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The Tea Party movement was popularly launched following a February 19, 2009, call by CNBC reporter Rick Santelli on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for a "tea party". [26] [27] On February 20, 2009, The Nationwide Tea Party Coalition also helped launch the Tea Party movement via a conference call attended by around 50 conservative ...
Tea Party protesters walk towards the United States Capitol during the Taxpayer March on Washington, September 12, 2009. A relatively new element of conservatism is the Tea Party movement, a libertarian grassroots movement comprising over 600 local units who communally express dissatisfaction with the government and both major parties. [265]
The Tea Party movement is founded, in part emerging from libertarian conservative Ron Paul's 2008 campaign for the Republican nomination. [187] [188] [189] The loosely organized conservative movement demands rigorous adherence to the Constitution, lower taxes, lower deficits, restrictions on illegal immigrants, and opposes Obama's health care ...
The following American politicians were affiliated with the Tea Party movement, which was generally considered to be conservative, libertarian-leaning, [1] and populist. [2] [3] [4] The Tea Party movement advocated for reducing the U.S. national debt and federal budget deficit by reducing federal government spending and taxes.
The "grass-roots activists who identify to a large extent with the leaderless tea party movement" played a part in Scott Walker's election to Governor of Wisconsin in 2010 as well as his recall election victory in 2012. [73] [74] A FOX News exit poll showed Tea Party support was a key part of Walker's win in 2012, just as it was in 2010. [75]
While he had many sources confirming the use of "Tea Party" and related criteria described in the report, including employee interviews and e-mails, he found no indication in any of those other materials that "Progressives" was a term used to refer cases for scrutiny for political campaign intervention. [83]
The Tea Party Caucus (TPC) was a congressional caucus of the Republican Party in the United States House of Representatives, consisting of its most conservative members. [11] [12] It was founded in July 2010 by Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann in coordination with the Tea Party movement the year following the movement's 2009 creation.
Debbie Dooley is a "prominent Georgia conservative activist" [1] and one of the original founders of the Tea Party movement in the United States. She is known for her advocacy for rooftop solar power which she sees as an issue of personal power versus corporate energy monopolies.