GREAT NEWS: Marion Tea Party secures Joe the Plumber as a speaker!!!
Sam "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbach
MARION—The Marion Tea Party group just learned today that their efforts to bring Samuel Joseph “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher to the October 2 Tea Party have been successful!
Wurzelbacher will be the key speaker at the event, which will be held at the beautiful Marion Civic Center.
Tickets for the event are only $10, and are available through Marion Tea Party organizer Pam Ward or, in Harrisburg, at Stanley’s BBQ. There are a limited number of tickets, so hurry and secure yours, because they are going to go fast.
Wurzelbacher gained fame during Barack Obama’s presidential campaign when he questioned the candidate about his proposed small business tax policies. Because Wurzelbacher worked for a plumbing contractor, the John McCain/Sarah Palin camp dubbed him “Joe the Plumber” and the moniker has tenaciously stuck.
Since that time Wurzelbacher has become a public speaker and has published a well-received book about the experience that brought him into the national spotlight. He is absolutely a celebrity to the citizens who believe in limited government, personal liberties, lower taxes, and that our representatives need to be accountable to the people, not the people accountable to THEM. Wurzelbacher represents everything the Tea Party has come to embody: it is not a “party” in the sense of a political party, but crosses all ‘party’ lines, as a movement, to bring peoples’ attention back to the reality that we are losing our country and if we don’t take action, it won’t be long until all the socialist agendas the current administration has proposed will be firmly entrenched, changing America forever.
So be sure to get your Tea Party tickets from John or Pam, and we’ll see you there, as Ang, along with regular speakers Larry Morse, Larry Pearson and Jack Quarant, are all on the list to speak that evening as well!
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Ang is so excited about this she made a double batch of raisin oatmeal cookie dough!!
Yay for the party and yah for the cookies !
@eileen. That cookie dough sure does look inviting, doesn’t it? Tell us, Admin, does Ang drop them by the rounded tablespoon to bake…when she bakes them…for a larger cookie? I know you like it raw though.
Hi everybody…yes, she drops them by teaspoonsful. The recipe shown is the kind where the dough spreads out on the cookie sheet quite a bit, so they end up being these crisp oatmeal cookies with chewy raisins. For a thicker recipe she uses a different kind of flour or something (I don’t personally know, but she explains it to me like I should; she does this thing I call “cooking by ear” wherein there is no written recipe, she just throws things together, it’s like how she plays piano, no sheet music necessary, she just hears a song then goes). The thicker thing can be made into big fat cookies or cookie bars. Those are particularly good with nuts AND chocolate (or any other flavor) chips.
And band practice is on…it’s just that everyone has to follow me around as I mow….
HHANNAH, it looks delicious but I don’t think the @dmin has to keep rubbing our noses in it
…well, second thought , if he did rub our noses in it then we could just lick it off! 
PS…@dmin’s gonna have trouble at band practice today with cookie dough all over his fingers.
I gotta tell you….Im ok with the Tea Party but I think it hurts the credibility of the group to get excited over “Joe the Plumber”. This is not a triumph if you are wanting to keep people engaged.
Why? Sam Wurzelbacher speaks for the regular American citizen, not the elites. We are not trying to re-establish or re-energize the GOP or sway the Dems; we’re not trying to establish a third party; we’re only trying to wake up the average citizen and make them aware of the power they hold in their own hands.
This IS a very big deal, and it will prove to be so Oct. 2. We have also made inquiries of Rand Paul and have yet to hear back from him, but who knows? Are you going to disparage us if he comes along too?
It’s not going to do any good to try to undermine any aspect of what the Tea Party is accomplishing, and you’re certainly not going to make any headway here, so my advice is don’t even try. Take it to reddit or someplace that appreciates knocking a conservative viewpoint.
Wurzelbacher has been a public fool for sometime now. He apparently doesn’t know the joke’s on him. He’s a deadbeat.
I see all the idiots from reddit (and that ilk) are arriving.
