Tax Day Tea Party Protest Set for Coolidge Park April 15

Posted by: Mark West - March 17, 2010

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (March 17) – The Chattanooga Tea Party (a nonprofit organization) and North Georgia Tea Parties today announced that the second annual tax day tea party rally will be held Thursday, April 15 at Coolidge Park on Chattanooga’s North Shore. The event will get underway at 4 p.m. with the opening of concession tables and recorded music as people start to gather.

The official 90-minute program will start at 5:30 p.m. and will include live music, petition signing tables, food and memorabilia concessions, a few short speeches by concerned citizens as well as a keynote speaker, audience participation and family fun. Attendees are urged to bring lawn chairs, "family-friendly" signs and flags.

Last year, more than 850 tea parties were held across the country on April 15 with over 1.2 million citizens in attendance including Chattanooga's event with an estimated attendance of 2500. The theme for this year's event is "Promoting Liberty and Restoring Values".

The local Chattanooga and North Georgia tea parties are non-partisan, independent grass roots organizations that are loosely affiliated with the national tea party movement, whose core values of fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free markets continue to be our unified rallying cry.

Event Details
Date: April 15, 2010 (Thursday)
Concessions open at 4 p.m., program runs from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Location: Coolidge Park on Chattanooga’s North Shore.
Please RSVP at h ttp://chattanoogateaparty.com/singleevent.php?id=22
Donations will be gladly accepted at the event to help defray costs.

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3RD DISTRICT LIBERTEA DEBATE DRAWS MORE THAN 530 ATTENDEES

Posted by: Brendan Jennings - March 2, 2010

The first in a series of LiberTea Debates, co-sponsored by the Chattanooga Tea Party and the Hamilton County Campaign for Liberty, was a success, drawing more than 530 people to the event Saturday afternoon, February 28.

This first debate of six Republican candidates vying for the 3rd District seat currently held by Zach Wamp, who is running for Tennessee governor, was hosted by Woodland Park Baptist Church in its spacious facility off Standifer Gap Road. The six candidates, including Tommy Crangle, Chuck Fleischmann, Tim Gobble, Van Irion, Art Rhodes and Robin Smith, sat through 90 minutes of questions submitted by co-moderators Renee LaSalle (WDEF news anchor) and Gregg Juster and made themselves available to speak individually with attendees for another 75 minutes in separate rooms off the main auditorium.

“I was pleased that we had such a nice turnout on one of the few sunny and mild days we’ve had lately,” said Mark West, CTP president. “I couldn’t have been more pleased and we couldn’t have set this up and kept so closely to the schedule without the help of all of the volunteers from the Chattanooga Tea Party, the Hamilton County Campaign for Liberty and the Community Impact Team at Woodland Park Baptist Church. We are looking forward to posting the candidates' written responses to all the debate questions on our website by March 15.”

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3rd District LiberTea Debate Rescheduled for February 27

Posted by: Brendan Jennings - February 8, 2010

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (Feb. 6) – The Chattanooga Tea Party and Campaign for Liberty have confirmed a new date for the LiberTea Debate of the six announced Republican candidates for Tennessee’s 3rd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives for Saturday, February 27, 2010, from 2-5 p.m. at Woodland Park Baptist Church. The debate will be free and open to the public.

The six candidates are Tommy Crangle, Chuck Fleischmann, Tim Gobble, Van Irion, Arthur Rhodes and Robin Smith.

The media is invited to cover this debate as a public service to help inform voters of the choices they will face. At the conclusion of the debate, each participating candidate will have an opportunity to meet with and answer attendees’ questions in a separate room, allowing attending citizens to meet with candidates to further discuss issues of interest to them.

The Chattanooga Tea Party and the Chattanooga area Campaign for Liberty are both non-partisan grassroots organizations seeking to educate and inform their members and the public at large of the fundamental issues and struggles our country is facing. Additionally both organizations are committed to energizing voters to become engaged in the process of solving the nation’s problems.

Event Details

Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010

Debate Time: 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

“Meet the Candidate” Time: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Format: Moderator to present questions (submitted by CTP and C4L members)

Location: Woodland Park Baptist Church (Chattanooga)

Please RSVP to Chattanooga Tea Party’s Facebook page (link at ChattanoogaTeaParty.com).

Donations will be gladly accepted at the event to help defray costs.

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Tax Day Tea Party Set for Ross’s Landing Wednesday, April 15

Posted by: Bryan Haddock - March 4, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.) – A grassroots group of citizens in the Chattanooga area has scheduled a Tea Party rally at Ross’s Landing for Wednesday, April 15, from 4-7 p.m.

April 15 is the deadline for 2008 federal tax returns to be mailed.

The local tea party event is part of a growing, non-partisan national movement to protest the federal government’s recent and projected spending of trillions of dollars to bail out financially troubled companies and stimulate a lagging economy. Chattanooga is currently one of more than 400 cities nationwide for which April 15 tea party protests are being planned, 15 in Tennessee alone.

According to Mark West, the Chattanooga event coordinator, the unprecedented rate of spending with little prior thought is what most angers taxpayers.

“There is little apparent deliberation or accountability for some of these massive spending bills in Congress,” he said. “It’s bad enough that we are going to saddle generations of Americans with debt through this unprecedented, excessive spending. But to do so without Congress exercising the proper due diligence and consideration of its Constitutional limits before engaging in this spending spree is downright criminal.”

“This event on April 15th is one of the opportunities citizens have to let their voices be heard in Washington,” West said.

It will be a family-friendly event, and attendees are urged to bring lawn chairs and a can of food for the Chattanooga Area Food Bank. You won’t want to miss this opportunity.

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