The Leflore County TEA Party Planners

This evening I had the opportunity to attend a meeting at the Buckley Library in Poteau. This particular meeting was of the Leflore County TEA Party Planners. I found a diverse group of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. The discussions were consistently directed towards responsible spending, choosing responsible representation, and getting voters interested the issues, the candidates, and showing up to the polls.

This group of people was significantly different than what one would expect after watching CNN and MSNBC coverage of TEA Partys. There were no Republican handlers organizing thought. There were no extremists shouting half baked rhetoric. Contrary to what some media outlets would lead one to believe, these were all rational people using logic to asses the current state of government spending.

One can assume that all TEA Party Planning groups are not created equal. It's possible that there are some out there that are as irresponsible as the politicians that have spawned their need to organize. Since I tend to not believe "everything I read" or think that "It has to be true, I read it on the Internet", it was interesting to meet a group of people that could agree on something. Regardless of political affiliation, our politicians are more interested in getting elected than in representing their constituents in a responsible manner.