I’ve been working with Kristin Sohlstrom (barrecityteaparty@gmail.com) to organize an Independence Day Tea Party in Barre City. This is her first time organizing something like this and up until recently has not been very politically active. She is an independent, unaffiliated with a party, and wants this tea party to be be as inclusive as possible.

I realize that this isn’t necessarily a sympathetic venue, but we’re extending a hand.

From Kristin:

There is a revolution brewing in this state the likes of which haven’t been seen before.  It’s the direct result of a national NONPARTISAN grassroots movement (not “paid volunteers”) to make the government at all levels accountable to their constituents and to stop the excessive taxation and spending.

I am the organizer of the Barre City Tea Party to be held July 4th at the City Hall Park in Barre from 11:00-12:00.  You are all invited to attend and to bring as many people and signs as you can muster.

I am a very disgruntled taxpayer who isn’t at all buying the rhetoric from Montpelier that all parties did everything they could to reduce the highest tax burden in the country.  What those of us who are watching know is that both budgets did nothing more than maintain the status quo in spending and to provide funding for increased government.

As Thomas Jefferson said, “A wise and prudent government does not take bread from the mouth of labor.”

There have been many misconceptions about who the Tea Party participants are.  Please feel free to ask me any questions about who we are.  This is my first time doing anything like this and I’m not the only first-time organizer.  This is overwhelming and a bit intimidating, but the importance of this movement overshadows all of that because at the end of the day, the sovereignty and liberty of the individual in this country and in the State of Vermont is at stake.