TEA Party hosts town hall

By Trey Youngdahl

We the People TEA Party is hosting a town hall, giving the citizens of Polk County the opportunity to openly speak to political candidates. 

We the People TEA Party was founded in 2008-2009 out of the frustrations associated with taxation. The acronym ‘TEA’ stands for ‘Taxed Enough Already.” This organization is a non-partisan grassroots movement that calls awareness to issues that may challenge what they would consider the security, sovereignty, or domestic tranquility of our city, state, and/or nation.

Every two years, the group puts on an event to focus their efforts on positive political discourse. This year, they have decided to hold a town hall for citizens to meet and speak with political figures on a state and municipal level. 

“Our purpose is to bring these candidates to Mena, Arkansas so that the local citizens can get out here to get eye to eye with these candidates so that they can ask the questions that they want answered,” said TEA Party President Don Cloud Davis. “These candidates are asking for one of the most precious things that we have—and that is our vote. They’re asking us to trust them. We elect someone and trust them to go to Little Rock or D.C. and represent us in the manner in which we thought they would. If they don’t, that’s on us.” 

The town hall will be held at the Ouachita Center on the University of Arkansas Rich Mountain Campus on Feb. 26 from 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. with no cover charge. The event will also live music, as well as an open meet and greet and Q&A with the 20 candidates scheduled to participate. 

To get involved with We the People Tea Party, find them on Facebook at We The People Tea Party. You can also attend their open-invitation meetings, which are every fourth Monday of the month at Papa’s Mexican Cafe in Mena.

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