TheState
11-24-2010, 07:58 PM
I wrote a quick article for the Student Free Press Association a couple weeks ago. It is just a quick account of my political journey and how the tea party has progressed in Ohio. I thought I'd share it here too.
How a pseudo-socialist college student became a Tea Partier
It was December 16, 2007, the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. I was at home, watching online, as a group of about fifty Ron Paul supporters braved the cold Ohio winter to meet in downtown Columbus and throw cardboard crates into the river. As a far left Democrat at the time, I couldn’t quite understand what throwing a box labeled “big government” into a river was accomplishing, but I slowly realized that our anger over certain issues, like the Federal Reserve or the Patriot Act, was shared.
Read the rest here! (http://www.studentfreepress.net/archives/4356)
PS - I've also started my own twitter account this week (I used to do the twitter account for YAL at Ohio State), add me! http://twitter.com/DGrabaskas
How a pseudo-socialist college student became a Tea Partier
It was December 16, 2007, the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. I was at home, watching online, as a group of about fifty Ron Paul supporters braved the cold Ohio winter to meet in downtown Columbus and throw cardboard crates into the river. As a far left Democrat at the time, I couldn’t quite understand what throwing a box labeled “big government” into a river was accomplishing, but I slowly realized that our anger over certain issues, like the Federal Reserve or the Patriot Act, was shared.
Read the rest here! (http://www.studentfreepress.net/archives/4356)
PS - I've also started my own twitter account this week (I used to do the twitter account for YAL at Ohio State), add me! http://twitter.com/DGrabaskas