Give Us Liberty (25 page)

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“We overheard people talking . . .”: E-mail submitted to FreedomWorks “Why I Marched” initiative.

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“I will be fifty-one years old . . .”: E-mail submitted to FreedomWorks “Why I Marched” initiative.

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“The huge, polite, focused crowd was like a fresh wind . . .”: E-mail submitted to FreedomWorks “Why I Marched” initiative.

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“Both parties seem to be . . .”: Janet Hook, “New York Race at Epicenter of a GOP Mutiny,”
Los Angeles Times,
October 27, 2009.

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“This is not a good year . . .”: This and all other quotes regarding the poll are from “CNN Poll: Anti-incumbent Fever at Record High,” CNN.com, February 24, 2010.

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“. . . public servants end-of-job counseling . . .”:
Grandma's Not Shovel-Ready: Signs from 9/12 and the Tea Parties of 2009
(Wilmington, Del.: Let Freedom Ring Publishing, 2010).

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“. . . channel this tidal shift in American public opinion . . .”: Mark Tapscott, “Tea Party Leaders are Wasting Opportunity to Replace Congress,”
Washingon Examiner
, September 3, 2009.

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“sign up for your local political party . . .”: Erick Erickson, “Put Down the Protest Signs and Pick Up the Campaign Signs,” RedState.com, September 2, 2009, http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/09/02/put-down-the-protest-signs-and-pick-up-the-campaign-signs/.

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“Would you guys knock off an incumbent Republican . . .”: Chris Matthews, interview with Matt Kibbe,
Hardball,
MSNBC December 10, 2009.

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In 1912, the Progressive Party was formed: James Chace,
1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs—The Election That Changed the Country
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), 168.

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thirteen U.S. House members in office: Amos R. E. Pinchot and Helene Maxwell Hooker,
History of the Progressive Party, 1912–1916
(New York: New York University Press, 1958).

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“The Year of the Woman”: http://emilyslist.org/who/history/index.html.

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700,000 donating members: http://cdn.moveonpac.org/content/pdfs/onepageaboutus.pdf.

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“. . . the face of power in America”: Andrea Seabrook, “Powerful PAC: EMILY's List Turns 25,”
Morning Edition,
NPR, April 30, 2010.

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“companies that have been awarded taxpayers' money . . .”: “TARP Recipients Paid Out $114 Million for Politicking Last Year,” OpenSecrets.org, February 4, 2009, http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2009/02/tarp-recipients-paid-out-114-m.html.

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“Even in the best economic times . . .”: Ibid.

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“The taxpayers are a vast group . . .”: Mancur Olson,
The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups,
rev. ed. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971/1965), 165–66.

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“The small-government candidate in the Republican Party . . .”: Adam Nagourney and Jeremy W. Peters, “GOP Moderate, Pressed by Right, Abandons Race,”
New York Times,
November 1, 2009, A1.

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“Dede is more liberal than the Democrat”: Janet Hook, “New York Race at Epicenter of a GOP Mutiny,”
Los Angeles Times,
October 27, 2009.

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She was in third place: Daily Kos / Research 2000 NY-23 Poll, http://www.dailykos.com/statepoll/2009/10/28/NY/408.

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blaming the “hate and lies and the deceitfulness”: Michelle Breidenbach, “Dede Scozzafava Says ‘Hate, Lies' Wore Her Down,” Syracuse.com, http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/11/dede_scozzafava_says_hate_lies.html.

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“. . . I am writing to let you know . . .”: http://watertowndailytimes.com.

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“Ms. Scozzafava fit the model of candidate . . .”: Nagourney and Peters, “GOP Moderate, Pressed by Right.”

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“I mean, when you have parents asking neighbors . . .”: Matt Clemente, e-mail message to Adam Brandon, April 12, 2010.

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“In 2010 all politics are national”: Rachel Martin, interview with Rick Barber,
Good Morning America,
January 24, 2010, http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=9647848.

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“Florida will be one of the clearest tests . . .”: E. J. Dionne Jr., “A Florida Test for the GOP,”
Washington Post
, May 14, 2009.

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“an inspiring leader for the next generation . . .”: “Former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey Endorses Marco Rubio for U.S. Senate,” July 14, 2009, http://www.marcorubio.com/former-u-s-house-majority-leader-dick-armey-endorses-marco-rubio-for-u-s-senate.

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“It is a damn outrage”: David Brooks,
Meet the Press,
May 9, 2010.

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“Pick the target, freeze it . . .”: Saul Alinsky,
Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals
(New York: Random House, 1971; New York: Vintage Books, 1989), 130.

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Hayek's weighty notion: “spontaneous order”: F. A. Hayek,
The Constitution of Liberty
(1960; repr., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978).

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“Which of these systems . . .”: F. A. Hayek,
The Use of Knowledge in Society in Individualism and Economic Order
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948, 1980), 79.

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“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences . . .”: Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 23 December 1791. The Thomas Jefferson Papers, Series 1: General Correspondence, 1651–1827, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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“We can't give people a choice . . .”: Personal recollection of Dick Armey.

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“I don't expect politicians to solve anybody's problems . . .”: Jann Wenner interview with Bob Dylan, “The Modern Times of Bob Dylan: A Legend Comes to Grips with His Iconic Status,”
Rolling Stone
, September 7, 2006.

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“Our own selves”: Ibid.

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“No, these are my people, Americans”: Brent Baker, “White NBC Reporter Confronts Black Man at Tea Party Rally: ‘Have You Ever Felt Uncomfortable?' ”
NewsBusters.org
, April 16, 2010.