GiN on KLKN TV: Tea Party Movement Impact In Nebraska

Post author:Stubborn_Facts
Post published:September 18, 2010
Post category:Nebraska / Network Archives

By Shelli Dawdy

Lincoln’s KLKN TV contacted me Friday, requesting an interview regarding recent developments in the primary elections. The reporter, Stephanie Costanzo, informed KLKN had done a story everyday this week on the tea party’s impact and they were looking for the local perspective. Did the successes in other places in the country provide any momentum to the Nebraska tea party movement?

You can check out my answer in the interview video. Channel 8 generally does a good job on these stories (outside of calling GiN “Nebraska Tea Party”). I don’t have to be too concerned about getting taken out of context, which I appreciate.

What didn’t make TV are the points I made about how Christine O’Donnell’s victory in Delaware and some of the other challenger victories in some of these later Republican primaries are not only hopeful, they are indicative. There is a very necessary and almost cosmic struggle taking place – thank the Good Lord. At least some voters in some places realize that the Republican Party is just as much our problem in so many ways as the Democratic one.

What I did not say…

The vitriol coming out of the Republican Party immediately following the realization that O’Donnell had picked off their RINO candidate was shocking even to someone like myself, who didn’t think they could be surprised by the tactics of party-powerful types.

Announcing there would be no support for their own party’s nominee was something I couldn’t have predicted. I don’t know what was more heartening; O’Donnell’s victory or the backlash Wednesday morning when common sense Republicans across the country started pouring their wrath down on the RNC’s heads.

What else “hit the cutting room floor”? Tuesday’s victory in Delaware, and others, show that this is not about President Obama or the Democrats. People are tired of politics as usual; they are fed up with politicians.

Finally, to support my claim that we can have more impact within Nebraska than on a federal level, I briefly explained how many Nebraskans worked hard to support the passage of the Sovereignty Resolution. There was a large turnout to the hearing for the resolution and a persistence in maintaining contact with Senators.

If we focus our energy on local government, it does have an impact.

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Shelli Dawdy is first and foremost the mother of three children whom she has taught at home via the classical method since removing her children from school in 2001. During her early years as a homeschool mother, she worked part-time as a freelance writer. Born and raised in the Iowa, Shelli and her husband moved to the state of South Dakota in 1997, attracted to its more limited government and friendly tax environment. In 2006, Shelli and her family relocated to Lincoln, Nebraska, when her husband’s employer offered a new position. She took a break from work and politics for a time, recognizing the need to focus solely on her childrens’ schooling with two now of high school age. Distressed by many things she was witnessing on the national political scene and disillusioned about the Republican Party, she decided to start writing again, this time online. Motivated to get involved with others at the grassroots level, she networked with activists on the social media tool, Twitter. She was involved in organizing the first tea party rallies inspired by Rick Santelli’s “rant” on CNBC in February 2009. Recognizing that activism should generate on the local level, she founded Grassroots in Nebraska in March of 2009. The group’s mission is a return to Constitutional, limited government, according to its original meaning. While the group has held several tea party rallies, it’s focus is to take effective action. Among its many projects, GiN successfully coordinated testimony for the hearing of the Nebraska Sovereignty Resolution, networked with other groups to ensure a large show of public support at the hearing, and coordinated follow up support to ensure its passage in April 2010. While working to build up GiN throughout 2009, she was asked to work as writer and producer of the documentary film, A New America, which lays out how Progressivism is responsible for how America has moved away from its Constitutional roots. You can see more of her work on Grassroots in Nebraska (GiN) and StubbornFacts

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