Some time ago, I wrote a Diary Entry about the disturbing discovery that all of the so-called "Cincinnati Tea Party" organizers are actually from various suburbs around the city. In fact, some don't even reside within the same county, and one hails from across the river in Kentucky.
Yet they want to bring their silly "petition" to my city hall, and waste the time of my police department which must police their gathering rather than take care of more important work.
I promised to follow up with links, so here you are.
All of them are listed here:
http://www.cincinnatiteaparty.org/...
First, there is Mike Wilson. He's become somewhat a celebrity recently, thanks to this Cincinnati Enquirer article. A key piece of information here is the following quote:
Six weeks ago, Mike Wilson was just a regular guy, sitting at his kitchen table in Springfield Township steaming over taxes and fuming over government bailouts and stimulus packages.
To confirm, here is the Hamilton County Auditor link to his house, which is clearly listed in the "SPRINGFIELD TWP" appraisal area. The cincinnatiteaparty.org domain is registered to Mike using the same address.
Next, there is Justin Binik-Thomas. He claims that the government is bailing out too many people who don't want to work. I'm sorry Justin, I'll bet the vast majority of those 600,000+ that filed last month really wanted to keep working.
The very same article states he lives in Deer Park. Sure enough, his home is right here in Deer Park. Again, not living within the city of Cincinnati.
On to Brian Willis, who was a bit more difficult to track down. He happens to be a member of the local Glenn Beck meetup group. Additionally, he was a contributor to Bush-Cheney 2004. Incidentally, this makes him quite personally responsible for much of the mess that we are in, including the Bailouts. By 2004, Bush had already proven himself to be the "Big Government" president. Incidentally, his address is listed, and he lives out in the eastern suburbs in clermont county. Again, not within the city limits, and not even within the same county (though right on the border).
On the member bios page, it clearly states that Jason Crawford comes up from Kentucky to support his part in the protest organization.
Finally, Harald Ziegler, an immigrant from Germany and small business owner lives out in Milford, OH, an eastern suburb in Clermont county. This information can be gleaned by searching for "Harold Zieger" Clermont County Auditor's website. I've double-checked that it is, in fact, correct (first-name spelling aside), as his company does business at the very same address.
This is becoming less and less a movement against "big government", and more simply a movement against our government. I fully expect that, if the Conservatives are back in control, these organizers will go back to their lives ignorant of the government. Meanwhile their "small government party" will continue to promote the "national religion". It will continue to attempt to legislate what a woman can or can't do with her body. It will continue to legislate what dirty words are not allowed on the air. It will continue to ignore scientific reasoning and favor ideological arguments that profit the few.
Update: Since it came up in comments, I would just like to address a couple points. First of all, if you plan to do something malicious with the above information, consider that you would only serve to further the tea baggers' ideology by proving their claims that we're all a bunch of crazy liberals. This article isn't to draw attention to make it personal, but rather to express a trend. This was posted in response to a challenge to provide supporting data for claims made in an earlier diary, and I think that I have done that.
If you really want to jump on something, I suggest you take issue with Brian Willis' $500 contribution to Bush-Cheney in '04. I am pretty convinced that these are nothing more than a group of mainstream Republicans who are mad because Hamilton County went Blue. Anyone who lives in the area and knows the geographical voting patterns will also recognize that the residency question brought up earlier goes straight to the heart of this. They are all from popular, dwindling, Republican strongholds.