I’ll Believe in the Tea Baggers if Tamyra Gets the Signatures
Tamyra d’Ippolito has suddenly become a Very Important Person.
She needs signatures primarily in Indian’s Eighth District (currently represented by Brad Ellsworth, who would be the Party’s pick to replace Evan Bayh), Evansville, and Terre Haute. She has a background to make a Tea Partier proud:
I was born in Worthington, Indiana and raised in Linton. Currently, I live in Bloomington. I was raised an only child with a single, hard-working mother who “retired” from General Electric as a factory worker.
I attended college at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, receiving my degrees in Graphic Design and Photography. The United States government financed my education with federal grants.
In 1981, jobs were limited in Indiana so I moved to Houston, Texas and worked for over 3 years at Foley’s, an advertising agency, as a Production Artist. At 25, I moved to New York City where I lived for the next 20 years. I worked on Wall Street for Salomon Smith Barney and later for Lehman Brothers. While in NYC I picked up another degree at the New York Film Academy in Filmmaking….
When I returned to Indiana, I was chosen by the Linton Rotary to go with a team to the country of Brazil. We were Ambassadors of the USA and traveled to 6 different cities. In Indiana, I became involved with World Learning. I worked as a Regional Director with World Learning in Indiana, Boston, and New York City
However, since moving to Indiana I have had no health insurance. I was diagnosed with colon cancer five years ago giving me a pre-existing condition. Additionally, I own a small business. Those two obstacles make insurance very expensive and unattainable. As a cancer survivor and small business owner, health reform is an issue that directly affects me like many Indiana residents.
I own and operate the Ragazzi Arte Cafe in Bloomington. I also founded the Poor Club, www.thepoorclub.org, after meeting many people who are in need. Our mission is to bring awareness and education to the fact that poverty is prevalent in Indiana and I want to make a change for the better.
I am a past board member of Women Inspire, www.womeninspire.org. I am also a member of PSI XOTA, a philanthropic sorority. Some of my accomplishments are Leadership Bloomington Graduate of 1995 and City of Bloomington Citizens’ Academy Graduate in 2008. I also serve on the Volunteers in Medicine Advisory Board.
Right now, the Democratic Party (having been royally screwed by its current Senator) is hoping that Tammy doesn’t get enough signatures to qualify for the ballot, which would enable them to pick someone without bothering with a primary.
But here’s a small business owner, someone who earned things and is quite aware of “from where it is that I come from.”
In short, an ideal candidate from outside of the Establishment—but one who comes naturally without having to build a third party. And someone who—as a small-business owner—knows very well what works and what doesn’t.
If the Tea Party people endorse her, then I’ll take them seriously. If they avoid her because she would have to run with a (D) next to her name, then that will tell us everything we need to know about whether they are Astroturf.
Um…
You start by calling them ‘tea baggers’…..and want them to have you take them seriously?
There’s one day to get a name on the ballot. Aint gonna happen for Tamyra, no matter how qualified. Plus, nothing in this post indicates that Tamyra would be fiscally conservative. How she becomes your tea party litmus test remains a mystery.
I guess I sort of feel like kstills–who are you kidding? There is nothing about that biography which suggests she would have any appeal to the Teabaggers. She got “welfare” to go to school for heavens sake and she thinks there is a problem with our health insurance system. She also seems to have some ideas about where we go as a country. In other words she is the exact opposite of a Teabagger.
Agree with Terry. Nothing about Tamyra screams teabagger. She doesn’t blame the government for all of our problems. She doesn’t want to restore 19th century society. She probably doesn’t even believe Obama was born in Kenya.
This looks like a false flag offer to me, Angry Bear.
I would expect potential Taxed Enough Already candidates to express a conviction that taxes and government intrusion into our affairs are too high and should be both reduced. Her bio, as quoted here, is silent on both these points.
For myself, I’d say that not belng a lawyer, and being a small business owner, are both points in her favor. But its not clear that has much bearing on a TEA Party endorsement.
Terry:
And you believe:
– You went to school with no government aid what-so-ever?
– And you also believe you have healthcare insurance and there is no problem with it?
The lady is about as grass roots as anyone else. Her only problem is she is honest and admits to what brought her to the present day which so many see to ignore or have not come to realize.
