprint that will serve notice to public officials about what the people want for their future.

Bob Frantz of WTAM/1100 led the unveiling of the Contract from America at our 2nd Annual Cleveland Tax Day Tea Party...


10th Congressional District candidate Peter Corrigan

13th Congressional District candidate Justin Wooden


Secretary of State candidate Sandra O'Brien


OH House District 7 candidate Tony Hocevar

OH House District 14 candidate Dave Morris was present, but was called into work immediately prior to the ceremonial signing. Mr. Morris has signed the actual Contract from America though.

We want to thank these candidates for attending and participating in our ceremonial signing of the Contract from America.

Understanding that this is not an endorsement and that the Tea Parties do not exist for candidates or political parties, but for "We the People", the Contract from America will be in front of many candidates and politicians running for reelection and asking if they support this grass roots crafted contract.

More information about each plank, including its full description and the name of the activist who first proposed it, is available at the Contract from America’s website (Click here).

Cleveland Tax Day Tea Party; Operation Pink Slip

At our 2nd Annual Tax Day Tea Party this past Thursday.... Thanks to member Tom Dzurko -- Operation Pink Slip -- was launched.

Joining Bob Frantz (WTAM/1100) on stage, Tom & Bob led the crowd in sending a message to Congress!


And boy did the crowd join in!

Contract from America to be unveiled at Tax Day Tea Parties

Please join us at our 2nd Annual Tax Day Tea Party (click for details) where we will be unveiling the grass roots built Contract from America.

From Contract from America

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(Alexandria, VA) – The Tea Party Patriots, a national umbrella organization for hundreds of local tea party groups around the country, joined today with the National Taxpayers Union, FreedomWorks, and Americans for Tax Reform, three of the nation’s most prominent free-market advocacy groups, to announce the upcoming April 15 launch of the “Contract from America,” a grassroots legislative agenda for 2010 and beyond. Originally proposed by Ryan Hecker, a Houston Tea Party activist and National Coordinator for the project’s chief organizing group Tea Party Patriots, the Contract is a different kind of agenda for our federal lawmakers: unlike the Contract with America from the 1990s, every plank of the Contract from America was proposed and voted on by everyday citizens.

After a fight that seemed to last forever, Congressional leaders were finally successful in ramming through a controversial $2.5 trillion health care plan. They did it despite poll results showing that the bill was deeply unpopular, and despite efforts from of millions of taxpayers who contacted Congress, came to townhall meetings, and attended protests to speak out against the proposal. Now those taxpayers can use their frustration to do more than just protest – they can change the direction of our
country.

Right now, concerned citizens can visit the Contract FROM America website (www.contractfromamerica.org) and choose their top ten priorities from a list of 21 planks proposed by committed Americans from all walks of life. By asking website visitors to propose and vote on the agenda, the result will be not a list handed down from on high by old-bull politicians, but one handed up from the true grassroots in this country. Once voting is complete on Monday, April 5, 2010, the Contract will be finalized into a blueprint that will serve notice to public officials about what the people want for their future.

As of April 1, over 360,000 votes had been cast on the Contract website. The three most popular planks were: (1) beginning the process of enacting a balanced budget amendment to our Constitution, (2) requiring legislation to cite the Constitutional provision under which it is authorized, and (3) rejecting “cap-and-trade” national energy tax proposals.

Tea Party Patriots (www.teapartypatriots.org), National Taxpayers Union (www.ntu.org), FreedomWorks (www.freedomworks.org), and Americans for Tax Reform (www.atr.org) are nonpartisan, nonprofit citizen organizations working for lower taxes and smaller government.

2nd Annual Cleveland Tax Day Tea Party

Cleveland Tea Party Patriots
2nd Annual

Tax Day Tea Party

"Takin' it to the Street"

• Date: Tax Day April 15, 2010
• Time: 4pm - 6:30pm
• Location: Mall C / Downtown Cleveland
• Address: E.6th & Lakeside

Last year on April 15th 2009, millions of hardworking Americans stood in unison in over 800 protests around the country.

These protests, which became known as the Tax Day Tea Party, expressed real concerns against reckless government spending and spawned millions of Americans to get involved in their local Tea Parties which today are holding elected officials accountable.

With our nation at a time like no other since we’ve gained our Independence, it is important, now more than ever, that YOUR voice be heard. Please join us & your fellow Americans in celebrating this non-partisan, grass roots movement sweeping the nation!

Listed in no particular order, our speakers will be covering a whole range of topics;

• Bob Frantz (WTAM 1100)
• Al Wilson (PCCOH)
• Colleen Holmes (Eagle Forum / Executive Director)
• Maryanne Petranek (Cuyahoga County for Liberty)
• Jack Boyle (End Ohio Estate Tax)
• Mike Carey (Ohio Coal Association / President)
• Ross Phar ( Young Americans for Liberty)
• Russ Scarvelli (Operation Firing for Effect / Veterans Advocacy)
• Jim Trakas (former OH State Rep.)
• Jim Bridgens (Oath Keepers)
• Dr. Walker Todd (J.D., Ph.D. Research Fellow, American Institute for Economic Research)

Along with our great list of speakers, C.J. & Adeena will again be blessing our ears with thier incredible voices (Listen Here). And wait until you hear the patriotic pipes on CTPP's co-coordinator Glynn Urban as she sings her song "Freedom" (Listen Here).

To top everything off, the Tea Party Patriots, National Taxpayers Union, FreedomWorks, and Americans for Tax Reform will be unvieling the Contract from America at Tax Day Tea Parties across the country. Help draft the final version of the Contract from America. Click here to vote on your priorities.

Groups supporting & participating in this years Tax Day Tea Party are to date;

Lake/Geauga Tea Party Patriots
Bowling Green Tea Party Patriots
Cleveland 9.12 Project
Burton 9.12 Project
Cuyahoga County for Liberty
Young Americans for Liberty
John Carroll Conservatives
Grass Roots Rally Team of OH
N/E Ohio Value Voters
Ohio Jobs & Justice PAC
Ohio Coal Association
Oath Keepers
Heartland Institute