Please read the e-mail below before my comment:
Folks, we need to remember that our TeaParty Patriot movement has raised the fear level of losing power in many Caucus like DNC, RNC and all RINOs who are finding the brand of nationalist on their name. They are all fighting to divide our Movement and instead of trusting those involved, we are being turned to negative thoughts. For example, let's say that Tea Party Nation was to get paid for their service or make money. How does that differ from what is happening all around us. We need to step out in Faith and keep a broom around in case we find dirt.
As to the Ethics Committee scaring speakers into dropping out, how big the reach of the Shadow goes. Reminds one of what happened to Ross Perot, when it threatened the life of his daughter if he stayed in the race. There needs to be an full disclosure investigation of the Ethics Boards actions here, not a dark shadow on we Patriots.
Thank you Sherry fro finally standing up. Your timing may just be a blessing. If I were you , I would ask Governor Huckabee to drop everything and come to speak. He just may~
George
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 1:27 PM
Subject: Setting the Record Straight
A message to all members of Tea Party Nation | Setting The Record Straight by Sherry Phillips
Judson and I have stayed silent in the face of intense media scrutiny
and attacks by former members. As a wife and a mother, I have stood
by my husband and family and stayed strong in the face of many baseless
accusations and criticism. We have refrained from responding to many of the attacks that have been thrown at us from other "Tea Party" groups, in the belief we did not want to spread the divisions that are already hurting this movement even though that does not seem to be the consideration of some others involved in this movement. Because of the many TPN members' requests
and encouragement, I have decided to provide comment about Tea Party
Nation and the National Tea Party Convention. We will stay silent no longer. I hope my comments
and the issues I deal with in this note will provide some clarity.
American Liberty Alliance - Eric Odom's American Liberty Alliance
is a for profit company that takes donations. We agreed to a sponsorship
exchange where ALA would be a gold sponsor of the convention and we
would be a gold sponsor of the Tax Day Tea Party. Shortly after agreeing
to this exchange, Eric emailed Judson and me privately saying he was
supportive of us and this convention and did not want to pull out, because
he thinks this convention is going to be a huge success; however, some
his "influential supporters" were not happy about ALA's participation
in the convention and asked Eric to withdraw.
American Majority - After stating in the beginning they wanted
to co-sponsor the convention, they never answered repeated emails sent
asking them for confirmation of their attendance. They did not promote
the convention and did not put the convention on their calendar.
In fact Ned Ryun spent 5 minutes in an interview on Fox News talking
about the Tea Party movement and did not mention the convention at all.
Meanwhile, another training organization contacted us asking if they could
become a sponsor and if they could do a breakout session. We gladly
accepted and gave them American Majority's spots. On January 6, Ned's
assistant sent an email stating she was making travel arrangements for
them to come and participate in the convention and asked when did we
have their breakouts scheduled. I told her because of their non-response,
we gave American Majority's slots to this other organization. They
then requested that their logo be removed from the Convention website.
We complied with their request.
Tea Party Express - This group has been very supportive of us. They intended to do a small tour, culminating in an event Saturday afternoon prior to the banquet. Because of their efforts in the Scott Brown race and their intent to go after Harry Reid in Nevada, they simply cannot make the trip. We received a very nice email from them explaining their actions and restating their invitation to join them when they kick off their next tour in March. We will be there. We fully support their endeavors as they open their next tour in Nevada this spring.
Campaign for Liberty - We actively sought out Campaign for Liberty
as a sponsor of this convention. We were contacted several weeks ago
by the TN Director for CFL who wanted to co-sponsor the convention and
I put him in touch with our Sponsorship Chair. We have not heard anything
from them since.
Former Tea Party Nation Members - Several former members were
unanimously banned from our site for reasons running the gamut from
antagonism to passing on confidential information. These members have
been blogging, as well as discussing their association with liberal media outlets
and conspiring with each other to, "Take TPN and this convention
down".
In one of their more egregious statements a former member wrote that
Judson stated, "I want to make a million dollars from this movement."
Judson has never made this statement. He has stated on numerous occasions
that he would like TPN to have a million members all fighting for the
cause of conservatism!
Bill Hemrick - Mr. Hemrick made a business loan to Tea Party
Nation at a commercial interest rate. This loan has been paid back in
full. That is the full extent of any relationship we have had with Mr.
Hemrick.
Congressmen Bachmann and Blackburn - Both Congresswomen have
large targets on their backs and are rightfully concerned about backlash
they will receive from the left-leaning Democrat controlled House Ethics
Committee. Because of the complexity of the Ethics Code regarding House
Representatives, we have no doubt the Democrats would have found something
in that code to cause them problems once the convention was over. We
were also informed by Rep. Bachmann that both were being told two different
things by the House Ethics Committee in regard to their participation.
This of course sent up red flags to everyone involved. We do not blame
either Congressman for their decision to withdraw from the convention
and maintain a strong relationship with them both.
Tea Party Nation - Last February after Judson held one of the
first tea parties in the country in downtown Nashville, he came up with
the idea for a social networking site for conservatives. Judson and
I created Tea Party Nation. We formed the corporation. We financed the
corporation. We bought the domain name teapartynation.com, we purchased the servers and we pay for the
monthly expenses. We are a C-Corp and do not accept donations. Tea Party
Nation charges nothing to be a member and is run entirely by volunteers.
Recently, we have been able to start charging for advertising on the
site to help defray the costs of running the site.
As TPN has stated since its formation, we are not a non-profit. We prefer to offer free membership to conservative patriots so they may participate in the political process of restoring this nation to its founding principles without financial burdens, hardships or roadblocks to prevent their participation. Members are then able to choose their own way to spend their money without any involvement from TPN.
PayPal Account - We are using a business PayPal account for the convention. An email address is required to notify a contact when
payment is received and we are using my TPN email account at sherry@teapartynation.com as that notification email address. All money
in that account is transferred directly into the TPN business bank account.
We fully expect to break even during this event. We may even make
a few thousand dollars to cover local operating costs of TPN.
We have made the best of a tight budget and scaled back the price of
attending this convention as much as we could without putting TPN into
bankruptcy. The convention is sold out and we have a waiting list of
over five hundred people. We never did this to make us rich or
famous. Quite the contrary, we are patriots who love our country, our
members and the people who are coming to Nashville to attend this great
event.
For all of you who will be attending, we look forward to meeting you
this upcoming week and we thank everyone for the support and patriotism
in this fight against liberalism. God bless you all and I thank
you for your prayers and words of encouragement.
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