Tea Party Convention: Schedule of Events
The Tea Party Midwest convention will include sessions led by former Fox commentator Glenn Beck, Andrew Breitbart and Republican Congressman Joe Walsh.
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The Tea Party is hosting its Midwest convention Friday, Sept. 30 and Saturday, Oct. 1 at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center & Hotel.
Patch will be covering the event live as it unfolds.
Tickets to the event are available online. The dinner with Glenn Beck is sold out. The event schedule is as follows:
FRIDAY
8 to 10 p.m.— Kick-off reception with Steven Crowder and Andrew Breitbart.
SATURDAY
8 to 8:45 a.m. — Breakfast with Dana Loesch.
9 to 9:50 a.m. — Breakout sessions on education reform; citizen journalism and video blogging; and growing a Tea Party group and fundraising.
10 to 10:50 a.m. — Breakout sessions on budget issues, healthcare reform and working with the media.
11 to 11:50 a.m. — Breakout sessions on the Second Amendment, the economy, a conversation with Tea Party leaders and using pop culture to influence politics.
Noon to 12:45 p.m. — Lunch with Republican Congressman Joe Walsh.
1 to 3 p.m. — Presidential candidates forum and straw poll.
7 to 9 p.m. — Dinner with former Fox commentator Glenn Beck.
shelbyanne
2:02 pm on Friday, September 30, 2011
Save America...Disrupt and Destroy Tea Party!
George Sibbett
9:08 am on Sunday, October 2, 2011
what a bunch of fkg retards. i am totally surprised that they were able to find their way
to the event.
Palatine Person
2:58 pm on Friday, September 30, 2011
Dinner with Glenn Beck would make me nauseous.
Kinkajou
4:38 pm on Friday, September 30, 2011
I am the Tea Party. I am tired of paying and paying taxes for waste and green silliness like Solyndera. I am common sense, God fearing and a good neighbor. I am a student of history and know that Socialism never works. How pathetic that the so called tolerant want my freedom of speech disrupted.
shelbyanne
1:01 am on Saturday, October 1, 2011
You are nuts...
shelbyanne
5:15 pm on Friday, September 30, 2011
Tea party terrorism is destroying the economy. Time to fight back. Destroy tea party!
Palatine Person
7:21 pm on Friday, September 30, 2011
I wonder how much money Joe Walsh is going to get for his appearance. Maybe he can use some of it to pay his past due child support.
Bob C
12:47 am on Saturday, October 1, 2011
The tea party is controlled by Republican Billionaires like the Koch Brothers who tell us what to think. Research it and see for yourself. They want larger tax cuts for themselves while this country drowns in debt. They also advocate cutting retirement and medical benefits for the middle class. If those tax cuts created jobs, they might be worth it. Tax cuts with no requirement for jobs creation and corporate cronyism are two of the larger problems this country faces that the Tea Party stands for. Check out Contract for the American Dream instead.
shelbyanne
1:09 am on Saturday, October 1, 2011
Tea party young bloods of 2012 are mostly all rich businessmen who want to keep wages low and end pollution control. They say they weren't elected to be popular. Justifying using hostile take over tactics to push their unwanted policies through. Bull...they were elected to represent the people. They don't care if they are unpopular. They can strong arm their plans through, then go back to their private lives.
United We Stand
1:15 pm on Saturday, October 1, 2011
Obama's Healthcare bill slashed 500 billion out of medicare. Most big companies, like GE and Bank of America, who niether one, paid one cent in taxes we're one of Obama's biggest donators. He did nothing to BP and bailout out corporations that should have filed BK like any other business. Obama and the democrats are just as bad as everyone else. You will only see change when the money is taken out of Washington, to buy out senetors and congressmen.
As for the unions...I know 2 people who are in the unions and they have about had it. They can't get work through the union and the union won't let them work somewhere else and they still have to pay union dues. They both want to quit. The union bosses are just as bad and crooked as the big money companies. They are all paying off washington and the ones that get stuck holding the bag is the middle class. Our state is in such big trouble, mostly because of union pensions and the paybacks for elections.
shelbyanne
5:02 am on Sunday, October 2, 2011
I'll stick a workers union. You can work for slave wages if you like. Who cares?
Bob C
12:50 am on Saturday, October 1, 2011
The organizations behind the tea party are anti-worker, anti-union, and exist to support the top 2%. They also support us continuing to spend 700 billion dollars a year on defense, 5 times the budget of China and around 15 times every one of our allies combined.
Bob C
12:50 am on Saturday, October 1, 2011
I think, therefore I am not Glenn Beck
cynthia
9:44 am on Saturday, October 1, 2011
why are people so opposed to a diffrent view point and new ideas for reform. I went to a seminar on doing business in Indonesia. The country where Obama grew up. They are booming and they have a very limited government interfrence into peoples lives. Funny I guess this didn't rub off on our President.
Many of the people reading the patch are PRO UNION and are looking to retire with full salary benefits from the backs of the rest of us.
FORGET IT..READ MY LIPS....FORGET IT...Change is comming..
Jack Steen
6:41 pm on Saturday, October 1, 2011
You probably liked the way babies and children were openly offered for sale for sex - one of the main reasons your TeaKlux Champion Rush LimpDrug likes to sexvacation there !
George Sibbett
9:12 am on Sunday, October 2, 2011
because they know how to vote, and that is all. but their ignorant votes can wreak
this country for a long time. look at who they elected in 2010! a bunch of incompetent
air heads. if the democrats would only get off their sorry asses and vote, it would not matter
George Sibbett
9:14 am on Sunday, October 2, 2011
this is dangerous situation when these nut casses can turn an election, there will
unintended dire consequences, such as shutting down our government every week