Guest Editorial: The Tea Party Needs To Stay Away From Union Confrontations

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As a Tea Party member, I'd like to recommend that Tea Party people across the country stay away from these union protests.

Confrontation is exactly what these union people want, and having Tea Party people show up at these rallies is not going to help anything.

We can show our support for these governors and legislators by e-mail. contributions, Facebook and most importantly the voting booth, but please do not give these mental midgets the satisfaction of showing up to either protest their rallies or support the State governments.

I think we all know nothing good can come from a confrontation with these people and the mainstream media would take any opportunity to try and blame the Tea Party for any violence that occurred or try and show Tea Party people as the instigators.

These unions are doing a fine job all by themselves showing America just what they stand for and their greed and unwillingness to compromise in hard times. They are showing everyone their contempt for the American taxpayer, and their "entitlement" attitude - that for some reason we owe them regardless of the state of our economy.

Hopefully other states that do not have right to work laws will enact those, and hopefully other states will take the hard line stance of Ohio where they are basically going to abolish public sector unions if the vote passes. The time has come to take our Country back - we made a good start in November and we must continue the fight through 2012 and 2014.

Keith Bryant
Houston, Texas