Bringing Local Citizens Together...

The West Orlando Tea Party was formed to bring people together from our local area who are tired of the status quo in Washington D.C., who want to make a difference, and who want to have their voices heard.  

We are patriotic Independents, Democrats and Republicans, all united in the basic American principals and values on which our country has been built for over 200 years.  

Our goal is to make our voices heard and to hold our elected representatives accountable to us and to those values and principals expressed by our founding fathers in the United States Constitution.  

We are busy people like you.  People who may not have the time to attend a lot of rallies or that may not have the money to donate, but have the desire to do what they can to protect the future of their children and grandchildren.

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Why A West Orlando Tea Party?

The Federal budget and America's deficit spending is shameful and unsustainable.

Our elected representatives are not listening to us and are ignoring the will of their constituents.

Many of our individual Constitutional freedoms and liberties are either being trampled or ignored entirely by our Federal government.

The size of our Federal government is bloated and out of control.

Many citizens find themselves feeling disconnected and helpless in light of this destructive behavior by our elected officials in Washington.

The West Orlando Tea Party is a rapidly growing group of concerned local citizens who, in our small part, are committed to changing the way our government in Washington is now operating.

We believe that now is the time to restore the values and principals of our founding fathers and the Constitution in the way the Federal government functions. 

But, most importantly, we believe that now is the time to reinstate common sense conservative fiscal responsibility in our government’s finances.

This can only happen if we as citizens, across America and in every community, stand up, get involved and show our elected representatives that we are informed, we are engaged and we are involved. 

That is why there is a West Orlando Tea Party and we welcome you to become a part of it.

 Promises & Covenants 

The West Orlando Tea Party has established some very simple guidelines under which we will conduct ourselves in our meetings, gatherings and events and as we interact with each other, the public and our elected representatives.

A full and complete version of our Promises and Covenants can be downloaded or printed out by clicking here.

The following is an overview of our

Promises & Covenants

We The Participants, in the West Orlando Tea Party, by virtue of our voluntary and independent association and assemblage; and, so as to present to all parties of interest those specific promises and covenants under which our formation, avocations and undertakings shall be conducted, do hereby state, affirm and accede to the following:

Non-Profit Organization ~ There is no profit motivation, commercial or personal financial advancement or interests that will inure to the benefit of any of the founders, organizers, or participants in this organization. 

No Political Party Affiliation~ This organization is not a political party, nor are we affiliated  or a part of any political party. 

Voluntary Participation ~ Any citizen wishing to participate in any of our gatherings; or, who chooses to assist in any of the needs of this organization does so voluntarily. There is no attendance requirement or involvement commitment required of anyone at any time.

Common Interests~ The participants in this organization come together as Americans with common interests in a number of issues of importance to our country, our state and our local governance.  Primarily, our interests are (1) protecting and defending the US Constitution (2) fiscal responsibility and accountability by our government, and (3) advocating for smaller less out of control government.

Standards of Conduct ~ We welcome the participation of all concerned citizens with the understanding that doing so comes with an expressed and implied accord to maintain only the highest standards of conduct in all of our actions.  We condemn the use by any of our participants of: any hate speech, the utterance or writing of any ethnic or racial epithets, swearing or the use of any foul language or any slanderous or libelous behavior.

Abhorrence of Violence ~ Further to our Standards of Conduct, the West Orlando Tea Party denounces, rejects and abhors all acts of violence and/or threats of violence (written or verbal).  We do not condone or support the imposition of will upon or the intimidation of public officials, citizens, protestors, political parties; nor the removal of public officials or the overthrow of government through any act of violence or the threat of any violence whatsoever to accomplish any end.  

Information Resource & Repository ~ One of the important purposes of our assemblage is to serve as an information resource and repository of fact regarding the issues of the day. 

A full and complete version of our Promises and Covenants can be downloaded or printed out by clicking here.

We Do This For Our Children

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The Contract from America

www.contractfromamerica.com

The Contract from America initiative is a grassroots-generated, crowd-sourced, bottom-up call for real economic conservative and good governance reform in Congress developed within the decentralized Tea Party and 9/12 movements.

The Contract from America is a clarion call for those who recognize the importance of free market principles, limited government, and individual liberty.

Please take a minute to visit the Contract from America website to review this initiative between the American citizens and our elected officials.

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The Contract from America

We, the undersigned, call upon those seeking to represent us in public office to sign the Contract from America and by doing so commit to support each of its agenda items, work to bring each agenda item to a vote during the first year, and pledge to advocate on behalf of individual liberty, limited government, and economic freedom.

Individual Liberty

Our moral, political, and economic liberties are inherent, not granted by our government. It is essential to the practice of these liberties that we be free from restriction over our peaceful political expression and free from excessive control over our economic choices.

Limited Government

The purpose of our government is to exercise only those limited powers that have been relinquished to it by the people, chief among these being the protection of our liberties by administering justice and ensuring our safety from threats arising inside or outside our country’s sovereign borders. When our government ventures beyond these functions and attempts to increase its power over the marketplace and the economic decisions of individuals, our liberties are diminished and the probability of corruption, internal strife, economic depression, and poverty increases.

Economic Freedom

The most powerful, proven instrument of material and social progress is the free market. The market economy, driven by the accumulated expressions of individual economic choices, is the only economic system that preserves and enhances individual liberty. Any other economic system, regardless of its intended pragmatic benefits, undermines our fundamental rights as free people.

1. Protect the Constitution

Require each bill to identify the specific provision of the Constitution that gives Congress the power to do what the bill does. (82.03%)

2. Reject Cap & Trade

Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise consumer prices, and weaken the nation’s global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures. (72.20%)

3. Demand a Balanced Budget

Begin the Constitutional amendment process to require a balanced budget with a two-thirds majority needed for any tax hike. (69.69%)

4. Enact Fundamental Tax Reform

Adopt a simple and fair single-rate tax system by scrapping the internal revenue code and replacing it with one that is no longer than 4,543 words—the length of the original Constitution. (64.90%)

5. Restore Fiscal Responsibility  & Constitutionally Limited Government in Washington

Create a Blue Ribbon taskforce that engages in a complete audit of federal agencies and programs, assessing their Constitutionality, and identifying duplication, waste, ineffectiveness, and agencies and programs better left for the states or local authorities, or ripe for wholesale reform or elimination due to our efforts to restore limited government consistent with the US Constitution’s meaning. (63.37%)

6. End Runaway Government Spending

Impose a statutory cap limiting the annual growth in total federal spending to the sum of the inflation rate plus the percentage of population growth. (56.57%)

7. Defund, Repeal, & Replace Government-run Health Care

Defund, repeal and replace the recently passed government-run health care with a system that actually makes health care and insurance more affordable by enabling a competitive, open, and transparent free-market health care and health insurance system that isn’t restricted by state boundaries. (56.39%)

8. Pass an ‘All-of-the-Above” Energy Policy

Authorize the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries and reduce regulatory barriers to all other forms of energy creation, lowering prices and creating competition and jobs. (55.51%)

9. Stop the Pork

Place a moratorium on all earmarks until the budget is balanced, and then require a 2/3 majority to pass any earmark. (55.47%)

10. Stop the Tax Hikes

Permanently repeal all tax hikes, including those to the income, capital gains, and death taxes, currently scheduled to begin in 2011. (53.38%)