TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2015

So If You’re Now On Your Way to Tonight’s GOP Presidential Debate Watching Party, Pull A U-ey And Head Back Home

Tomorrow was supposed to be the biggest day in the year for TEA Party Patriots all over America. After all, as Hurley the Historian explained this morning in our Special “TEA Party Day Eve” E-dition, The History Channel says on tomorrow’s date in 1773, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians boarded three British tea ships moored in Boston Harbor and dumped 342 chests of tea into the water. Now known as the “Boston Tea Party,” the midnight raid was a protest of the Tea Act of 1773, a bill enacted by the British Parliament to save the faltering British East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade.

But the sun won’t be shining nearly so brightly for Clermont County TEA Partiers tomorrow, especially not after the following message appeared on that organization’s web page:

After our last regular meeting and Ted’s resignation, the steering committee had a meeting to make some decisions about the future of the Clermont Tea Party. After much deliberation and discussion, we decided that the monthly meetings were no longer serving the objectives of growing our membership, and increasing engagement. In fact, attendance at our meetings has dropped to about a third of what it was even early this year. We interpret this as a declining interest, even in a presidential election cycle. As a result, we will not be holding our monthly meetings going forward.  We will, however, schedule special meetings, as conditions dictate.

 We will maintain the Clermont Tea Party web site and Facebook page as well as our communications for the foreseeable future. Thanks to all of our loyal supporters for the last six years! It has been a great run, but we need to change directions.

 Thank you all,

Roger Baxter

It sounds like at least in Clermont County, the TEA Party just got bagged!