Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin
told Breitbart News Sunday host Stephen K. Bannon on
Sunday night that her group has a plan to prepare activists for town halls
with their U.S. Representatives and Senators on Obamacare and immigration
nationwide over the month of August.
“Really, the rise of the Tea Party started in
2009, I guess, it was four years ago, in the summer of 2009,” Bannon opened up
his questions with Martin on the show. "We had the meetings, we had the
rallies, but it really started with the town halls against Obamacare. Over the
next five weeks we have both the defunding of Obamacare, which is being
sponsored and driven by Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, but probably more
important is immigration and the immigration bill and representatives going
back and hearing from people.”
Martin responded with a detailed plan her
group Tea Party Patriots has for five individual town halls it is hosting with
other conservative groups across the country, and details for constituents
attending town halls put on by their congressional members.
“We’re focusing on both of those [Obamacare
defunding and immigration] and also on IRS,” Martin said. “With immigration,
we’re partnering with Eagle Forum, Remembrance Project and NumbersUSA. We’re
going to be in Richmond on August 12 at a town hall meeting there. We’re
looking at August 19 at having a town hall meeting in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
And then we have three more in the works in Ohio, Dallas, Texas, and in South
Carolina. And these are all town halls that we are hosting.
"So we’re doing this to get the
information and the facts out there about what is in the Senate bill and what
will likely happen if anything passes through the House and these bills go to
conference. We’re also getting information about these congressmen and senators
who are having these town halls around the country so we can let people know
when their congressmen or senators are having these town halls and they can
show up and confront them with the facts.”
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