Thanks for the clicks.
sorry admin….you didnt read my post correctly or at least in the intent in which it was sent. I am a conservative, probably not Tea Party hard core, but certainly WAY more right than left. My point is this guy has done nothing worth noting or even listening to. Why on earth would anyone take time out of their day or evening to listen to this guy. I can hear the same stuff at McDonalds from people with a lot more experience (the early morning coffee crowd). Rand Paul would be good though. Getting exited over “Joe the Plumber” just helps those on the left make their point. He was in the right place at the right time. No different than any other “average citizen” being pimped for political gain.
by the way, never been reddit in my life….but thanks for assuming im an idiot…..
I’m not assuming you’re an idiot. But I dislike the mentality of the “right place/right time” thing. Hell, we’re ALL that if you want to look at it that way. We all have an opinion and if we were to have the opportunity, we’d speak it. If given the opportunity to have such a broad public forum, a conservative shouldn’t think twice about it. We’re all stifled by PC developed by the weenies in the Clinton era and perpetuated on a grand scale by Obamanuts. It’s sad that there’s such an extreme on the left that it makes Tea Party, by comparison, “hard core.” We’re not that, either. We’re just average…finding a voice…and learning what we can do with it.
Dont disagree with what you are saying, just cant get excited about “Joe the Plumber”. Correct me if Im wrong here, but at the time of the McCain issue he was misleading and wasnt even a small business owner as he initially claimed. I just dont think the guy has done anything that stands out. Im not blaming him for making his 15 minutes of fame last as long as possible, Id probably do the same. If he is the “main event”…..hmmm…..not sure Id show up for that one. But, Im just one opinion. Im sure there will be many people who show up for support.
Well…I’m sorry you feel that way. You’re right about McLame (who is an utter, abject idiot) exploiting him. But good for Sam to exploit himself, and set the record straight in the process. He’s not a deadbeat. He’s an average guy who’s been given an opportunity.
@dmin… I’m near to 60 yrs. old and have never even registered to vote, much less voted. My son calls me a “bleeding heart Liberal” and he doesn’t say it like it’s a nice thing
. I wouldn’t know a Democrat from a Republican and certainly have no idea what a TEA PARTY is. I didn’t care about politics when younger and now I’ve formed the conclusion that it really doesn’t matter much who’s in office. If they are honest and altruistic they won’t stay that way long. The one thing I am sure of is that the Gubment has their nose & hand in too many things that are not their business and they should remember it’s the PEOPLE that they work for. So, that’s the extent of my knowledge of politics. BUT if there is ever a LIT PARTY, please send me an invitation?
Sure!
I can only imagine Ang speaking at a LIT Party…LOL>>>>>
what’s the ten bucks for?
are the speakers paid? if there is a profit, who gets it?
Wurzelbach has a nominal speaking fee, and travel expenses. The rest will go to the rental of the Civic Center. I don’t believe there will be a profit; for the most part, Tea Parties go on donation only. There’s usually some kind of expense involved in setting one up, in some form or another…depends on the venue.
As far as the rest of the speakers, I’ve never known anyone to get paid. They just do it to promote the Tea Party.
admin…..what sthe selling point on coming watch this guy speak? Maybe Im missing a good message. Just wanna know what his agenda will be.
If I’m not mistaken, the theme of this particular Tea Party event is “Liberalism creeping into our society” and how we need to educate ourselves a month prior to the election if we haven’t already, and make sure we know where the candidates stand on core American values that once made the country so great, and are being undermined now by the socialist agenda of the current administration.
I don’t know specifically what Wurzelbacher will be speaking on…I do know that Ang’s presentation will be about the Liberal slant in media and how it’s negatively impacting the public, and their perception of media as a whole. She and Pam Ward discussed how “if you think it’s not in your backyard, you’re mistaken.” That’s as it relates specifically to her presentation, however. Beyond that, I’m not sure, we might find out more as it gets closer.
First of all, the cookie dough looks delicious. But make no mistake, getting excited about Joe the Plumber is a bad call. Wurzelbacher is a Frankenstein created by the likes Karl “Turd Blossom” Rove from the Neo-Conservative wing of the Republican Party. A nasty group of Corporatist thugs that has insidiously hijacked the Tea Party movement in order to put some kind of fresh, respectable facade on the same old dirty business. This is a sick joke. There’s probably a reason Rand Paul isn’t returning phone calls about this event. I wouldn’t be caught on stage with that bald-headed clown either.
Please. It’s not that bad, and I don’t appreciate people disparaging the Tea Party because we’re excited over a nationally-known speaker (two now, actually). If you don’t like it, don’t knock it.
