Tea Party Marching Orders

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Tea Party Parade Marching Orders!Determine if there is a Tea Party Patriot event scheduled for the 4th of July in your area. Check the national Teapartypatriots.org site to determine if a Tea Party Patriot has already organized a group to participate in a parade in your area. If so, contact them and ask to help or to participate in the parade. If not, and if you are interested in organizing one, go on to step 2 below. Don’t be nervous…very few of us had ever organized an event before, and now we have, and we’re here to help you based on our experiences!Organize your own tea party parade march. Get on the web and use Google or any other search engine. Search for “(insert your county name here) 4th July parade.” This should direct you to the sponsor and sign up information for your local parade.Get your permit to participate in the parade. Follow the sponsoring entity’s directions to get your permit on behalf of the (Your County Name Here) Tea Party Patriots. Having the permit under “Tea Party Patriots” allows any other Patriot who inquires to know that a permit is already in place. They can then contact you to aid in planning, or simply to participate.If the sponsoring entity asks you what kind of group you are, either on the phone or by written application, you can let them know you are a “grassroots, non-partisan organization dedicated to fiscal responsibility, lower taxes and limited government.”Either from a phone conversation or from the rules you find on a website, you will want to obtain answers to the following questions:What time is the parade, and what time do you need to be there to get lined up?What is the cost to participate, if any?Are there any restrictions on your activities in the parade?Is there a maximum amount of people you are allowed to have participate in the parade with you?Is there are special parking and preparation area for parade participants?Post your event on the national Tea Party Patriots website. This will automatically link your event to the California site as well. Make sure to post your contact information so that others who might like to volunteer can contact you. You’ll want to use everyone you can to help with planning, promotion and participation in the parade.Plan your Tea Party Patriots parade march. Here are just a few ideas:March in the parade with your homemade protest signs. Be creative, catchy and avoid being offensive. Remember, we are a family organization. Please stay away from social issues. It’s important that we retain our focus on what unites us, not what the politicians have used to divide us.Many 4th of July events around the country are focusing on the issue of opposition to the government takeover of the health care system. Like almost everything we suggest this is purely optional. However, this is one of the most important fiscal issues of our time. We simply cannot afford to have the government involved in our health care system.We suggest that you get as many participants as possible wearing the official Tea Party Patriots tee-shirt, designed specifically for the Fourth of July festivities. It’s a bright red, and will allow us to stand out and show what a unified force we are.Enter the parade with classic cars, military vehicles, and floats decorated for the Fourth of July or with Tea Party Patriots slogans (i.e. Silent Majority No More).Find volunteers with Horse and Carriage or Equestrian teams and decorate them with Tea Party Patriots signs and slogans.Be creative! This is a grassroots movement, and the real genius comes from you. Share your ideas with the rest of us so we can all improve our plans.Promote your Tea Party Patriot event. Send out a press release to local newspapers, radio, and television one week before the parade and then again on the Wednesday before the event. You can download a sample press release here. (Press release coming soon). Also, make sure you send an email to everyone you know. You can use the press release, or just send a nice friendly email asking all your friends and colleagues to join you on the 4th!Think Big. The goal is to let our neighbors, our government officials, and our communities know that the Tea Party Patriots are everywhere. It’s not hard to make a big impact in a parade. Think about the parades you’ve seen. The largest groups you see marching in a parade are usually the marching bands. A very large marching band is 250 people. Imagine the impact if you have 500 people with you. What if 1,000 show up to join you? Even in many small communities across the nation we’ve had tea parties in excess of 500 people. This is a chance for us to show the tax and spend politicians that we are everywhere, in every community across this great nation, and that we are organized and on the move.Let’s work together and make the Tea Party Patriots the largest group of parade participants in every local 4th of July parade across the nation. We can’t do it without you! So get signed up to help out today. Don’t just sit on the sidelines…come join us and help change the country!

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This is from TeaPartyPatriots.org

I just came accross this. It may be too late to do anything about it this year. Since OKC is not having a tea party, several of us could possibly march in a parade, like Libertyfest, with our tea party signs.