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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Tea Party Gears for Tax Day Rally on Menaul, Warns of Fake Signs
By Steve Williams
Journal Assistant Politics Editor
The Albuquerque Tea Party will hold its second annual tax day rally Thursday.
Organizers want to make sure that those who want to attend go to the right place, because signs not affiliated with the group have been appearing around the city promoting another rally location.
The Albuquerque Tea Party rally will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. on the sidewalks along both sides of Menaul NE between San Pedro and Wyoming. If enough people show up, the rally will stretch farther east on Menaul, said David Harris, an Albuquerque Tea Party organizer. "We hope to stretch all the way to Tramway," he said.
The erroneous signs say the rally will be held outside the Albuquerque offices of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service on Montgomery NE near San Mateo.
Some in the Albuquerque Tea Party believe that the bogus signs are being posted by opponents trying to discredit the movement. The signs started appearing a few days after a man crashed his plane into the IRS building in Austin, Texas, said Tina Carson, one of the organizers of the Albuquerque Tea Party.
"We don't know who they are, but we know they are anti-tea party," Carson said Tuesday. "We have nothing against the IRS, and we won't be at the IRS building."
The Albuquerque Tea Party supports fiscal responsibility and accountability, lower taxes and less government spending, Harris said.
Other tea party tax day rallies are scheduled for Santa Fe, Moriarty and other locations around the state.
For more information on the Albuquerque rally and other tea party tax day rallies in New Mexico, visit albuquerqueteaparty.com.
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