Rivoli Revue, scheduled to sing at tea party
Wichita’s Tea Party IV will be a much more national affair than the first three, according to organizers who have now released the speaking and music lineup.
Instead of the local political figures who have addressed the conservative gatherings in the past, the event scheduled Wednesday at the Lawrence-Dumont Stadium parking lot will feature leaders of national political action committees and a man who claims to have been beaten outside a town hall meeting in Missouri for his opposition to national health care.
The event will center around a visit by the “Tea Party Express II,” a bus tour titled “Countdown to Judgment Day.”
The tour started in San Diego and is proceeding north to Washington state, before cutting a roughly diagonal path across the country and ending up in Orlando, Fla.
The tone will be much different than the last tea party at Sedgwick County Park, which featured food booths, vendors and inflatables for children to jump on, said Lynda Tyler of Kansans for Liberty, which is organizing the event with the 9-12 Group, the Wichita branch of an organization started by Fox News commentator Glenn Beck.
“They (Tea Party Express II) have a two-hour presentation; we get 10 minutes out of the two hours,” Tyler said.
The groups are being allowed to use the city-owned lot free of charge because of the political nature of the event, but would have had to pay if they brought in vendors or rented out booths, Tyler said.
She said it’s not exactly optimum timing for tea partying. “It’s November, it’s outside and it’s at one o’clock on a Wednesday,” she said. “Hopefully, we’ll have a decent turnout.”
The lineup of speakers starts with Lew Uhler, chairman of the National Tax Limitation PAC.
He’ll be followed by Deborah Johns and Mark Williams, vice chairpersons of the Our Country Deserves Better PAC; and blogger and tea-party coordinator Amy Kremer.
One controversial speaker is Kenneth Gladney, who alleges he was the victim in a video-recorded scuffle that took place Aug. 6 outside a town-hall meeting in St. Louis held by Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-Mo.
Gladney claims that he was beaten by members of the Service Employees International Union as he tried to pass out “Don’t tread on me” flags; the union saysit was their minister, the Rev. Elston McCowan, who was pushed to the ground in the flap, and that Gladney faked being injured for the publicity it brought his cause.
The video, grainy and poorly lit, does show a scuffle but is inconclusive as to what exactly happened at the scene.
Three musical performances are scheduled as part of Wednesday’s event: Lloyd Marcus performing the “American Tea Party Anthem;” Linda Nagy performing “Where Freedom Lies;” and the husband and wife duo Rivoli Revue performing “A Bailout Song.”
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It’s not going to be a party without Bob. Weeks I mean.
Is Gladney going to beg for money, I’m sorry…ask for donations…to cover his “medical expenses” from the inconclusive mob attack because he has no health insurance? Ironic. So now that the opening acts have been announced, what kind of rides are going to be at this circus?
This is hilarious, a group started by that whiny beotch Glenn Beck? Gimme a break! What a bunch of losers! Bring on the Klan hoods!
Look closely. Those 3-point hats are made out of tinfoil.
Is there going to be a diaper again?
“It’s November, it’s outside and it’s at one o’clock on a Wednesday,” she said. “Hopefully, we’ll have a decent turnout
Yeah these Wonderful National acts have the events when most people are at work. I can bet the average age of people attending will be about 70. Nice work.
We, too, shall overcome!
I hope it’s blowing & snowing for their little shin-dig.
This LaRouche and John Birch society PIC-A-PAC wouldn’t want to explain their acceptance over the last 8 years of $6.5 Trillion in deficit spending, would they? I’m sure as prolifers, they wouldn’t want to explain their acceptance of the high mortality rates of births in the US as part of their agenda, would they? What a waste, but than typical of the radical right.
Dems can’t even get a purple mohawk party going.
2010 is going to be a wipeout.
A person cannot help but notice how the Marxist (Democrats) are always bashing those utilizing their Constitutional Rights. Typical of those wanting so badly to destroy the country and eliminate the Constitution.
