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Tea Parties 
Wed Oct 07, 2009 at 20:30:29 PM EDT
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The anti-government "Tea Party Patriot" movement around Albany, NY, has had some successes in turning out people and getting free media, but not so much lately.
Two recent events, one of which I attended, saw their turnout go from the few thousand of April 15 to mere dozens.
Perhaps as a result, in their local Yahoo group chat room, the mood has darkened somewhat, with much more talk of violence.
One of the guys doing that talking is pictured at left. Spyder could have posted a head shot, or a photo of him on his chopper, or no photo at all, on the Albany 9/12 Meet-up site.
But he chose to put up a photo of him brandishing deadly weapons in each hand and wearing an ammo belt and a Klingon Warrior Academy T-shirt. No other photos of local tea partiers featured weapons, with their implicit threat of violence.
Details about Spyder and more, below.
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Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 13:14:11 PM EDT
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It's pretty obvious that the anti-government "Tea Party Patriot" movement is anti-Obama and all other Democrats.
Its recent event in D.C. was organized by a Republican astroturf group and featured several prominent Republican politicians as speakers. Nary a good word about any Democrat was heard from the stage, or from the crowd.
And the teabaggers have been rudely disrupting town hall meetings held by Democrats, and showing up as a cheering section for town hall meetings held by anti-Obama Republicans.
And yet, the Democratic mayor of Green Island (a small village just north of Albany, NY) will be hosting a Tea Party/wingnut radio event this Saturday.
Dissonant details, below.
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Sun Sep 13, 2009 at 09:43:25 AM EDT
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The anti-government "Tea Party Patriot" movement had its big day in D.C. yesterday, with some tens of thousands convening in front of the Capitol to hear a bunch of Republican propaganda and preen for the cameras.
There have been more than a few diaries about that; this one will look to the future, with a focus on what the teabaggers are up to in upstate New York, near Albany.
The local teabaggers are active and persistent, with two more events planned this month, and another in November that will tie into a national "Tea Party"/Republican effort to win back control of Congress next year.
They are an easily mocked right-fringe micro-minority, more Ron Paul than John McCain, but they are organized, and they do turn out whenever there's a chance of media coverage.
Details, below.
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Fri Sep 11, 2009 at 15:24:19 PM EDT
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The Tea Party Express national anti-Obama bus tour stopped in Albany yesterday, and attracted about 600 Obama-haters to the east steps of the Capitol.
This media/organizing event, extensively promoted on Fox News and talk radio, is bankrolled by the California conservative Republican group Our Country Deserves Better PAC, and features unemployed radio talk show host Mark Williams, "Marine Mom" Deb Johns, "union-thug victim" Ken Gladney, and a handful of D-list entertainers.
A former talk show guy in the market, Williams chose Albany so he could continue Our Country Deserves Better's jihad against Congressman Scott Murphy (NY-20), but Murphy went unmentioned, as the program was mostly about hating on our President and the Democratic Congress.
Details, and more pix, below.
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Tue Jun 16, 2009 at 16:25:14 PM EDT
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Today, there was a March on Albany, organized by local and state Tea Party types to bring thousands of people from all over New York to the steps of the Capitol.
Back on April 15, there were dozens of Tea Parties across the state, and the Albany event was quite successful, attracting a crowd of a couple three thousand.
Today, not so much, more like a couple three hundred.
Details and more photos, below.
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