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The Redlands Tea Party Patriots recently honored its founding members while celebrating its five year anniversary with a special meeting featuring two coordinators from the national Tea Party Patriots as guest speakers.

The Redlands Tea Party Patriots was started in 2009 when Lane Schneider organized her first rally in 2009. Schneider said when she saw what was happening around the country she wanted to do something about it but did not know exactly what. She turned to the internet and found that people were holding demonstrations around the country. When she contacted a Tea Party group in Rancho Cucamonga it was suggested she start her own in Redlands.

On April 15, 2009, Schneider and long-time friend Dawn Verkaik organized their first tax day rally at the corner of Redlands Boulevard and Orange Street in Redlands. By the next event, a rally opposing the American Care Act, the new group had over 100 participants. This was followed by a town hall meeting with Congressman Jerry Lewis speaking on the Affordable Care Act, to an audience of about 800.

A picture slide show accompanied the presentation and the club's founding cabinet members were invited to the stage to receive their honors. The club's first cabinet included: Schneider, Verkaik, Annie Rumary, Phillip Naman, Steve Stelter, Sandy Ziegler and Peter Dirkson.

The club then heard from national coordinators for the Tea Party Patriots Gregg Cummings and Marie Acosta. Acosta, founder of her own group in Texas, shared with the club a new logo and slogan, "Pursue Your American Dream," adopted by the Tea Party. They are part of a new effort, based on research study, to more positively promote the Tea Party's message and values to people of different opinions.

The new logo comes with three rephrased guiding principles meant to promote the "freedom necessary to pursue the American dream," Acosta said. The new principles are personal freedom, economic freedom and debt free future.

"We've take our founding principles of fiscal responsibility, constitutional limited government and free market and - without watering them down - we have found words that are more personal and will help you find opportunities for amazing conversation with people who aren't with us and change their mind," Acosta said.

"For 'fiscal responsibility' we now have 'debt free future,'" Acosta explained. "Fiscal responsibility is something people associate with paying their bills. I recall talking about debt in my town and seeing people's eyes glaze over, but what really touches people's hearts is when you talk about passing debts on to their children and their grandchildren. People want to take care of their families and leaving a debt free future."

In keeping with the evening's anniversary theme, Gregg Cummings spoke on the Tea Party's success in creating change and active political participation.

"We the people are the movement, the Tea Party Patriots are not the movement. We are all part of the movement," Cummings said. "We are not a political party like the Democrats or the Republicans. We are the people, and we are the authority of this country."

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Amy Kremer, the Tea Party Express chairman who's played a major role in elections for the past five years, is resigning.

"This has been a really difficult decision for me, but the time has come for me to leave Tea Party Express," Kremer said Friday.

The group is one of the largest and most politically active national tea party organizations. It got its start in 2009 as a bus tour that crisscrossed the country multiple times as it held rallies and supported conservative candidates.

In the 2012 election cycle, the group partnered with CNN to host the first tea party Republican presidential debate.

The timing of her departure comes as the Tea Party Express plans to spend four days in Florida's 19th Congressional District to support conservative Curt Clawson in a special election.

But Kremer says she doesn't want to dedicate her time to a district that already leans Republican and on a race that will have to take place again in November.

Instead, Kremer will be doing consulting for businessman Matt Bevin, who's challenging Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky's GOP primary on May 20.

"This should be ground zero for the movement," Kremer told CNN. "A U.S. senator definitely has more of an impact on our debt than a congressman that potentially will spend eight months in Washington, and my heart tells me that I should be on the ground focused on competitive Senate races."

Still, Kremer described her split with Tea Party Express as amicable.

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(CNN) Amy Kremer, the Tea Party Express chairman who's played a major role in elections for the past five years, is resigning.

"This has been a really difficult decision for me, but the time has come for me to leave Tea Party Express," Kremer said Friday.

The group is one of the largest and most politically active national tea party organizations. It got its start in 2009 as a bus tour that crisscrossed the country multiple times as it held rallies and supported conservative candidates.

In the 2012 election cycle, the group partnered with CNN to host the first tea party Republican presidential debate.

The timing of her departure comes as the Tea Party Express plans to spend four days in Floridas 19th Congressional District to support conservative Curt Clawson in a special election.

But Kremer says she doesnt want to dedicate her time to a district that already leans Republican and on a race that will have to take place again in November.

Instead, Kremer will be doing consulting for businessman Matt Bevin, whos challenging Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentuckys GOP primary on May 20.

This should be ground zero for the movement, Kremer told CNN. A U.S. senator definitely has more of an impact on our debt than a congressman that potentially will spend eight months in Washington, and my heart tells me that I should be on the ground focused on competitive Senate races.

Still, Kremer described her split with Tea Party Express as amicable.

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Wisconsin Republicans will vote next month on whether or not to support the state's right to secede from the United States of America. (PHOTO: Darin ten Bruggencate) Published April 17, 2014 at 9:02 a.m.

I am one of those level-headed sophisticates who has always laughed at the Tea Party.

I've always dismissed them as a bunch of dissatisfied wingnuts who gather under the cover of darkness and say a prayer to Sen. Ted Cruz, who is the chief wingnut, unless you consider Sen. Rand Paul, and then we've got a tie for the Wacko in Chief.

But tremors have begun to shake through me as I sit idly by and watch the ground being gobbled up by the Tea Party in Wisconsin by four stunning political events.

First State Sen. Mike Ellis was surreptitiously videotaped by that crazy James O'Keefe, who runs something called Project Veritas. Ellis was embarrassed by political conversation in a bar that seemed to advocate something against the rules. So, Ellis resigned, providing a victory for the Tea Party and its supporters. Thus ended a 44-year career in the legislature and removed a Republican voice of reason.

If anyone wants to know about O'Keefe, just listen to what James Letten, who was the U.S. Attorney in Louisiana, had to say about Project Veritas after the organization went after him, even though he proved they were wrong in their allegations.

"You went to my house, you terrorized my wife, you're violating federal law, you're trespassing, you're a nasty little cowardly spud," Letten said last year in a video he posted. "All of you, you're hobbits. You are less than I can ever tell you. You are scum. Do you understand?"

O'Keefe did not seem to publicly object to the characterizations.

Ellis was the first of the victories for the Tea Party in the last week.

Next to fall was veteran congressman Tom Petri who has represented the Fox Valley for over four decades. Petri, a middle-of-the-road Republican faced a primary challenge from State Sen. Glenn Grothman, who has built a reputation not quite as extreme as Cruz, but then again, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It's fair to say that Petri didn't relish getting into a fight with the extremists on the right edge of the mantlepiece.

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