Armey Invades Pennsylvania: Former House Majority Leader Holds Tea Party For School Vouchers

Source: The Wall of Separation
May 16th, 2011
By Rob Boston

I’ve had occasion to hear followers of the Tea Party speak at Religious Right gatherings. To put it mildly, they seem to be very perturbed over government spending. They claim they want lower taxes, less spending and smaller government.

So what are they doing in Pennsylvania demanding that the state government create a massive new welfare program for religious and other private schools?

Dick Armey (remember him?) was in the Keystone State recently rallying the Tea Party faithful on behalf of a proposal to divert as much as $1 billion in taxpayer money into a voucher program. Armey’s group, FreedomWorks, is really turning up the heat. According to The Washington Post, Armey has personally lobbied legislators in Harrisburg and has appeared at events around the state.

Reported The Post, “The goal for FreedomWorks is two-fold: to keep activists engaged enough to enter 2012 with a grassroots network at least as strong as the one that played so dramatic a role last year; and to use that network right now to push newly elected conservatives to accomplish something while in power.”

Link: http://blog.au.org/2011/05/16/armey-invades-pennsylvania-former-house-majority-leader-holds-tea-party-for-school-vouchers/
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Have a nice Gettysburg ... Dick.

Dick...knowing her last name sounds like 'army'.

EDIT - actually that would make a great deathmetal band name - Dick Army.

EDIT II - yes, you knew there was. A Dick Army band does exist or did.

If a student decides to go to a different school, the original district is responsible for paying whatever the fuck the "chosen" district decides to charge for a year's "tuition", even if it is little more than babysitting. A lot of the GOPigs want to make the original district responsible for the cost of transportation as well. Talk about an inverse Robin Hood situation.

Give me a break! This whole tea party crap is a sham. Souped up by the right wingers and slavered over by right wing controlled media. Most of the tea party parade crowd couldn't even tell you what a voucher is.