This is an Emergency!

From: Jeff Roys, 3^rd District Coordinator Independence Caucus

To: All TEA Party and Independence Caucus members in the Third District

I apologize for the length of this post but feel this is an emergency situation and a subject that needs to be addressed.

I finally had a chance to go out and work for Tom Norton (73^rd house district) last Saturday and then again this past Monday. Because of my position within I-Caucus I have spent most of my time and effort trying to direct the energy and passion of our members into a potent political force and have asked repeatedly for you to make the decision to become personally involved. Many of you have and many more have taken the “bull by the horns” and have gone out to purposefully seek out those candidates that have been endorsed through our process, even though I have not contacted you personally to do so. I appreciate your initiative and all the hard work you are doing. You are the people that make being a part of this fun and exciting. I am proud to be associated with you.

This post however, is for the rest of you members and leaders that have as of yet not become actively involved.

As I said above I actually got an opportunity to go out and work for our candidate, Tom Norton. Along with my other duties, I am acting as the I-Caucus liaison for Tom’s campaign. I wanted to be actively involved in as many aspects of the I-Caucus opportunities as I can so that I may become a better coordinator and can speak from experience about how the process works. 

Recognizing my own short falls in my position as this districts coordinator, I have to ask the rest of you, where are you?

 I have tried my best to contact each and every one of you personally to offer you opportunities to get involved and yet I have candidates lacking for help? Our two groups together boast a membership of approximately 1,000 people (in the third district) and about 3% are doing 95% of the work.  As we are down to crunch time (less than three weeks to the primary) I need you to find out which Michigan house and senate district you are in, get to the IC website, find our candidates in your area, and get working. If you are still not sure what to do, contact me and I will put you in contact with the IC Area Leaders or directly with the candidates themselves. If nothing else you should be campaigning for Justin Amash who is the IC Endorsed candidate for the federal 3^rd District. This could be as simple as placing yard signs in your neighborhood for our endorsed candidates or making phone calls through our virtual campaign team. Every one of you can help. Here is an example of my experience working for Norton’s campaign on Saturday and the results:

I went door to door in a small section of Cannon Township. I handed out 125 flyers, talked directly with about 40 people at length about the upcoming election and our IC endorsement process. Of those 40 people 5 switched their vote from other candidates to Norton and Amash, stating that no other candidate had bothered to send anyone to give them information. 15 had said that they were looking for some advice as who to vote for but were not well informed. (I suggested they take the literature with them when they voted) The other 20 were already leaning toward Amash, but said that they would consider voting for Tom now that they knew he had gone through our vetting and endorsement process. 3 of those were reminded to get their Absentee Ballots in before they left for vacation (guess who their going to vote for). I even received a commitment from a democrat (who is sick of his own party) to vote for Amash in the general election, when he wins the primary. I did not have one negative experience the entire time.

The bottom line is… The I-Caucus system works!

According to Don Jakel, on the I-Caucus website, there are 20 or more listed activities that a person can do to help our candidates. (Go to: www.icaucus.org)

YOU have the chance to get involved and really affect the outcome of this primary election and then the general election in November. THE PRIMARY IS KEY!  WE NEED TO MOVE NOW NOT WAIT UNTIL THE GENERAL ELECTION! 

 YOU are the next most important person to take an active role with our candidates. YOU can lead others into political action. YOU have the opportunity to educate people about our candidates so they can make an informed vote, simply by following the I-Caucus system.  What excuse do you have not to donate a few hours of your time to this cause? You signed up at one time because you felt the call. You wanted to do something about the situation in Washington and Lansing. How bad will it have to get before you are forced out of your complacency? How bad will it have to get before you will develop the courage to do what is necessary, even if it means moving out of your comfort zone to do it? This may be one of our final opportunities to seek a better more constitutional government. Please don’t sit back another day and watch good people do all of the work and then claim to be a part of it. Join us today, take that first step. You will find out, like I did, what an absolute blessing you can be to the cause of justice and liberty!

 If you need information call me at 616-682-7966 or e-mail me at jlrmaxbiz@comcast.net

I am the liaison for the Justin Amash for congress campaign.  If you want to work for him let me know at teapartyofwmi@charter.net  --  Tina

We have liaisons across the state.  Please let us know who you want to work for within the Independence Caucus group and we will hook you up with their Liaison.

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No 3rd Tea Party Party

You may hear a rumor that there is a group of individuals trying to get petitions signed to get a third party on the ballot in the name of the "Tea Party".   Rumors I've heard are that people backing this are everything from the Michigan Democrat Party to George Soros.  Please know and spread the word that it is not The Tea Party of West Michigan or the Michigan Tea Party Alliance.  Whoever is doing it,  if it's even true, is just trying to confuse the electorate.  It may even be a falsely  planted story and we may actually be helping to spread the falsehood but I think I'd rather take that chance then to have people vote on a Tea Party ticket for statists or Democrats disguised as conservatives.  If you start hearing this story out there please be assured and let whoever is talking to you know that we are not in any way forming a third party for the 2010 election and neither are any of the true Tea Party groups across the state.

Tina Dupont - Tea Party of W.MI