Upcoming Hunstville TEA Party events

Sunday, April 4th:
Tea Party Express is coming to the Space & Rocket Center
at 2:00 PM. They are providing the speakers. It should be good. (Though Easter Sunday is not the best time for such an event! I hope to make it to at least some of this, but I'm not sure at this point.)

Thursday, April 15th:
We want to have a HUGE turnout for our April 15th Tax Day Protest.
Tell all of your friends, email everyone you know, post it on
Facebook, anything you can think of to help us get people out. April
15th from 5:00 to 7:00 PM in the parking lot on Clinton street across
from the Post Office. We have great speakers lined up. Mike Leahy, Dr.
John Fanning, and Gary Palmer from the Alabama Policy Institute.

Bring your signs!

(I do plan to make it to the April 15th Protest - we plan to leave CLC by 4:00 that day if you want to go downtown with us.)

Saturday, May 15th:
Making of America - Constitution Seminar. 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THIS EVENT. Once again we are having an
excellent instructor from the National Center for Constitutional
Studies (NCCS) come and teach us about the principles of the
constitution. Cost is $15 per person. Intended audience is 8th graders
through adults. Location to be announced soon. The deadline for
payment is April 20th. Please make checks payable to "The Huntsville
Tea Party Movement" and mail them to Chad at: 105 Pinckney Rd Harvest, AL 35749

I do hope to make it to the Constitution Seminar also.

Virginia Plan

The Virginia Plan
Here are some of the long awaited details for the Govt Club/Shakespeare trip to Virginia:

Dates: Friday, April 16 -- Monday, April 19

Plan is to spend the nights in Staunton, VA;
We will attend 3 Shakespeare plays, 1 Friday night, and 2 on Saturday
Sunday we will be driving to Orange, Va, and spending the day at James Madison's home.
Monday we will be driving home

Costs will include Gas; Meals; Hotel; Shakespeare Plays and entrance into Madison's home

Here are the tentative breakdowns, based on current information, and based on 12- 15 of us going.

per student:
Gas $20
Hotel, 3 nights $60
Shakespeare Tickets $60
Entrance to Madison $10
Meals $50
$200


These are approximate figures based on the information and numbers I have now.
If anything the prices should go down a little, not up.

Any questions, just ask: Cathy at cmmjaime@alum.mit.edu or 235-3305

I need to know by next Wednesday, March 24th which students plan to join us.

March Meetings

The 1st & 3rd Meetings of March will be Youth Legislature related...We want to discuss/debate some of the bills from last weekend, and get started on righting some new ones while we're "in the mode".

The 2nd and 4th meetings of March we'll combine work on another mini Mock Trial and a general meeting.

And we hope to "try the case" at the 5th meeting in March...

Youth Leg Follow Up

Well, we had a small group do Youth Leg this year, but I think it is safe to say that a good time was had by all. Katie had the privilege of arguing her bill before the Supreme Court, Victoria had the excitement of having a lobbyist pick her bill to campaign against, and Ben was chosen as an alternate to National Affairs. (Katie had that honor last year as well.) Since I wasn't in the Supreme Court this year, I was able to watch much of the debating, and enjoyed seeing all three of them in action, including seeing Victoria explain very clearly that the world around us couldn't have come into being through random accidents.

I was very proud of them, and I am re-energized to keep "fighting the good fight" in the Legislative process there.