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Cincinnati's version of the Boston Tea Party
Cincinnati's version of the Boston Tea Party
Posted by HowardWilkinson at 3/4/2009 10:34 AM EST on Cincinnati.com
A group calling itself Cincinnati Tea Party is holding a rally to protest the economic stimulus package and the foreclosure bailout on Fountain Square Sunday, March 15.
The group, which calls itself a "grassroots citizens movement in favor of fiscal responsibility, free markets, snfd limited government" is advertising its event on the website of COAST (Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes) and on its own website, http://www.cincinnatiteaparty.org.
The organizers are taking their inspiration from the Boston Tea Party of 1773, when the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in Boston Harbor in the dead of night and dumped great loads of British tea into the water, as a protest against British taxes on tea. On the Cincinnati Tea Party website, organizers are asking rally-goers to bring three things - "signs, tea bags and more people." The tea bags, they say, will be dumped into barrels to re-enact the 1773 protest.
The rally begins on Fountain Square at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 15 and the main speaker will be former Republican congressman Steve Chabot, who was voted out of office in last fall's Democratic landslide. Chabot has already said he will run in 2010 against Steve Driehaus, the Price Hill Democrat who bounced him out of office last fall and who voted for the economic stimulus package last month.
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