Since they were advertised as “non partisan,” I attended the first two local Tea Party meetings. When I heard the Republican speaker at the second meeting I knew this was, indeed, a very partisan group. There must be some legal reason that these are not called Political Action Committees or PACS, but that is exactly what they are—- Republican PACs.

There were a couple of really irritating remarks made by the speaker. She kept stating that we were in danger of “losing the Constitution” with President Obama, but she never explained exactly what that meant—-what freedom we might be losing. The only time I’ve heard of a proposed change in the Constitution was when someone at the Joe Barton meeting asked if we might change the 14th Amendment to the Constitution so that Mexican babies born in the U.S. would not be American citizens; and I don’t think that suggestion came from a Democrat.

Another thing that really hit me hard was her “two facedness.” She said you should vote for the best candidate, but when she saw how many people there were unhappy with Gov. Perry, she urged them to vote for him anyway because he was a Republican. This meeting was really a Republican Get-Out- The-Vote Rally. Why not be honest and advertise it as that?

What both Republicans and Democrats better see is that someone from outside our country is trying to “divide and conquer,” and it seems to be working. You need to look into Rick Perry’s involvement in the Bilderberg Group. This is an invitationonly group which originated in Europe and is interested in New World Order. They are an elite group who get together and decide how the world should be governed. Scary, huh? I think that had a lot to do with Gov. Perry’s Trans Texas Corridor, which would have given a large strip of Texas land to be controlled by the country of Spain. Remember the Trans Texas Corridor in November!

In conclusion, when I taught history, I told my students that there was no one group of people that were all good or all bad. That same principle goes for religions and political groups. I wanted to be a member of a “Watchdog” group that would look for bad politicians in both parties, but the Tea Party is not the group to do that, no matter what they say in their advertisements!

Barbara Price Fairfield