Up North Progressive

Mark your calendars and get your tickets, the big powwow at Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort in Mount Pleasant is coming and you don’t want to miss it. The date for the event is January 9th and 10th.

Before you think attending this event will offer an opportunity to experience the spiritual culture of Native Americans, you should know this particular powwow has nothing to do with any of that. This Michigan powwow is for members of the tea party as they celebrate their ‘victory’ in Michigan:

The PowWow is an event where patriots come together from across the state to network, inspire, and motivate each other; get informed; and discuss important issues. The theme is “Going On Offense” in the battle for freedom in Michigan!

The organizer for this event is state legislator-elect from the 80th district, Cindy Gamrat. She’s the founder of the Plainwell Patriots and the Huntington tea party. She hates gays, Muslims, common core and Obamacare like all good patriots, and now that more tea baggers are on their way to Lansing, it’s time to get tough on the state. A two day convention is just the thing they need now that the Michigan tea party thinks voter apathy gave them any kind of momentum back in November. Other noted future state legislators attending the event include Todd Courser and Gary Glenn.

The main theme for the Michigan PowWow is “Going on Offense.” That’s right, it’s time to show those RINOs and liberals who’s in charge  – through keynote speakers and breakout sessions.

The three main convention offerings so far are the only agenda available on the Michigan PowWow website. They include such tantalizing titles as:

“Inner-Party Politics – Committees and Conventions: stories, strategy and tactics to bring the GOP back to its platform.” – this will include keynote speakers Dave Agema and John Yob, where they will rehash the fiasco that was the 2014 Michigan Republican Convention in Novi. Because every election the tea party doesn’t win is clearly stolen from them.

“2015 Legislative Plan – How to advance the Conservative Agenda.” – Now that more tea party members are in the state legislature, there’s a massive social conservative agenda to ram down the state’s throat while screaming taxes are too high if anyone pays a single cent. Complimentary wool to pull over your eyes when you need to pretend one doesn’t require the other to enforce said tea party agenda will be provided.

“2016 Elections and Beyond – Getting the Grassroots ready to be the Constitutional Conservative wave.” – Because 2016 is coming and everyone knows what that means – get used to saying President Clinton again. This is the title for the yet to be named breakout sessions that are supposed to occur for the rest of the convention.

Sponsors for the event include Mackinac Center, The John Birch Society, Americans For Prosperity and Rick Santorum’s Patriot Voices. Frothy!

This sounds like way too much fun and excitement packed into one weekend. It’s ironic these people claim they are fighting a battle for freedom in Michigan, yet their agenda is all about restriction – Restricting a woman’s right to choose, restricting who is allowed to get married, restricting the right for workers to collectively bargain with employers, abolishing the right for anyone but a fire and brimstone breathing Christian to worship freely, taking away health care coverage for millions of Americans and returning us back to the for-profit ponzi scheme health insurance we used to suffer under.

Perhaps four years under Dick DeVos’s Money Rick Snyder and his failed state policies are not enough, two years of tea baggers running this state into the ground may be just what Michigan needs to get more people motivated and involved in fighting the insanity that is about to take hold of our state. They’re not wasting time getting started, and neither should we.