Hold on now Ken. The Americans in the Tea Party events are regular folks who want freedom and less government. They come from all walks of life. They are conservative and know that the free market is the only way. There is no perfect system, but it works the best.
This woman seems very nice on paper, but big government democrats will eat her up and spit her out.
Healthcare. I was born in Portugal, and they have free healthcare. Great right? Nope. Ask anyone from Portugal, and they will tell you that if you are sick, you go top a pharmacist – not a doctor. No drug interaction checks, no blood tests – you get the pills and go. My aunt was on a waiting list for hip replacement surgery for 3 years. When she finally got called up, she had already passed away. Meanwhile, 60 cents on the dollar (60% euro) is taken out for entitlements. Most ambulance drives will not show up if you are over 65 in all of europe, unless you pay a bribe.
So – Tea Baggers, as you say – need to vote for a conservative, not a sob story.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/15/too-good-to-check-no-name-lefty-candidate-may-sneak-in-as-dems-indiana-senate-nominee/
The Republicans are on it.
Another Dem abandons ship. Why?…. we just grazed the iceberg….
The questions raised in the final paragraph: “1) If the Tea Party people endorse her, then I’ll take them seriously. 2) If they avoid her because she would have to run with a (D) next to her name, then that will tell us everything we need to know about whether they are Astroturf. ” Tells us much about Ken. His question 2 tells us he really knows little about the movement. His question 1 shows us he knows even less about the candidate.
Ken appears to be in denial that the Tea Party movement has legs even though NY and MA have shown the movement to have amazing strength. If he represents the typical Dem mindset, then Nov. is going to be a big surprise to him (and them.)
Actually I did go to school without government aid, but that was because I was fortuntate to choose pretty well to do parents and have done my best to pay for my kids higher education to return the generational favor and of course I think that the current health care payment system sucks–any thinking person not controlled by ideology would feel the same way. My point is that the Teabaggers are not thinking people. In a different era they would have been referred to as “rable” by the media. Now the media actively supports them to boost ratings.
CoRev,
The Teabagger candidate in NY lost and Sen. Brown threw the Teabaggers under the bus in MA. Brown went out of his way to disown and disassociate himself from the Teabagger movement.
I came back as I always do. I love your blog and hold no reservations against you. I do feel that somtimes you are nuts, but you ad value to my life.
Hayek vs keynes
Awesome videohttp://mises.org/daily/4095
Terry:
Thanks for the affirmation on two very important topics. I will still say the gov helped you through school in indirect ways the say as they have helped millions of others. Hard to escape the helping hand.
and whats your alternative to “no” healthcare insurance?
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate…we can not consecrate…we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government: of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Keep believing that ole sow’s ear is silk, 2 slugs.
Lol, well, Tamyra is reaching out to the “Tea Baggers” on her face book page.
Good luck with that, Tammy. 🙂
As for the comments that the Tea Party is ‘rabble’, keep believing that if you wish. Just don’t be surprised in November. 🙂
Republican candidate John Hostettler is going to make immigration a central issue in this race. This will be an interesting race to watch
My apologies kstills. i did not understand that your question was whether the Teabaggers had enough political saavy and organizational strength to get her the signatures so that the Democrats could not run a strong candidate. Reports are that someone helped her out. I stand by my definition of rable–we have always had groups like the Teabaggers and they surface in times of great national angst. Historically the media and more mainstream groups have managed to prevent a descent into anarchy, but who knows? The media has hyped their nonsense and their numbers and the business interests apparantly see more threat from Obama’s centrist policies than the destruction of the United States that the Teabaggers advocate.
A lovely story. Really. I’m sure she is a wonderful person.
What are her policy positions? Or, am I supposed to support someone because of her story? Is this what you’re saying? Right? You’re suggesting a dichotomy: 1) inside the establishment and 2) outside the establishment. I absoutely loath the establishment in this country. This does not mean, ergo, I support all anti-establishment candidates.
Thud.
Idiot. There will always be poor.
Mary sees the fustration in Jesus’ eyes and attempts to cool him with fine and expensive ointments, Judus grabs the oils out of her hand protesting “Woman, your fine ointment, brand new and expensive could have been saved for the poor.” Jesus growing more and more fustrated explain that there will always be poor, and that they cannot help everyone.
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