9/12 project
I talked with Marc Hodges, and we are going to work together to have an event on 9-12-09 in Wailuku.
Starting at 5:30, we will do some sign waiving at the corner of the State building in Wailuku. After about one hour, we will come down the street to my business location to do a pot luck party in the parking lot of 59 Kanoa St. This is the Old Hokama Music and TV building, across from Napa Auto parts and the Old Dairy Queen/Treats and Sweets/ Bali’s.
The theme should be about the Cap and Trade bill, Health bill, Bailouts, Stimulus, GM bailout, etc. Dont let the moment pass.
Let me know if you are interested.
Will try to make it with food. Any media lined up? Will you &/or Marc be reading a mission statement that they may publish? Anything going on in Lahaina? Do Maui Conservatives have anyone heading up the West Side? Who, contact? Would be easier, I work & Joe doesn’t drive but we want to participate.
Have some random questions about our national mess:
how much would we save if we eliminated the cushy pensions for Congress & Pres?
We are China’s slave, they have it both ways. They mfg most of the goods we buy and they hold the majority of our notes, we don’t buy their goods they call the notes.
Have more if interested. Thank you Bonnie
Protest is a short term thing. Advocation to alter direction of policy ideologically never ending. Decades of leftist infiltration of America’s institutions led to an electorate more accepting of socialist ideology. An entire generation has been trained from grade to four year university socialism is a viable economic theory.
Turning this around requires resolve on the same level.
Robbi at the Tea Party organizational at Marc Hodges’s home brought up the issue of re-naming it to reflect its founding principles. It makes sense, for example to call the organization The Thomas Paine Society of Maui, or something like that. The idea is to invoke a “grand feeling” permeating over the goals. Tea Party sounds temporary. Tea Party invokes protest, and leaves us open to Obama style encounter group developed counter fire.
When fund raising – if Marc was to go to the Ford Foundation or UOH’s network for a grant a name sounding temporary has much less weight than a society that is advocating applying Thomas Paine’s thinking to today’s issues. A society that will organize a course of instruction based on such principles at Maui schools and its college.
Protest is good, long term thought important. Just throwing this out.
Excellent Pat,
I will forward this response on to Marc. The Tea Party has different goals than the Mauiconservatives. We have similarities too. The meeting was encouraging with the good turnout. One of the goals of the protesting events are to let the public see we have a common cause, and they are invited to participate. There must be many more people sitting at home wondering what can we do to change the course of Hawaii and the country. This will be there call to action.
I will be glad to be part of this. See you then.
Glad to find out about the event next Saturday. I’ll do my best to be there.
There are also Freedom Rallys on the west side 10AM til Noon Honoapiilani Hwy fronting Cannery Mall
Then Kaahumanu Ave Central Maui fronting Kaahumanu shopping Mall.
from 2 to 4 PM