Tea Party Rally
Tea party rallies took place across America while members marched Sunday on Capitol Hill promising to mobilize a surge of conservative voters on election day to take back the country.
“They say a storm is coming,” Virginia Thomas told thousands of attendees at the Washington event. “They ain’t seen nothing yet. Nov. 2 will be a storm!”
The rally was organized by the Washington-based advocacy group FreedomWorks. Matt Kibbe, president of Freedom Works, said his group was already looking past election day.
“Every two years, politicians come to you to promise to change the culture in Washington,” Kibbe said. “Politicians in Washington don’t mean it. You can’t change the culture in Washington. But what the tea party is doing today is changing the culture in America.”
Organizers say the event is intended to call attention to what they describe as big government run amok and to recall the sense of national unity Americans felt the day after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
“We’ve lost respect in the world. We are going broke. The American dream is dying and our social and cultural fabric is unraveling,” said Republican Congressman Mike Pence. “People are scared. If we do not succeed in November, all that once was good and great about this country could someday be gone.”
The tea party movement is clearly having major impact on the midterm elections – putting a significant number of more conventional Republicans as well as Democrats into a cold sweat as they look over their shoulders at tea party-backed candidates with a real possibility of winning.
