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VTP Releases New Legislator Fiscal Scorecards

By |2019-05-11T16:12:01-04:00December 10th, 2014|Categories: Blog, CoLA, Featured|Tags: |

The VA Tea Party Patriots Federation opposes any new legislation that further expands government or increases spending until after a full audit of Virginia state government; the elimination of waste, fraud, and abuse; and a substantial reduction in the Commonwealth's dependency on Federal funds. (Currently, Federal funds are 38% of the Virginia budget not including loan guarantees or the proposed expansion of Medicaid) We will continue to oppose any new taxes, fees, tax credits, grants, and bonding authority until waste, [...]

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Registration is LIVE for 2014 Annual Tea Party Action Conference!

By |2018-05-23T00:02:44-04:00October 30th, 2014|Categories: Action Alerts, Blog, Events, Featured|Tags: , |

The annual conference will be held on Friday 11/21 - Saturday 11/22. Please register now to secure your seat at the conference! Details and registration info can be found HERE.

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It’s Time To End The Doc Fix Dance And Move On To Real Reform by Grace-Marie Turner

By |2019-05-11T16:12:02-04:00October 8th, 2014|Categories: Blog, Featured, Healthcare, News|

If Washington is ever going to tackle entitlement reform and get federal spending under control, it must start with Medicare. The former director of the Congressional Budget Office, Doug Holtz-Eakin, details Medicare’s fiscal plight: Between 2001 and 2010, Medicare’s cumulative cash flow deficits totaled more than $1.5 trillion – or 28% of the total federal […]

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Federation Summit Meeting 9-13-2014

By |2018-05-23T00:02:46-04:00September 13th, 2014|Categories: Blog, Featured, Legislative, News|Tags: , , , , , |

We held our quarterly summit meeting today at the Crowne Plaze Hotel in downtown Richmond, with leadership from all across the state coming together to share information and develop strategies. We had an AMAZING turn-out today, with over 100 attendees. Key topics today included "team Building" with Mark Herr from the Center For Self-Governance and a panel discussion on privacy issues with prior attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, ACLU Virginia Director of Public Policy and Communications Frank Knapp, and CoLA Committee [...]

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GOP War on Tea Party Favorites Gaining Momentum

By |2019-05-11T16:12:06-04:00November 17th, 2013|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , |

More on this in the coming weeks, but there’s more-and-more stories coming out now about how the “establishment” GOP is working to “take out” any opposition to its big government plans by tea party/liberty politicians. The latest air raid siren to go off pertains to rep...

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Get Your Tickets for the Tea Party Action Conference 2013!

By |2019-05-11T16:12:06-04:00October 17th, 2013|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , |

Any elected officials you want to replace? Want to become more effective at influencing legislators, policy, and elections? Then, you will want to attend the annual Virginia Tea Party Patriot Federation Conference! This year’s conference is entitled “Changing the Rules of the Game.”...

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Some Perspective on the Debt Ceiling (Video)

By |2019-05-11T16:12:06-04:00October 8th, 2013|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , |

As we begin to hear about how terrible the republicans are due to their concern about the debt ceiling, I thought some perspective may be in order. Of course, both parties use this method to criticize the other, so this isn’t just a democrat problem. However, when using the arguments presented...

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House Passes Continuing Funding Resolution; Defunds Obamacare

By |2019-05-11T16:12:07-04:00September 20th, 2013|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , |

In a welcome change of events this week, the republican House of Representatives presented and passed a continuing resolution (CR) today that funds 100% of government….except Obamacare (Affordable Care Act).  This is after all indications showed that the republicans were unwilling to attempt t...

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