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Get Out Your Tea Bags And Pitchforks for CARB

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PhotobucketThe Tea Baggers are back! And this time, you best not call them Tea Baggers or else Ted Gaines (R-Placer Co.) will get seriously pissed!

Expecting a high turnout, the Joint Legislative Rules Committee sent out an e-mail yesterday alerting Capitol types to the action.

But the e-mail description didn’t exactly capture the plan for the “party” — it swapped “Tea Party” with “Tea Bag,” a term perhaps better suited for a high school locker room than Capitol halls.

The message drew ire from supporters, including Assemblyman Ted Gaines, R-Roseville, who Twitter messaged Capitol Alert: “It’s a Tea PARTY & it’s important!”

Moments later, Gaines, the committee’s vice chair, tweeted that he had asked the Rules staff to send out a corrected e-mail. The committee quickly complied, recalling the first message and sending out an error-free announcement. (CapAlert 8/28/09)

You know, perhaps if they didn’t use tea bags as the visual (see the photo of them stacking up boxes of tea bags in DC) then this wouldn’t be an issue. But I guess loose leaf tea would be too elitist for these people. And yes, it is very important for people who receive government assistance in federal water projects, in farm subsidies, in other federal and state aid, to let the government how much they truly suck. Or in other words:

Don’t let government run my Medicare!

The tea baggers have another target this time: the California Air Resources Board.  The irony is that many of these people are the very same people of the Central Valley that CARB is working to protect through preserving air quality. But nonetheless, they’ve launched an website of paranoia decrying CARB.

However, CARB is essential for the future of not just the Central Valley, but also in creating green jobs and boosting the economy. The folks at this website and at this tea party are telling their supporters to call the governor and tell them how much they hate CARB.  So, if you have a moment contact governor Schwarzenegger or retweet my myidea4ca [tweet:

Protect AB 32 & CARB in order to build green jobs, clean up our air, and fight climate change. #myidea4CA pls RT http://bit.ly/Kq4BN

2 minutes ago from TwitIQ

2 thoughts on “Get Out Your Tea Bags And Pitchforks for CARB”

  1. The Tea Bag rally was a mega-bust. Promoters were talking 10,000-50,000 and maybe 2,500 showed up. Most of their venom was anti-Obama, but it was a collection of hate groups being put in a pot and being allowed to boil.

    As a side note, particulate levels in Sacramento doubled today because of the diesel emissions from the big rigs circling the capitol today.

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