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Speakers Stress Fiscal Responsibility at Tea Party Convention
The group fires up the smaller-than-expected crowd at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center.
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Tea Party members gathered for a convention on Sunday.
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Fitting with the fiscally focused ideals of its national counterparts, the South Bay Tea Party held its convention at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center on Sunday, securing a deal on the venue's rental rate.
Nathan Mintz, a South Bay resident running for California Assembly in the 53rd District, was a main speaker at the event.
Mintz, who founded the South Bay Tea Party in April 2009, offered a disclaimer to this reporter during intermission that he did not endorse everything that was said at the event. He mentioned in particular some of the religious views expressed by other speakers.
The crowd appeared most charmed by Star Parker, a candidate for the 37th District House of Representatives seat. Her speech detailed her unlikely success story, which, according to Parker, included a transition from welfare-collector to politically active person. She eventually founded—and now presides over—the D.C.-based think tank Center for Urban Renewal and Education.
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Sean Lewis
12:31 pm on Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Unreal, yet another article on the Tea Party. It looks like Patch is to the Tea Party what Fox News is to right-wing politics. How many articles about a small, fringe group do you have to publish? This meets no standards of fair and balanced journalism whatsoever.
I also think it is intellectually disingenuous to interview an African-American woman prominently at the beginning of your video as to suggest there is any significant support whatsoever in the African-American community for the economic policies and patently racist ideology that are the hallmarks of the Tea Party. Selective editing and positioning mean something in journalism and this is amateur hour.