Showing posts with label Tea Party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tea Party. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

U.S. Park Police told man to stop mowing the lawn during government shutdown

To Help During Shutdown, Man Mows Lawn Around Lincoln Memorial photo shutdown-man-mows-lawn-lincoln-memorial-washington-monuments-ap706538594125_custom-9f87a5080194b7a65eaf9dbf73b5c558741ed212-_zpse622b900.jpg

Chris Cox of Mount Pleasant, S.C., pushes a cart near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, on Wednesday. He was mowing the lawn around the Lincoln Memorial when U.S. Park Police told him to stop offering to help the government during the Tea Party shutdown.

See the NPR report : To Help During Shutdown, Man Mows Lawn Around Lincoln Memorial.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Occupy Activists Brilliantly Infiltrated Koch Brothers Anti-Occupy Rally

From The Guardian :

A conservative rally billed as an opportunity to "stand up to Occupy Wall Street extremists" fell flat on Thursday when it was co-opted by members of Occupy Wall Street.

Supporters of Americans for Prosperity, a Tea Party-esque group funded by the billionaire Koch brothers, gathered at the Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan to demonstrate against both Occupy Wall Street and President Obama.

But almost half of the sparse crowd were Occupy Wall Street protesters, smartly dressed and bearing signs parodying Americans for Prosperity's ultra-conservative message.

Read more : Occupy activists commandeer anti-Occupy Wall Street rally