I think we have a great turnover of candidates and incumbents.
If you didn't have money taken out of your pay every week, and a week before the election you had to write one check to the IRS for the total amount, maybe you would vote for somebody a little different.
Yes.
I think one of the answers to this gentleman's question about how you can make change and guarantee change, other than voting incumbents out of office, is set term limits.
Because with term limits, you're not going to have the incumbents making deals with unions and other entities.
That's true.
The argument-- That's very good.
But the problem with that is, in order to get term limits, you have to get them to vote to put it on the ballot as a consequence.
Well, that's what he's saying about guarantees.
If you change the people that are in there, those people are going to be taking the term limits.
Right, but then that's kind of like a catch-22.
If you get the people you want in there who are going to vote for lower taxes and everything else, do you want to term limit them?
We have term limits.
It's called the ballot box.
We just have to get out and vote against these people.
The unions are motivated to do it.
We have to get motivated to do it.
One thing that you said, the unions pump in a lot of money into campaigns.
Like you said earlier, it's an auction.
So money determines an election.
So you can get out the vote, but if you don't get enough people out to get the vote, that's why if you have a term limit, those people don't have a chance to raise the money to continue their quest.
Well, Scott Brown in Massachusetts gives me a little bit of optimism.
I mean, nobody ever even heard of Scott Brown two months before the election.
And just throws it around as well as a board.
It's the majority.
Government just doesn't listen to the majority.
The majority's not silent.
Government's deaf.
So basically you just have to get everybody involved.
Get everybody you know to the polls.
Talk about everything.
Talk politics at work.
Even if people don't like it.
If you talk to them long enough, maybe they'll convince you.
I disagree.
I don't think they're all truly motivated by that.
go in with the idea of doing the right things.
But then when they get hooked up with unions and the money starts coming in, that's when the spectrum changes.
I disagree.
I don't think they're all purely motivated by that.
I mean, in Rhode Island, lawyers rank for the General Assembly because that was their ticket to get appointed to a judgeship.
I mean, people who went to it, they're not the pure motives if you're to get lower taxes and lower spending.
We need to move the meeting along.
I want to thank Dave very much for this tremendous...
I hope that whoever here is from Smithfield remembers this in November because we need people like this guy here and there to do what's right because obviously no one else is there's a very small, small minority of people in the state government who is proposing this type of scenario which will benefit everybody.
So remember Dave Bebo in November.
Towards that, he said very important things and that is that we need people to A, run for office and B, get up the vote for the right people that we want in office.
And it goes back to what I said earlier.
We need people to A, start more groups, spread out more groups around Rhode Island in more districts and then be willing to get off the couch and burn some calories.
Hand out flyers at your stop and shop.
Talk about the topics at work and in the bars and in general.
And also, go to your town meeting.
Two here has gone to a town budget meeting within the last 10 years.
Okay, so maybe a quarter.
I think that each village, each town should have a group of you guys Who makes sure that somebody or several of you go to every important meeting.
I mean, I don't know what my schedule is for Pawtucket, and I'm sure many of you don't know what your schedules are, but we should make it a project.
If everyone knew, and some people went and talked about it and made yourselves known, they wouldn't do the things that they do when they know you're sitting at home watching TV.
So, in order to start Tea Party Groups, it takes nothing more than Getting a meeting room, handing out some flyers to make sure people show up to your group, and then picking some goals and working towards those goals.
And also, it's important that we don't split the vote.
He made the point that if it's a three-way vote, let's pretend you've got a Libertarian, a Republican, and a Democrat.
Guess what's going to happen?
The Democrat's going to get back in, and he's going to be well-funded by the unions who are already supporting him.
They've got thousands of guys.
They're a minority in Rhode Island, but they're a majority of the people who actually fund these elections.
And so anyway, so what towns do we have here?
Who want to hear from Cumberland?
How many people here from Smithfield?
What about Lincoln?
What about Woonsocket?
Alright, well we need to start a group in each one of these towns.
We're going to start a group in Woonsocket.
We're going to start a group in Lincoln.
We already got it.
We're going here in Cumberland.
And we also have kind of a regional group we call the Blackstone Valley Tea Party.
Which everyone in Central Falls too.
Strong in Central Falls.
I live in Central Falls.
How about Pataket?
Anyone from Pataket?
I want North Providence.
Yes, we want to start a movement in North Providence, Central Falls, We want to start a group in every town.
Especially the dense towns, because that's where the most votes come from.
You look at those district maps I showed you?
Providence is just a solid gray mass, because there's 20 districts in Providence alone, and they're too small to show on that little map.
But Pawtucket's important, CF is important, Woonsocket, as well as Lincoln, Carmel, and Smithfield.
Don't wait for anybody.
If you guys want help starting a group, go on to RITParty.com and email them and say you want to start a group.
Or email us, we've all got your emails, hopefully sign up if you don't.
And email us and say, I want to start a group, how do I do it?
I have a starter kit that I wrote to show you how to start a tea party group.
And we'll show up, we'll put out an APB for everyone here to go to the Lincoln meeting, the Woonsocket meeting, the CF meeting, and get it off the ground, and then do it again and again and again in each village.
We only have six months in November.
Six months to get up and get it done.
And we need you to do it.
I mean, I'm not getting paid for this.
I'm going to go home, I'm going to have some pizza, watch TV, and I'm going to get back my email, and I'm going to be working on this all night.
And it's what I do every damn night.
It's ridiculous.
I mean, I've got other things I'd rather do, but I've caught up with this now, and I've got six months to get it done.
And I need you to do that, too.
We all need you.
You need you.
you to get involved and get this done and to start groups to go to your town meetings and to vote them out or vote in or run for office even more importantly yes should we not we haven't talked about shouldn't we say jobs emphasize what's missing jobs in maryland right
and we have the the cost of the power sure absolutely the the The Tea Party platform is basically what's most fundamental to our quality of life, which is taxes, having a balanced budget, getting the government out of our pockets and out of our ears and our eyes and everything else that we want to get into.
You know, that's really what's...
The two scary aspects of Obamacare is, number one, the financial side of it.
They want to raise taxes on everything to pay for it.
But B, the control.
They're going to have their hands in your lives everywhere you turn in order to get this done.
And so, and yeah, so...
And that's why we don't talk about social topics, you know.
We don't talk about gay marriage and abortion and all that, because we want to get all the people in who are otherwise concerned with taxes and budgetary concerns that impact our personal, individual selves.
And, um, some news about Rhode Island Tea Party.
We're coming up with a new website.
We have a lot more information on it.
And there's a lot of support information on there.
Like I said, there's a starter kit on there to help people start tea party groups.
We're also starting a political action committee in order to help finance races such as Dave's.
Unfortunately, the rules for Rhode Island PAC only lets us donate, I think it's $1,000 per candidate, $25,000 per year from the PAC, but some things that we're doing also we can finance and advertise.
Once again, though, the money doesn't just come out of the grounds.