Update: 6 /13 /2010 3:30 PM
Now it looks like Mufi is having a little fun with our visit as well. Check out this link below.
http://atomicmonkey.wordpress.com/2010/06/13/maui-teas-off-on-abercrombie-tax-lies/
Update: 6/11/2010 8PM
Well now, Neil can say he has seen a real TEA Party Patriot. Twenty two of us to be exact. I must say I have never seen so many wide-eyed people in one place as we walked into his campaign headquarters. We got there just as Neil was finishing his speech. Sorry I missed it. I and several others in the TEA party group went right up front to speak to him. He told me that he really was not for raising taxes. I did one of those taken-aback stances of , oh really. I responded by saying, “I’ll believe you when you cut the budget by the same percentage the economy has dropped over the past two years.” I told him I didn’t want to show up empty handed so I brought him one of our TEA Party bumper stickers for him to put to good use. About that time there must have been a hundred cameras flashing all around us, though there weren’t even that many there. It just seemed like it. Then I joined others in the food line. Even though it was obvious that some of his supporters did not want us there, we were all together in one small room where everyone could see that each one of us there was just another Maui citizen. Many folks in the room had friends on both sides of the varying array of ideologies and political thinking. We accomplished our goal. Now when Neil speaks of the TEA party next he will have a real first-hand experience to draw from in his very own state. I have a feeling we sent a much bigger message to the rest of the folks in that room and the community. The TEA Party is here to stay growing everyday. We are not afraid to step up or step out and be heard and seen.
Brett Glass Hawaii TEA Party President
Neil Abercrombie receiving HTP Bumper sticker from HTP President Brett Glass
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Recently Neil Ambercrombie had a few words to say about the TEA Party Patriots. See his statement below. So we feel it is only fitting to show up tonight at his grand opening event at his campaign headquarters here on Maui in Wailuku and politely let him know we are real.
I think he really believes some of the things he says like some kind of “cynical sociopath” .
When he states ” they don’t know what to do about it” . We do in fact know what to do about it, and have made all of the important “connections”. We know that he will just fold to the progressives that want total power and control at all cost. That he is just a rubber stamp for the Big Government regime in Washington DC, and we have a plan that only starts with our vote in November.
He has it wrong when he compares us to a wave that will dissipate into the sand. This movement is a tsunami that will turn this country back around and smash the hostel take over plans of the radical progressives.
So plan to join us tonight Friday 11th. We will meet just down the street at 59 Kanoa St. Wailuku HI 96793 . Click here for a Map. Come with your Hawaii TEA Party shirts on and TEA Party cards in hand at about 5PM. We will walk up to his place as a group from the address above. Be sure to bring your camera. Be polite but let them know we are here watching and listening . His grand opening starts at 5:30PM at 1980 Main Street in Wailuku.
Neils statement about the TEA Party Movement:
On the subject of distrust of government, what’s your take on the Tea Party movement and what impact do you think it’ll have on this election cycle?
They’ll have some [impact], not as much out here. But you can’t institutionalize a mood. The Tea Party is a reflection of an atmosphere. It has no object, other than to say, ‘We don’t like this.’ It is kind of a choked reaction to the idea that you’ve been shoved totally to the sidelines. You have no control over your life. Particularly when you’re being propagandized all day long that you get to make choices, always variations on the theme of you as consumer of goods. And when politics takes on the same aspect, when you’re just the consumer of whatever’s being fed to you by cynical sociopaths who have no other purpose in life than to manipulate and maneuver you into doing what they want you to do, then you have a situation like the one we have now with the Tea Party. They don’t like it, but they don’t know what to do about it. I ran into somebody recently who asked me if I [supported] the health care plan. I said, ‘Yes, I’m for this healthcare plan.’ ‘Well then I’m against you. The government is coming into our lives. It’s a government plan, I’m against it.’ So I said, ‘Well are you against the Veterans Administration?’ ‘Hell no, we can’t do enough for the veterans!’ ‘Well, that’s totally a government program, [like] Medicare and Social Security. I suppose you don’t want that either.’ Now some people say they don’t. They don’t want it right up until the time they need it. I’m citing that not so much to say they’re hypocrites, because I don’t think they are being hypocritical. They don’t make the connections. [It's] an emotional reaction to being frozen out of participating in life. They feel their tax dollars are not well spent. They feel they’re being tapped and tapped hard and often and deep and they’re not getting out of it what they think they should. But the political consequence is that it dissipates into the ether. It’s like a wave. All waves dissipate into the sand. No matter what kind of kinetic energy is associated with them, they dissipate into the sand.
Looks like Abercrumpie really stuck his foot in his mouth this time.
You’re so right Jeff. Tonight I will be the sand…..in neil’s shorts!!!:)
The height of arrogance to say that a large block of constiuents are “misguided” and “no more important than the waves that wash up on the beach and dissapate into the sand” Yep, thats who I want to elect, someone that thinks Im stupid and unimportant.
Neil Ambercrombie, wake-up!!! Hawaiian have waken-up and “Tea party” is the people of constitution.
THEY ALL TALK LIKE THAT.THE LACK OF RESPECT IS OVER THE LINE
I\’LL BE THERE..I HAVE A GUY FROM BOSTON COMING WITH ME
We have had our fill of delusional legislators enraptured with their self-importance. So many
like Mr. Abercrombie truly believe they know what is best for the sheeple. They are so far left that they have the approval of their own consciences. Such people, seduced by the powers
we have granted them, become more detatched from reality as time goes by….and that’s our message: It is time you go….bye!
Niel Abercrombie is a dinosaur. He is so out of touch and dose not understand the power of the people. These career politicians in Hawaii act like they are royalty. They forget they work for us and we are their boss. I hope and pray that the citizens of this state will wake up and vote all of the incumbents out so we can have real change in this beautiful state of ours. The funny thing about Niel is his ad on the radio where he talks about changing the education system by putting control of the schools into the local communities( local shcool boards). Sounds just like what Lingle proposed. Oh I forgot, shes an evil republican. But now that it’s proposed by a democrat it’s sheer genius. What a joke!
he talked about \"ALOHA\" and his people didnt have any for the Tea party folks..har!
cant wait to vote for \"DUKE\"..
Thanks for the link. Just a quick correction…we are a privately produced blog, not under control (or compensation) from any candidate\\\’s campaign organization. So, calling it a Mufi site is not accurate. That said we have known, and disliked, Abercrombie since the 70\\\’s and would prefer to seem him permanently retired after the Democratic primary.