The tea party movement is funded by FreedomWorks led by Lobbyist Dick Armey former Republican senate majority leader who has been on “government run health care” since he was a college professor. And Americans For Prosperity led by Lobbyist Tim Phillips who is a highly paid Republican operative funded by David Koch who has made billions in the oil and gas industry. This is a despicable manipulation of the misinformed Fox News audience.
We’re not bashing. We’re laughing. And it’s got nothing to due with Constitutional Rights or the supression of such. It’s about people bringing assault rifles to public events, Medicare recipients complaining about government run health care, Texans threatening to secede, grandma that thinks President Obama is an Arab, and the Joe The Plumber. Hilarious!
too funny. you dumbocrat trash just crack me up. you pathetic bunch of low lifes. you dumbocrats are all stuck on stupid
Great post jlake. I love the old lady that said the government needs to keep its hands off her medicare. lmao!
Skippy1010 – so what? The left is funded by Soros. Didn’t see you complaining about that. HYpocrite.
jlake, wondering what pre conceived notions you have about black people? Biggot.
me smells some liberal elistist pig on the page.
Samacdon – If your talking about my Gladney post its documented and on the record that he has no health insurance and at past rallies he was accepting donations for his cause….medical expenses from his supposed assuault. For the record this “biggot” voted for Obama proudly.
Just as always you jumped to a wrong conclusion. Something you do often.
And yes, you are an elitist political biggot. Something I am sure you are proud of.
jlake, I seem to remember you talking about Bush taking away rights while he was President, but you somehow believe the politicians have changed since BO became president. I know, they are doing this for the “common good”.
Every law that is passed in Congress takes away a little piece of your liberty. But you don’t care as long as it is being done by a democratic Congress and a democratic President.
Now taking bets on the following:
Over/Under
Median Attendee Age: 68 % of attendees with Gov’t Healthcare: 57%
of non-Caucasians: 3
of misspelled protest signs: 19
of college graduates: 3
of people who’ve actually read the U.S. Constitution: 8
Most Common Skin Color: White – 3:2 Alabaster – 8:1 Ivory – 2:1 Cream – 5:1 Pearl – 6:1
Most Common Complaint: Obama is a Nazi – 10:1 Obama is a Communist – 4:1 Obama is the Anti-Christ – 6:1 Obama is a Communist, Nazi, baby-eating, Anti-Christ – 3:2 They took our Jorbs! – 20:1 Bring back arrested development! – 100:1
This is great—these liberals that are whinning now, are just proving why we need to get America back….
I’ll be selling rotting fruits and vegetables as well as past-expiration date dairy products from the back of my truck in the NW corner of the parking lot in case anyone might be interested in purchasing such items to enhance their own First Amendment right to free speech to counter these right-wing wackaloons.
In the spirit of the event, I’ll be selling these items without a government issued permit and will not be reporting the proceeds from said sales to the Kansas Department of Revenue nor the Internal Revenue Service.
Freeeeeeeeedommmmmmmm!
Get America back to the edge of another Greta Depression by more unwise Republican policy decisions?
Update: The Washington Independent spoke to Gladney’s attorney, who said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch article is mistaken. Gladney did lose his job, the attorney said, but now has health insurance through his wife.
It’s unclear, at this point, a) why Gladney initially told reporters he has no insurance; and b) why he would need to solicit contributions from far-right activists to pay his medical bills if he already has coverage.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_08/019423.php
I hope the teabaggers shave this time.
DavidB – Do you really want the government to try and control the economy? YOu have to be kidding. it is impossible. Just ask Fidel.
dear Maggotpunk – your name says it all.
This will be better than Jerry Springer. I heard they are going to auction off a picture of Bush’s chainsaw.
And these libs are the “sensitive” ones. I am old, but I will live long enough to see the day the SOB community boy is in chains where he belongs. The initial Jeffersonian cadre is coming together.
Government has always strived to influence the direction of the economy. The question is whether you influence it to improve the corporations over the interests of the population.
For instance, is government to fight for insurance companies, or fight for people lacking affordable health care that won’t let you go broke because you get a bad break.
