Posted by
Gabrielle Cusumano on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:59:09 PM
the Tea Party movement is planning a "strike" against corporations they call responsible for "funding socialism" and "backing the leftist agenda" of the new president.
by Stephanie Condon (CBS). Excerpt
As the one-year anniversary of President Obama's inauguration nears, the Tea Party movement is planning a "strike" against corporations they call responsible for "funding socialism" and "backing the leftist agenda" of the new president.
Liberal politicians benefit from "large donors, labor union thugs, Hollywood elites and major media propagating our destruction," contends strike organizer Allen Hardage at the Tea Party Patriots web site.
In the wake of the economic downfall and the financial and auto bailouts of the past year, the tea party movement sprang up to represent conservative voters who felt disenfranchised. The election of a Democratic president intent on promoting new government spending on things like health care has spurred on the movement, prompting protests against big government and its ties to big business.
Hardage writes that on Jan. 20 "the TEA Party movement moves into the next phase, TEA 2.0, of taking our country back... We will demonstrate our power and reach to those companies who employ individuals backing the leftist agenda in every major city, every congressional district and every small rural town in America to spread one unified message. That message is simple: Stop funding socialism."
Hardage told Talking Points Memo that he will not release the companies which the strike will target until Jan. 20. but that it will focus on businesses "that are the largest supporters of the most liberal members of Congress as well as those that support extreme liberal media outlets." http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/01/05/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry6057569.shtml?tag=dis