9/12 Under the Arch: What You Need to Know

All you need to know for the big weekend. Check for more info at the STLTP website or the TPP site.

The basic info:

Overlook Stage at the Gateway Arch

Jefferson National Expansion Memorial

St. Louis, MO
Sunday September 12th

12:00 pm – 4 pm

12:00 pm: Pre-show speeches and music as the crowd gathers
1:00 pm: Rally begins at the Gateway Arch
4:00 pm: Rally ends at the Gateway Arch

Emcee Jenny Beth Martin: Co-founder and National Coordinator, Tea Party Patriots

Rep. Steve King, IA-5

Rep. Tom Price

Dick Morris

Dana Loesch, Host: The Dana Show / Co-founder St. Louis Tea Party

Bill Hennessy, Co-founder St. Louis Tea Party

Dr Gina Loudon, Radio Host, St. Louis Tea Party

Andre Harper, Author. Speaker. Patriot. AndreHarper.com

Stephanie Rubach, move-on-up.org

Mike Flynn, Editor-in-Chief BigGovernment

Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit

Dave Glover, Host, The Dave Glover Show KFTK 97.1 FM

Jamie Allman, Host, Allman in the Morning KFTK 97.1 FM

Randy Tobler, Host, Vital Signs KFTK 97.1 FM

Michael Prell, author of Underdogma (Due out Jan 2011)

Michelle Moore, Smart Girl Politics

Melissa Ortiz, National Co-chair Can-Do Conservatives

Andrew Ian Dodge, Maine Coordinator Tea Party Patriots, Dodgeblogium

Sammy Kershaw Country Music Star, Protect Our Coastline

Krista Branch ”I am America” KristaBranch.com

Laura Alter Star Spangled Banner Laura Alter Music.com

Founding Fathers (House Band) Made up of 4 Closeted Conservatives in the Music Industry

Kim Massie One of the most recognizable voices in St. Louis.

Neil E. Boyd Winner of America’s Got Talent, from Sikeston, MO

VENDORS, GROUPS click here

WANT TO VOLUNTEER? sign up here (more volunteer info here)

DRURY HOTEL SPECIAL click here

Parking:

MetroLink (Event Stop is Arch/Lacledes Landing)
Park and Ride Lots St. Louis
Park and Ride Lots IL
Link to MetroLink Google Map with all stops

WANT TO BE PART OF K&N’S 9/11 MEMORIAL? click here

From Bill:

We are less than 2 weeks away from the last major Tea Party event before the historic November 2 Election.  St. Louis has been selected as the “Gateway to November.”  We want to make our event a difference-maker in the mid-term election.

Will you help?

First, please tell everyone you know.  Ask them to tell their friends, too.  Ask them to check out the official event page: http://www.recyclegovernment.org/stlouis.  Ask them to Like our facebook fan page and register on the event page.  If they’re not getting our newsletter, tell them they can choose between Daily or Weekly (Monday a.m.) delivery.

Second, you can help cover the cost of this event by sponsoring yourself or others for just $3.

Third, you can help greatly by selling food or merchandise in a booth a table.  Just fill out this form, and we’ll get in touch with you.

Want to help online?

• Sign up on the Facebook event page
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• And REGISTER yourself and everyone in your house to vote.

MORE info forthcoming – stay tuned!

*Reboot Congress‘ outstanding video on 9/12:

TPM Distances Themselves from Their Blogger and Carnahan Firebomb Suspect

TPM distances themselves from Chris Powers:

Powers has not been charged in the arson case. In a phone interview this morning with TPMmuckraker, Powers denied having any involvement with what local reports have described as a “fire bombing.”

“I’m innocent,” Powers said. “I was at home when Congressman Carnahan’s office was fired on. I have nothing to do with it.”

In the early morning hours of Aug. 17, someone broke a back window in Carnahan’s St. Louis campaign office and set a small fire, which caused minor damage in the office. Police arrested a suspect some hours later. They released him the next day, but have not divulged the suspect’s name. Police say it is up to the prosecutor’s office whether to issue a warrant; without it they can’t hold a suspect or release his name.

He says he didn’t, Carnahan says he did. Some lingering questions remain: who ID’d Powers as being the suspect? What of the rumors that he took a polygraph? If Powers did do it, was it because he was a disgruntled employee and lastly, if he was a disgruntled employee crazy enough to try to set a congressman’s office on fire, note that he worked as a canvasser. WTH kind of people are showing up on St. Louis doorsteps on behalf of the Carnahan campaign?

As several blogs have reported, Powers wrote a reader blog at TPMCafe under the name Ripper McCord. (Any TPM reader can create a blog and comment on the site, and Powers is not affiliated with TPM.)

