Open Range Wrap UP

Open Range Wrap UP

Susan Allen
Susan Allen

 

I’m Susan Allen it’s Friday welcome to Open Range Wrap Up . What is it about Northwest moms and the Tea Party movement? The Bald Eagle is ruffling feathers of birdwatchers,and our country set a new record, trust me it’s nothing to be proud about. Stay tuned for these stories after the break. Like good coffee the tea party movement is said to have begun in Seattle when thirty year old Keli Carender (now called the mother of the movement) organized a rally over the stimulus  package . TheTea Party resonates with  women not only in Seattle, Boise and Portland but the rural northwest as well. Recently poles show fifty five percent of tea party supporters are women, and in the words of talk show host Dana Loesch, , “Motherhood has become a political act” . How does that differ from soccer moms? Well tea party moms are organized at state, local and national levels and they’re empowered by the “don’t mess with my kids rhetoric ” You won't find a donkey or elephant as a mascot  rather one familiar to all of us out west, a mother  black bear. It’s  the “  Moma Bear Mentality”, the desire to protect the future of our children and grandchildren that is attracting women in droves to the tea party movement. Ah there is another "movement" emerging  in Seattle, bird watchers are becoming anti-eagle. They’re outraged that Bald Eagles are attacking Blue Heron nesting areas. Blue herons are known as meditative laid back creatures while Bald Eagles are proud aggressive symbols of our country. Might there be  lesson in all of this? Finally,  a new milestone, nearly forty million Americans are now  on food stamps, a record ,and an increase of two hundred and sixty thousand from January. did I mention we have an obesity epidemic among our pooras well.  Only in America ? I’m Susan Allen    
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