When the Olympics are held, the athletes spend 16 days competing to win their races and take home a medal. Prior to those 16 days, the athletes have spent months and some have spent years in training – both physical and mental. It takes both to succeed as an athlete.…

We are ready to start marketing our event on November 2nd at the Landing.

Please email everyone you know and encourage them to attend. We need volunteers too so call our office and let us know if you can help. The number is (904) 683-3945.

Hard copies of these flyers will be available next week. When we receive them, we will send out a message and ask you and others to deliver them around town, in your neighborhoods and…

A few days ago I wrote about entering the teenage age days until November 2. The “teenagers” were in full force today and in case you missed it, check out this “stomping-of…

I had it all planned out. My email for the day was done in my head and I could not wait to get home to write. Life was good. Another post was done and I was ready to relax for the evening (ha!).

Then it happened. I should never have turned on the tv and left my blog in my head for another day’s posting. The minute I saw the Chilean rescue of the miners from deep within the belly of the earth, I knew my posting was changing. This story was too important to leave by the…

I had it all planned. My email for the day was done in my head and I could not wait to get home to write. Life was good. Another post was done and I was ready to relax for the evening (ha!).

Then it happened. I should never have turned on the tv and left my blog in my head for another day’s posting. The minute I saw the Chilean rescue of the miners from deep within the belly of the earth, I knew my posting was changing. This story was too important to leave by the side.

After…

We told our political servants we would remember what they did by voting for TARP, Bailouts,…

There is so much going on at the First Coast Tea Party. Find out what you want to do and get involved.…

Andrew Jackson’s statue was just moved to a new spot in downtown Jacksonville. His statue sat on a lonely side road near the river for many years and just recently he was moved to a new, costly roundabout. (Debate here about why we spent money like that during times like these but that’s another…

TO: MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS - 10/12/10…

Yesterday Meg Whitman, candidate for Governor of California, received a huge sucker punch from her opponent, Jerry Brown. He called her a dirty name that rhymes with “bore” (like him) and starts with a “w.” You would think the women would rally…

This Tuesday night is the next City Council Meeting. We will not have 200 people show up this week yet we do encourage you to attend as many council meetings as possible.

Get involved and show up wearing your t-shirts -- "Don't Raise My Taxes." Sit as close to the front as possible and remind them that we are still not happy with their votes. You can review the agenda at…

Yesterday I was interviewed by a television crew from Japan. How the heck did that happen? Some days I wonder what happened to life as I knew it since September 2008. The day we bailed out banks turned many Americans’ lives inside…

Don’t you wish you could be a fly on the wall in the bedroom of those who put America into this terrible mess? Wouldn’t it be nice to see them toss and turn and lose sleep over their jobs in DC.

We’ve been tossing and turning over their poor decisions so it’s about time they lost some sleep too.

We are 24 days away from booting these people out of the seats of Congress and we cannot let up the pressure…

We received the following Thank You from Bill Bishop, a member of the City Council. We wanted to share this with you since you are the ones who made the effort to show up and voice your concerns. The next City Council Meeting is NEXT TUESDAY, Oct 12 at 5:00 p.m. Please contact your City Council Member between now and then and ask him/her what is on the agenda and listen intently to…

Last week the First Coast Tea Party had its first Annual Fundraiser. (Notice I said first because we plan to be here a while and have one a year for many years to come!)

Ginni Thomas was our first Fundraising Speaker. She has been a supporter of the Tea Party Movement and has been an encourager of my own citizen activism since I met her in January of this year.

We work with her and her team at Liberty Central every day as we fight together to Restore the…

CLICK HERE FOR THE PDF ABOUT CANDIDATES AND AMENDMENTS ON THE BALLOT.pdf

On October 5, 2010, the First Coast Tea Party held a Ballot Town Hall to discuss the Amendments and Judges appearing on the November 2 ballot in Duval…

National Defense seems to be taking a back seat to the election cycle and we thought it would be good to focus on it today.

We recently hosted an event with Dr. James Carafano of Heritage Institute. Dr. Carafano is one of our nation's greatest National Security experts. He was here to facilitate a discussion about the new educational movie, 33 Minutes.

The basic tenent of the…