Former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown on the Tea Party movement and Sarah Palin speech controversy

[alp227]

In his weekly column "Willie's World", former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown wrote today about the Tea Party movement and controversy over Sarah Palin's planned commencement speech at California State University at Stainslaus.

On the Tea Party:

The Tea Party movement may look like a badly needed energizer for California's Republican Party, but I think in the end it will do the GOP more damage than good.

Basically, the Tea Partiers are the same collection of conservatives who have always been on the right fringe of the party - only now, they have a hero in Sarah Palin and a target in Barack Obama.

Palin:

"Palingate," the flap over the missing contract for Palin's speaking fee at the CSU Stanislaus Foundation's fundraiser, would never have been a story at all if the foundation had handled it correctly.

From the start, the foundation should have candidly said what it was paying her. If it was $100,000, then say it. There is no such thing as "confidentiality" when it comes to public institutions, even if the group in question is a foundation that takes no public money.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/18/BAEP1CVHCJ.DTL

[JohnWxy]

1. The Tea Party also has Fox News Netw to make them a "movement"

[Bitwit1234]

2. You know Peter Pan...well that reminds me of the tea bags they just don't know how to grow up.

What group of people over 65 mostly run around the country wearing costumes from the 1700's AND don't even know that the costumes stand for. I suppose they want a permanent Halloween Party. Give em bags and let em collect their candy.