{"id":6695,"date":"2010-08-21T14:51:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T18:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6695"},"modified":"2010-08-21T14:51:36","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T18:51:36","slug":"florida-tea-party-needs-to-go-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6695\/florida-tea-party-needs-to-go-local\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Tea Party Needs to Go Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As discussed in this week\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6684\/this-weeks-liberty-update-38\/\" target=\"_blank\">Liberty Update<\/a>, the next great wave of <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/715-pasadena-patriots-show-republicans-how-to-lead-follow-or-get-out-of-the-way\" target=\"_blank\">Tea Party enthusiasm needs to wash over local political offices<\/a> as soon as this year\u2019s federal midterm elections conclude.\u00a0 A column in the St. Petersburg Times notes that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/opinion\/columns\/bto-ensure-a-future-tea-party-shouldnt-ignore-local-issuesbpp\/1116656\" target=\"_blank\">several of Florida\u2019s highest profile Tea Party candidates<\/a> are mounting what looks to be losing campaigns in the run-up to next Tuesday\u2019s statewide primary elections.<\/p>\n<p>The reason is simple: it\u2019s just too hard to compete for votes and money when running against candidates from the two established parties.\u00a0 Far better, the columnist suggests, to turn the Tea Party\u2019s attention to city and county races where much of the real world of governing takes place.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Alexander and the Pasadena (CA) Patriots couldn\u2019t agree more.\u00a0 Like Mike\u2019s wife Patricia likes to say, \u201cStarting at 6 a.m. on November 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, we are going to focus on all the municipal elections here in Los Angeles County: county supervisor, city council, school board, you name it.\u201d\u00a0 Tea Party enthusiasts would do well to check out Alexander\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/pasadenapatriots.ning.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TEA PAC<\/a> organization for ideas on how to turn activist energy into winning elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As discussed in this week\u2019s Liberty Update, the next great wave of Tea Party enthusiasm needs to wash over local political offices as soon as this year\u2019s federal midterm elections conclude.\u00a0 A column in the St. Petersburg Times notes that several of Florida\u2019s highest profile Tea Party candidates are mounting what looks to be losing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[782,354,1200,1745,1743,1744,28],"class_list":["post-6695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2010-midterm-elections","tag-florida","tag-los-angeles","tag-mike-alexander","tag-pasadena-patriots","tag-tea-pac","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6697,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695\/revisions\/6697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}