Tea Party Movement 2-28-24

On September 12, 2009, Tea Party protests were held in various cities around the nation. In Washington, D.C., Tea Party protests gathered to march from Freedom Plaza to the United States Capitol. Estimates of the number of attendees varied, from "tens of thousands" to "in excess of 75,000". Google search 

The Tea Party Movement began in 2009. Tea Party Republicans were beginning to be elected in 2010. Establishment RINOs were retiring and failing to win their seats. The battle between the Tea Party Republicans and RINOs raged until 2016. The Tea Party supported Conservative Constitutional Republicans and helped define Trump’s 2016 campaign. The MAGA movement merged the Tea Party and all remaining Conservatives. 

The Tea Party Movement took a break from 2017 to 2020. We only come out when the “Redcoats” hit the bridge. We continue to blog in cities and have meetings in rural areas. We are comfortable with our merger to the MAGA Movement.

I founded the Dunwoody GA Tea Party in 2011 and registered on TeaParty.net. I started this blog in 2011 after I attended a rigged “vision” meeting that threatened the Williamsburg architecture in our strip-malls.  It was UN Agenda 21 implementation initiated by ICLEI. 

Dunwoody was incorporated as a city in 2009 to escape DeKalb County and needed road maintenance. DeKalb had allowed Non-Profits to squat on county land and the City Council elections included members of the Non-Profit boards. They immediately protected their Non-Profits and began implementing US Agenda 21 under Regionalism laws passed by the Georgia Legislature. They added unnecessary expenses by using Engineering Consulting Companies to road repair and intersection expansion costs. They replaced “low bidder” purchasing for road maintenance with “most favored insider” requirements.  The whole thing smelled of corruption. Their “brand” was “Smart Growth”. Cities and Counties adopted the same planning manual provided by the American Planning Association. These planning manuals were adopted across the US. Regional planning replaced city and county sovereignty. City Managers replaced elected Mayors. Costs doubled from 2010 to 2012.

The Dunwoody City Council took control of private businesses with their “Master Plan” to turn Dunwoody into a Transit Village. The “Master Plan” included an unnecessary increase in parkland required by the American Planning Association (a UN Agenda 21 enabler). They included unnecessary bike lanes and 12 foot wide multi-use trails and an edict that 10% of our 13 square-mile city should be Parks. They established a “Development Board” to give tax breaks to bribe companies to locate in Dunwoody.  Dunwoody had been an established haven of single-family homes nestled in subdivisions with swim and tennis clubs, narrow roads and 4-foot wide sidewalks limited to main roads. It sat due north of Atlanta with access to I-285.

The City of Dunwoody issued restrictions on what homeowners could do to upgrade their property. I was fortunate to expand my own driveway parking pad and lay my own brick patio before 2009. 

I funded yard signs to defeat the Dunwoody Park Bonds in 2011. This was a 30 year, $66 million bond paying 5% with a price-tag of $128 million for unnecessary parkland and multiuse trains. Voters voted it down.

 I served on the Georgia Tea Party Team Committee in 2012 and defeated the TSPLOST vote. It was an $8 billion tax and failed in all but one Region. Half of the $8 billion would have been spent on expensive rail transit and the other half on road projects were all special interest projects that had failed to be passed and that didn’t connect to solve any problems. I did the financial analysis for the Atlanta 10 County Region and found that all costs doubled from 2010 to 2012. The Atlanta by-pass I-285 was built too close to the city and was choked with interstate trucks and local commuters. GDOT refused to connect US 27 with I-70 and i-85 South of Atlanta to give trucks a real by-pass. The EPA had frozen highway construction in Georgia due to auto exhaust air pollution and that delayed real improvements for decades.

Atlanta was rebuilt after 1865 with narrow residential streets. As the city rebuilt its commercial property, much of it remained on narrow streets. When highways were built, they were built on expanded roads and elevated ramps and exited on narrow streets. It was a recipe for congestion. The sewers and water lines that were added after 1900 were poorly maintained and now Atlanta is the sink-hole, sewer break and watermain break capital of the South. The population of the 11 county Atlanta Metro is 5.1 million. The population of the 2 core counties of Fulton and DeKalb is 1.885 million. The population of the 2 largest suburban counties of Gwinnett and Cobb is 1.78 million.

https://atlantaregional.org/what-we-do/research-and-data/atlanta-region-population-estimates/

The suburban counties around Atlanta that were built in the 1960s allowed for wider streets and most of the industries located there before they left for overseas.

My career led us to Atlanta and we like the weather and our 1000 foot bug-free elevation at the base of the Appalachian Mountains. We liked to flowering trees and plants. Our kids grew up here and settled in the Atlanta suburbs and Florida.

I was impressed with the quality of leadership and government in St. Louis, St Charles Mo and Salina Kansas. I knew Atlanta had problems and was curious about what went wrong in Atlanta.

I served as a Delegate to the Georgia Republican Convention in 2012 and 2013 to elect a Party Chairman. The meetings were designed to control the outcomes to favor “insiders”. These were Georgia RINOs. My DeKalb County Republican and Young Republican organizations had Ron Paul Constitutional Conservatives.

I led the Save Dunwoody campaign to reject multi-purpose paths and roundabouts with yard signs and a website in 2013 and ran 4 candidates for City Counsel. I served as Chairman of the Dunwoody Community Counsel from 2014 to 2016 for zoning hearings. I rode in the Dunwoody July 4 Parades from 2011 to 2017. From 2020 to 2023, I posted Covid19 Pandemic data. In 2023, my group defeated another Dunwoody Park Bond vote.

The Blog has enabled me to share relevant data on history, economics and politics that is not easily accessible. This includes data on Careers, Motivated Abilities, Medicine, Life Expectancy, Home Ownership and Family Wealth Creation and data I use to track our Economy like US Nominal GDP, Debt-to-GDP, Average Household Income, Population Demographics, Government Spending, National Debt, Jobs Reports, Trade Deficits, Illegal and Refugee Immigration, Energy Production, Energy Costs, Taxation and Inflation.

The battle between the Tea Parties and the RINOs is not over. We are counting on Trump to reinstate his policies and drain the swamp. I prefer Mike Pompeo to succeed Trump. We need Conservative Republicans to take the House and Senate in 2024. We need real conservative Republicans in the Governor’s office and in the Georgia Legislatre to clean up the mess and return manufacturing from overseas to rural counties. This should be easy, because most of our Legislators are from rural counties. We need to shrink the population in large metro areas like Atlanta to decongest our road and highway traffic.

The major political parties in the US includes the Democrats and the Republicans. In 2023, 25% of people identified as Democrat, 25% as Republican and 49% Independent. Apr 17, 2023. There are a large number of voters who have declared that they are Independent, but polls indicate that Trump will be reelected in 2024. There are minor parties, like the Libertarian, Green. The Socialist and Communist parties usually vote Democrat and now control the Biden Administration.

I base my political world view on free-market economics, history, data and trends. I am immune to distractions, fads and bandwagons. I oppose economy-wrecking hoaxes and scams and view these as acts of sabotage. I believe God has a plan, but it’s instructive and you’re not going to like some of it. I believe we are all mammals doing the best we can. I have an instinct for detecting corruption and attacking it.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader