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LOOK AT PEOPLE, NOT PARTIES, SAYS FLETCHER
Abigail Adams Project Founder Lights Up Stage at Tea Party Convention
In a moving speech at the February 4-6 Nashville Tea Party Convention, Kimberly Fletcher, founder of Homemakers for America and the Abigail Adams Project, related her experience the day of the 2004 election, standing with her kids outside a polling place in a predominantly minority precinct.
Fletcher described how she and the children stood in the rain in their patriot-era dress with homemade signs and were ridiculed by the locals. She told the children to stow the signs and costumes, but that they would not leave. Then Fletcher simply passed out to any who would accept them a voter guide, showing positions of the candidates without mention of party affiliation. It was a powerful thing. Fletcher described the shock several voters expressed, learning that the incumbent they had supported unthinkingly for years held abhorrent views on certain issues. It was then that the activist homemaker realized the full power of the Abigail Adams Project, a nationwide effort to provide voters with unbiased information about candidates, without mention of political party.
The mother of eight puts it this way: "I want us to stop looking at parties and start looking at people. ... We're looking for statesmen, people who put their country ahead of themselves." See a 2 minute video of Fletcher here.
Fletcher’s belief, that the quality of the candidate matters more than his or her party, is what moved another patriot, Tim Cox, to found Get Out of Our House, or GOOOH (pronounced GO) in 2006. GOOOH is a plan to replace members of the House of Representatives with citizen representatives, which has gained the endorsement of Fletcher’s Abigail Adams Project. Kimberly Fletcher sums it up in these words: “The tea parties are not protesting a party; they are protesting an oppressive, out-of-control government, and both parties are guilty.” To learn more, go to the Abigail Adams Project or see Tim Cox explaining GOOOH on a December Fox & Friends show.
