What is this? Alvin Brown snubbing the Tea Party request for information?

[wsansewjs]

o Alvin Brown doesn't want to be associated with the Tea B***ers (hilarious that that word is now practically a racial slur), so what??

Who said anything about racial slurs? All they requested from him was that he fill out their questionnaire.

I was making reference to the practically passing of legislation that was passed to make the term "tea bagger" considered an offensive term.  People in the tea party are hypocritical and scared.  They're willing to use horrible epithets to describe everyone else, but if you make one hilarious insult toward them they freak out.

Either way, this is the pot calling the kettle black.  If I had a nickel for every group or event that Hogan snubbed in this election, I'd have enough to finance one Mullaney vote.  This is the first thing anyone can peg Alvin Brown with, so the baggers are jumping all over it.  He's not wrong for trying to distance himself from them, I think he is very right for doing it.  The tea party is a party of fear, and this is just another example.

What makes it better is that the Teabaggers originally called themselves that, in all their literature, and in the requests to send teabags to congress.

It wasnt until Wonkette and Gawker pointed out that the term was a stripping move that they suddenly wanted to change their name.

I actually like to call them "Teabaggers" because it really does fit them due to the historical reference, not the sexual term.

They remind me of these....



Source and disclaminer: Google Image. Just random photo, no way of referring to any specific person or their identity.

-Josh

[FayeforCure]

Does anyone think that Brown would accept a debate at the local Fire or Police Unions either? Each has strong factions behind them, and the fact that Brown chose to evade the tea party shows me that he is not infallible.

Actually yes, any group that has persuadable members is a good group to meet with. So definitely meeting local Fire and Police Unions would be beneficial for sure.

Has anyone seen the tea partiers be persuadable to jobs from High Speed Rail for example?

This was federal money that when rejected by tea party governor Rick Scott was not used to reduce the federal deficit...........but likely is now rerouted to CA.

The pension (cutting) issue is an issue that worries the firefighters, and Alvin Brown can speak to that. I know there are many firefighters who are not voting for Hogan, despite that silly endorsement.

The Jacksonville firefighter union is for sure the only firefighter union anywhere that would endorse a generally pension cutting arch conservative Tea Party candidate. As we've seen, Rick Scott has been solidly anti-middle class.

[duvaldude08]

Ok so let me get this straight. Alvin is wrong because he doesnt want to talk to the "tea party"?? I mean really who the hell are they? Who cares? That his choice. Just like Mike Hogan has refuse to talk to the public on several occasions, Alvin can refuse to talk to the tea party.

[JeffreyS]

I think he should talk to the tea party. Don't waste a bunch of time on a group that endorsed your opponent.  Respond to the questionnaire just be careful as you are talking to a group who has stated their intention to defeat you.

[Ocklawaha]

Source and disclaminer: Google Image. Just random photo, no way of referring to any specific person or their identity.

-Josh

Josh, are those TEA PARTY MEMBERS? I really have a hard time telling with all of their clothes on...

Oh......

OCKLAWAHA

[peestandingup]

I hope he at least wiped his ass with the questionnaire & put it to some good use.

[north miami]

How easily we are manipulated,plodding down paths winding through the mirage of public politic, "press" discourse.

What were the galvanizing events......images actually,that first lodged "Tea Party" during the past couple of years??

Snap out of it.With every reference and thought of "Tea Party",insist instead "Libertarian"

[duvaldude08]

How easily we are manipulated,plodding down paths winding through the mirage of public politic, "press" discourse.

What were the galvanizing events......images actually,that first lodged "Tea Party" during the past couple of years??

Snap out of it.With every reference and thought of "Tea Party",insist instead "Libertarian"

In english please? 

[danem]

There's not much libertarian about current incarnation of Tea Party, particularly in the realm of social issues.

[Jimmy]

Exactly right, danem.  At least in the south, the tea party is nothing different than the moral majority from the 80's, the Buchanan brigades from the 90's, or the 28%ers (those who always approved of Bush) from the Oughts.  What Ron Paul started was quickly hijacked by so-cons and theocrats.

[Jaxson]

I am skeptical of the Tea Party movement not because of their activism, but because of the inconsistencies that I see in their beliefs.  The Tea Party movement is very quick to point out how working people, lower classes and the labor unions are bleeding our government dry.  This scapegoating is effective because of the still-vivid imagery of the 'welfare queen.'  Yet, when it comes to corporations and their influence over government, the Tea Party is unusually silent.  I would take the Tea Party movement more serious if they were truly a populist movement that wants government to work better for all Americans.  When I see the Tea Party folks, I do not see grassroots, I see AstroTurf - an artificial movement that turns a blind eye to corporate excesses and corruption.  They are being used and they do not know it.

[tufsu1]

exactly jaxson...Billie Tucker's ridiculous contract with JEA was defended as "she has a right to earn a living".

[hillary supporter]

This is ridiculous.  So Alvin Brown doesn't want to be associated with the Tea B***ers (hilarious that that word is now practically a racial slur),

I go with Bill Maher's point," i'll stop calling them 'teabaggers" when they stop calling it "Obamacare"!

[Timkin]

Ok so let me get this straight. Alvin is wrong because he doesnt want to talk to the "tea party"?? I mean really who the hell are they? Who cares? That his choice. Just like Mike Hogan has refuse to talk to the public on several occasions, Alvin can refuse to talk to the tea party.

  10-4 !  Agreed

[futurejax]

The Tea Party is supporting a guy who is going to give in to every request to the biggest public sector unions in te city and they expect to be taken serious here?