But you can have some cookie dough. That’s an open invitation to all …well, except maybe the idiot from Bridgeport who is threatening us…
Hey, I’m not disparaging the Tea Party. It WAS a great thing. I was proud to be associated with it at the beginning, the heady days of ’07 and ’08 when Dr. Paul made his run and woke a lot of people (including a disillusioned young man like me) up to just how severe a course our nation has headed down. It continues to barrel down that course at breakneck speed.
But the old guard of the Republican Party (Neo-Cons) have stolen it away from ernest, intelligent people such as the Campaign for Liberty or Mises Institute and paraded out dunces like Wurzelbacher and Palin to discredit our movement and make asses out of us all.
I don’t appreciate Wurzelbacher being involved, so I’m going to knock it. That attitude seems to be in the spirit of your publication/website. Just because I really like what you’re doing doesn’t mean I’m going to agree with everything about everything y’all say and do.
But the old guard hasn’t hijacked OUR Tea Party, nor any others in the area, either. We are a bunch of independent-minded people who despise the Neo-Cons as much as we do the Marxist Obamanuts. THAT’S what I resent about the implication.
I was utterly disillusioned, too, until Dr. Paul came along. If you look at our newspapers from late 2007, you’ll see that we were the ones promoting the November 5 and December Tea Party money bombs. Let me tell you something…we lost subscribers over that. People literally cancelled their subscriptions because they detested Dr. Paul…because they just didn’t know. Now, there aren’t a lot of people who have ‘converted,’ the old ones still hate what they “don’t know,” but the ones who were kinda floating out there in the ozone not caring, like I was, grabbed onto it. And I really latched onto Dr. Paul. Ang and I and the kids spent every free moment we had for WEEKS circulating ballot access petitions in late 07. We spent hours upon hours writing letters to people in Iowa trying to get them to understand what Dr. Paul was about. Hell, the backwards red ‘love’ is on my damn business card under the masthead, just like on our front page here.
So I was pissed off when the Tea Party movement kinda ‘hijacked’ Dr. Paul’s Tea Party/revolution theme…but as I started going to the Tea Parties, I realized they had just capitalized on a good idea and lent it their local flavor. The idea is the same—smaller government, expanded freedoms, getting away from the socialist/progressive movement—but everyone executes it differently. Sam Wurzelbach is a ‘different’ way of executing it, over in Marion…but it’s the way that seems to be working, to bring in people that may have not thought about it before because really, are my wife or Larry Pearson or Larry Morse any kind of celebrities? No. Who’s going to pay money to hear them speak, at least the bit of money it takes to rent the civic center? Not many people (although there are always generous donations at each Tea Party for an offset of expenses). But people, even perhaps rove-cuddling neocons, might come hear Wurzelbacher…and they might get their brains rewired in the right direction by listening to Ang speak about Liberalism in Media, or Larry speak about honoring our soldiers and veterans, or some other powerful speaker about Second Amendment rights or something else…so isn’t that worth it? I believe it is.
It seems like you put some time and effort into your last post, thanks for that. I was hoping that you wouldn’t resort to anything lowly or boorish (in theFox News-styleI.
I humbly admit I just moved back to the area a little while ago and still am not up to speed on local politics. I just figured “ChickenBob” (great moniker btw) still runs the show, even after all these years. However, I’ll fork over $10 and be in attendance on the 2nd. I’ll probably still dislike The Plumber Guy after the event, but I’ll form my opinions on the local folks only after I see them in the flesh.
Glad to hear it, silver dollar. Maybe the Tea Party can change Joe the Plumber’s image…
hey admin…..can I start calling you “Joe the Journalist”…..kinda has a ring to it…..
Is everything still “All Systems Go” for the Tea Party Rally? I got my ticket yesterday. Looking forward to it! Jack & Ang, are you gonna be available to eat afterwards or will you have to scoot out because of the late hour?
We’ll hang out afterwards…are you gonna wanna go get something to eat? Let me clear it with the spouse first.
There is a place called 17th Street Bar & Grill which is famous for it’s BBQ if y’all want to go there. They have some really good food. Let me know and I will bring my Link Card.
We LOVE 17th Street!! Let me see what we can arrange…