There’s a lot of righteous indignation over the revelations of the treatment some Tea Party and conservative groups received at the hands of Obama’s Internal Revenue Service. Heads have already begun to roll, or so we’re told.
And while the story about IRS harassment is sexy, the federal government doesn’t have a monopoly on governmental malfeasance. Bloggers need to drill down into this story. Drill down to the local level, or have you forgotten about the trouble Tea Parties had with city bureaucrats:
- Georgia: Atlanta Tea Party denied permit while Occupy Atlanta is given permission to trash the very same park.
- Vermont: The City of Rutland Board of Aldermen, a collection of eleven elected officials, reviewed the permit, and in a meeting on the evening of April 6, 2009, voted to deny the permit, which had already been approved by the Department of Parks and Recreation.
- Virginia: Two weeks after the Richmond Tea Party delivered an invoice to Richmond Mayor Dwight Jones for costs incurred for previous rallies; we received a letter from the City of Richmond formally stating that the city is auditing our Tea Party. Coincidence?
- Nebraska: A financial adviser who has become the face of the tea party in Nebraska says his politics led to harassment by the state Banking Department.
- Florida: …today in Cape Coral, Florida…city officials canceled a tax day tea party gathering because they “feel too many people could show-up.”
- Texas: Brendan Steinhuser of FreedomWorks is reporting that another official of an American city is trying to prevent organizers of a tea party tax protest from being “allowed” to stage their protest, this time in Burleson, Texas.
I’m sure there are more, but five examples shows what I’m talking about.
If you blog, you should be looking around your state for instances of local harassment of Tea Parties. It could be a story that needs told.
And if you know of something that needs sunlight on it, let me know. I’ll do what I can.
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