Sure, that’s well and good, but this wasn’t a comments section, it was a reader blog hosted by TPM upon which TPM considered the content “affiliated” enough to (still) sell ads:

No, I don’t think TPM is liable or anything of the sort for the incident, rather, two other things come to mind:

1) If one of their bloggers wasn’t paid and is being framed by a congressman for a federal offense, you’d think they would come to his defense. If this is the case, I feel bad for the dude and this is just one more reason why there needs to be a federal investigation into this incident.

2) If Carnahan is correct and this is a case of a disgruntled employee, another Carnahan campaigner who has engaged in unlawful (Javonne Spitz, et al.) behavior while working for the campaign, then I think there is enough of a pattern to ask whether the campaigns selections of campaign workers are safe choices, not just for his campaign but the community as whole if these people are out there engaging voters. It’s also a reflection upon TPM for not condemning the actions of a writer who provides content, on which they sell ads, for them for free. Make the analogy between TPM not paying Powers and Carnahan allegedly not paying Powers yourself.

Regardless, it’s an incredibly bummer of a story any way you look at it. Who to believe?

Carnahan Confirms Powers Firebomb Story

Rep. Russ Carnahan confirmed that former staffer Chris Powers was the individual who “firebombed” his campaign office, not tea party activists as some in the local media had reported:

Congressman Russ Carnahan held a press conference confirming that the person St. Louis police arrested and released for last week’s firebombing of his campaign headquarters did in fact work for his re-election campaign.

Now that Carnahan has ended speculation, I expect to see a full apology from local “blogger” Chad Garrison apologizing to activists for the disparaging reporting as well as a full retraction for the falsehood that activists left a coffin in Carnahan’s yard during the spring, a story proven false by oh, facts and also Betsey Bruce’s reporting which showed, on camera, the coffin in the garage of one Bill Hennessy. I won’t hold my breath.

Previously:

*UPDATE: Carnahan “Firebombing” an Inside Job?

Prosecutor Lets Carnahan Firebomb Suspect Go?

*Carnahan says that Powers “failed to do his job.” True? Perhaps Powers will take to the Internet and clarify.

*UPDATE: Carnahan “Firebombing” an Inside Job?

Jim Hoft leads with the story that the Carnahan “firebombing?” The one about which I had many questions because it didn’t add up? It may have been an inside job.

The suspect was reportedly a disgruntled progressive activist employed by Russ Carnahan. An unnamed source familiar with the case released the information. Suspect Chris Powers reportedly was upset because he did not get paid so he firebombed the Carnahan finance offices at 2 in the morning.
What a complete shock.

Here’s alleged suspect and Chris Powers raising Cain at Carnahan’s infamous August 2009 townhall:

He’s said to also blog anonymously at Talking Points Memo and described himself as a former journalist. Sources say that Powers has allegedly denied the charges and that the FBI were/are involved. I really hope, for Powers’ sake, that it really is as a listener suggested: just a case of a Carnahan staffer having a bong mishap.

Did the Carnahan camp know this possible truth and consent by silence to the media’s attempt to trump this up as a tea party incident? If this is true, doesn’t this make the fourth incident in which people associated with the Carnahan campaign have run afoul of the law and have engaged in illegal behavior? Why didn’t the Russ Carnahan campaign correct the narrative of the local alternative weekly and Jake Wagman’s subtle suggestion that it was a tea partier? Because he’s in the campaign of his life and is desperate for anything, even the sympathy vote?

The alternative weekly’s heinously irresponsible “blogger” – who once admitted, in print, his inability to vet his posts because he lacked the skills to write ten posts a day and be accurate – and the daily’s Jake Wagman need to issue retractions and clarifications, respectively, and the Russ Carnahan campaign needs to issue an apology for allowing this charade to be pinned on the very people whom he seeks to represent.

Following this story and will update as it develops.

*Adam Sharp has video of his asking Rep. Carnahan about Chris Powers:

and more footage of the infamous August 2009 townhall.

*On further thought – if this is all true I hope Powers gets the help and assistance he needs to not be used in such a manner by a political campaign.

Palin Endorses Vicky Hartzler in MO-4

Excerpt:

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin threw her support behind Vicky Hartzler today in her bid to unseat veteran Congressman Ike Skelton.

“I am honored to receive Sarah Palin’s endorsement and to partner with her to fight for the future of our country,” said Hartzler. “I hope citizens who enthusiastically supported Sarah Palin in 2008 will get behind our campaign as we work to take 4th District conservative values to Washington.”

Hartzler is up against Ike “I Hate Town Halls” Skelton.