Ann Arbor Tea Party to Meet on Diag

The Tea Party movement gets its name from CNBC’s Rick Santelli’s now famous call on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for Americans to organize a second Tea Party.  Santelli was obviously referring to the Boston Tea Party which took place in 1773 to protest the taxes placed on the American settlers by the British Parliament.

Ann Arbor, like many other cities, has their own Tea Party organization.  I was fortunate enough to be able to speak with Melinda Day, a graduate student at the university who helps organize events at the university, to get some information about Ann Arbor’s Tea Party, its organization, and events that it has planned.

The Ann Arbor Tea Party first organized on April fifteenth (Tax Day) of 2009 to protest the stimulus bill originated when Tim Bradburn, whom Day referred to as the “main leader” of the “loosely organized” Ann Arbor Tea Party, realized that he could not go to Lansing for a larger Tax Day protest because of his job.   Because of this he would instead “be on the Diag at 11:30 with the plan to march to the Federal Building at Fifth and Liberty at noon.”  Bradburn received interest from many people and somewhere between 150 and 200 people participated in the first Ann Arbor Tea Party event.

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