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Tea Party conservatives are starting to target specifics with their protests and will take on ecologic business regulation Friday at the next major rally
on the steps of the California Capitol in Sacramento.
The Nevada County Tea Party Patriots are packing three buses with 168 people and expecting thousands more farmers, ranchers, loggers, miners and others to join them from across the state for the noon “March on Sacramento, Save California from Big Government Eco-regulation,” rally.
“We have no more (bus) seats available, but I know a lot more (from Nevada County) are taking their own vehicles and the light rail,” said Stan Meckler, a county tea party principal. “Get there early because parking will be at a premium,” around the Capitol.
Those departing on the busses will not leave from the Broad Street bridge in Nevada City as they did April 15 for the first Tea Party rally, Meckler said.
The busses will begin boarding at 9 a.m. at the Bethel Church, at 13010 Highway 49 off Christian Life Way just south of Grass Valley. All busses will leave by 9:30 a.m., not 10 a.m. as earlier stated, Meckler said.
Assemblyman Dan Logue (R-Linda) will speak at the event, touting his bill AB118, a planned repeal of AB32, the law passed in 2006 that will impose more greenhouse gas emission limits on businesses beginning 2011.
“It was my first bill,” Logue said, introduced because, “I really foresaw the economic future of California collapsing,” through the emissions bill and other regulations on business.
Logue predicted AB32 would cost California one million jobs and a $180 billion loss in gross output, should it go into force.
“No other state is doing this,” Logue said. “Basically, we're creating jobs for other states.”
The Web site for the event, sac828.org, lists members of a coalition sponsoring the event, which includes the Tea Party Patriots of California, co-led by Meckler's son, Nevada County resident Mark Meckler. Also on the list is the Nevada City logging firm Robinson Enterprises.
“It's really about big government in general,” Mark Meckler said Tuesday about the rally. “The productive people of California are sick and tired of government being on their backs and a lot of that is eco-tyranny.” Robinson Enterprises officials could not be reached for comment.
Meckler said the rally would include 300 to 400 big rig trucks used as symbolic gesture of business strength.
Rally speakers will also target decisions to protect the Delta smelt with waters that are no longer going to San Joaquin Valley agriculture. Tea Party members allege it is reducing state food production and forcing families to lose farms.
“All this to protect a minnow,” the event Web site said. Timber firms are also being forced out of business by the regulations, the site added.
Although Tea Party participants started out as a group coming together to protest wanton government spending and taxes in general, the group is beginning to pick targets, like ecologic law blocking business.
The state Tea Party Website www.californiateapartypatriots.com now has a banner headline saying, “Stop Nationalized Health Care,” and urges people to go to town hall meetings to oppose President Obama's health plan.
To contact Senior Staff Writer Dave Moller, e-mail dmoller@theunion.com or call 477-4237.
on the steps of the California Capitol in Sacramento.
The Nevada County Tea Party Patriots are packing three buses with 168 people and expecting thousands more farmers, ranchers, loggers, miners and others to join them from across the state for the noon “March on Sacramento, Save California from Big Government Eco-regulation,” rally.
“We have no more (bus) seats available, but I know a lot more (from Nevada County) are taking their own vehicles and the light rail,” said Stan Meckler, a county tea party principal. “Get there early because parking will be at a premium,” around the Capitol.
Those departing on the busses will not leave from the Broad Street bridge in Nevada City as they did April 15 for the first Tea Party rally, Meckler said.
The busses will begin boarding at 9 a.m. at the Bethel Church, at 13010 Highway 49 off Christian Life Way just south of Grass Valley. All busses will leave by 9:30 a.m., not 10 a.m. as earlier stated, Meckler said.
Assemblyman Dan Logue (R-Linda) will speak at the event, touting his bill AB118, a planned repeal of AB32, the law passed in 2006 that will impose more greenhouse gas emission limits on businesses beginning 2011.
“It was my first bill,” Logue said, introduced because, “I really foresaw the economic future of California collapsing,” through the emissions bill and other regulations on business.
Logue predicted AB32 would cost California one million jobs and a $180 billion loss in gross output, should it go into force.
“No other state is doing this,” Logue said. “Basically, we're creating jobs for other states.”
The Web site for the event, sac828.org, lists members of a coalition sponsoring the event, which includes the Tea Party Patriots of California, co-led by Meckler's son, Nevada County resident Mark Meckler. Also on the list is the Nevada City logging firm Robinson Enterprises.
“It's really about big government in general,” Mark Meckler said Tuesday about the rally. “The productive people of California are sick and tired of government being on their backs and a lot of that is eco-tyranny.” Robinson Enterprises officials could not be reached for comment.
Meckler said the rally would include 300 to 400 big rig trucks used as symbolic gesture of business strength.
Rally speakers will also target decisions to protect the Delta smelt with waters that are no longer going to San Joaquin Valley agriculture. Tea Party members allege it is reducing state food production and forcing families to lose farms.
“All this to protect a minnow,” the event Web site said. Timber firms are also being forced out of business by the regulations, the site added.
Although Tea Party participants started out as a group coming together to protest wanton government spending and taxes in general, the group is beginning to pick targets, like ecologic law blocking business.
The state Tea Party Website www.californiateapartypatriots.com now has a banner headline saying, “Stop Nationalized Health Care,” and urges people to go to town hall meetings to oppose President Obama's health plan.
To contact Senior Staff Writer Dave Moller, e-mail dmoller@theunion.com or call 477-4237.
