Hello Tea Party…

Flier pick up is complete. I will hand the rest of the fliers out at the next meeting which will take place on Wednesday July 1st at 6 pm at the old Highland School, now Office building, on E State St and Rockford Ave which is for GPS locators at 2222 E State Street. Please enter through the east entrance which is the Rockford Ave entrance. It will be our final planning meeting prior to the Tea Party where we wrap up all the ends and all the lose ends. I hope to see you all there. We will have a great chance to talk to vent to plan and to energize.

I talked to Rockford’s own Kurt “Walk the Talk” Kallenbach and thus far his experience has been exciting. He has met some of the most amazing Americans, in fact Americans similar to all of us. They just happen to live in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana. But they are WE. His adventure is leaving an indelible mark on his soul and his heart and I can hear it in his voice. I can’t help but think I don’t want Rockford to be left behind. Kurt started his walk as a desire to make a change and tell people that one man can do with a final goal of reaching the DC Tea Party.

The Tea Party movement although given little press this time around is stocked full of Americans estimated at more than a million across the nation and quite possibly more than two million. Its a national movement and Rockford actually has a voice in it. For to long Rockford has had no voice and Rockford has had to be silent in the shadow of our giant brother 70 miles southeast. Rockford has a voice in a national movement and its about time Rockford had something to say. Our local media has shortsightedly ignored this voice and this movement not because it is not newsworthy but because of their own political entanglements and their own lack of vision.

I am tired of Rockford being left behind in this state and in this nation. We have not been left behind in some ways…we win many competitions. We win the highest property tax rate in the state competition and second highest in the nation competition. We win the highest unemployment rate in the state competition and of course what follows is one of the highest in the nation. 13.9 percent as of today. We win the highest crime rate in the state competition and what follows is if you beat out Chicago in crime statistics you can rest assured you can be counted in the top crime cities of the nation. Our number ones are extraordinary failures.

But I can tell you this, it isn’t for lack of trying to make  difference. If you are tired of Rockford being left behind and leading in all the wrong categories then I encourage you to come to the RockfordTeaParty on July 4th and make your voice heard. We are a new voice. An American movement. We have not been left behind on this one. We are in the thick of it. We have a chance to begin making true changes that will cost us top billing in those areas where we need to lose and begin to place out best feet forward where we need to win.

We don’t want Rockford to be left behind yet again. This is our time. This is our chance to be a part of something truly historic, and though the media won’t admit to it, heck they may not even cover it, we are part of a New Amercian Movement that will ultimately push through the real kind of change that must take place to give America back to us. Back to Rockford.

Thanks and I’ll see you all at the planning meeting on July 1st and at the Tea Party on July 4th.

David Hale
RockfordTeaParty