News Nearby: Tea Party Express Kicks Off National Tour
Tom Smith, Pennsylvania's GOP candidate for U.S. Senate, attended Friday’s event in Cranberry Township.
Fresh from winning the Republican nod in Tuesday’s primary election, Armstrong County’s Tom Smith—who will face incumbent Sen. Bob Casey in November’s U.S. Senate race—was among the crowd gathered Friday at North Boundary Park in Cranberry for a Tea Party Express rally. “This is the grass roots and this is what’s going to get this country back on track,” said Smith, who was endorsed today by the Tea Party Express. “These are my kind of people.” Billed as the nation’s largest Tea Party political action committee, The Tea Party Express was in Cranberry to kick off its Restoring the American Dream national bus tour. Conservative talk radio host Rose Tennent, of The War Room with Quinn and Rose, emceed the event. Other speakers and …
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B. Ross
5:17 pm on Saturday, April 28, 2012
Attended the rally in Cranberry Twp. The Tea Party movement is constantly mischaracterized in the media and by bloggers. It is a grassroots movement that consists of citizens who are concerned about the out-of-control spending, the exploding deficit that will be left to future generations, the constant intrusion of the federal govenment into our everyday lives, and the creeping destruction of … more ›