Here’s the first speaker scheduled to appear:
http://www.coffeesee.com/flickr/album/72157622048773567/photo/3866946076/sacramento-tea-party-82809-lew-uhler-speaks-at-tea-party.html
grrrrrrrr
Don’t you think it’s funny that the husband and wife duo Rivoli Revue also performs the song O Canada???? Don’t you think these tea party fools should have maybe checked out their karaoke singers prior to booking them on their roadshow???
Sorry will miss this event.
So the leader of the event will be someone beaten because he handed out flags. You fools would watch anyone.
Only requirement Hate Obama.
I thought after George W. Bush left office at least no party would ever elect someone so Dumb and Lazy. Well my Repulican friends I believe you found me wrong if Gov Palin is elected.
jlake – I like how ill-informed persons call any semi-automatic rifle (The kind the guy near the Obama event had) an assault rifle. By those standards a Ruger 10/22 is an assault rifle. Really, an assault rifle is one that has the ability to be fully automatic or semi automatic. The gun at the event, which was in public, no law can tell him he can’t have the gun there because the President is near. CNN even said it was a semi-automatic. But, they also called it an assault rifle, the liberal media is amazing.
DavidB – Actually, if anybody had any part in the recession it was the Democrats. With all of their ‘green’ crap, and regulations.
Value – who are you calling radical?
Liberals call themselves intellectual, but I think liberals are weak minded. Anybody that thinks a larger government means more freedom has to be weak minded.
“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have; the course of history shows that as government grows liberty decreases. ” — Thomas Jefferson
Green crap caused the recession? That’s a new one.
http://lnk.ms/3hrDn
The circus is coming to town. All clowns this time around.
my lord I love this stuff, bring me your hate mongers, your racist, your fascist, your religious zealots that cry kill them all to god, bring me your wacko’s, your lunatics, your psycho’s, bring me your paranoid schizophrenics, bring me your mentally ill, your deranged thinkers and those who have little brains and no common sense .. that my friends is what the tea party is .. just a gathering of radical extremest from the republican party followers seeking their cult leaders.
The green regulations that have been imposed on the auto industry. I.E. Fuel Mileage.
Also they require certain energy standards when building a house.
Not to mention they law has required a new type of diesel for all post 2007 models that run diesel.
All of that increases prices.
And, not to mention that all of this is done in the name of an off the wall theory created by a former Vice President that didn’t even matter enough to be elected President. Him, and the French.
so whats your plan than thatCONSERVATIVEguy? Just let the environment go down hill until we cant go outside without a respirator?
The Green regulations that you quote are NECESSARY for this country and world to move forward. The Foreign car companies (The Big 3, Honda, Toyota, Nissan) were then and still are light years ahead of the Detroit 3.
Your energy standards u discuss when building a house is even more funny since if you dont build houses more energy efficient, you will pay 10 times more in energy over the lifetime of that house than the initial investment.
Westar is installing new Thermostats in houses to help conserve power. This will help keep energy prices low.
So again Conservativeguy, whats your plan? Dont forget all of the businesses that all of these regulations have helped start. Thats called capitolism, “find a need, fill a need”…
newsletter – Capitalism isn’t the government passing laws that regulate industries. Those thermostats you talk about aren’t called ’smart meters’ are they? I like how you talk about Capitalism when the government and Westar are working together. To even increase prices so they can turn a profit (after all that’s why they are there), they have to get approval. And now they have to have equal rates, Socialism is fun. The government regulates the company, the company would then regulate your power usage, thus the government regulates you. Sounds familiar, 1984.
And, those CFLs are hilarious, they are ugly, cost more to produce, waste more energy during production, and take more time to produce then incandescent bulbs. They also contain mercury (great for the environment). The light sucks and the government is now telling us we have to use them. After 2012 incandescent bulbs will no longer be sold. The government didn’t outlaw candles when Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, the light bulb worked, that’s why people bought it. That is Capitalism. What you are talking about is socialism.
And, there are no links between humans and the environment. Even if there is, the stuff that is being enacted would take 50 + years to even make a difference.
Your trusted government is the same government that initially told car companies to not install safety belts.