History of Liberty Township Tea Party Community Group (LTTP)

The Liberty Township Tea Party Group was established in the summer of 2009 after the Cincinnati Tea Party West Chester Meeting held at the Miami University Voice of America Learning Center (MU-VOALC) on June 26th, 2009. On this evening individuals were asked to step forward and provide leadership to form Community Tea Party organizations in their respective communities. Four individuals, from Liberty Township, took that step to form and provide leadership for the Liberty Township Tea Party, a Community Group of the Cincinnati Tea Party which operates under the Cincinnati Groups 527 Political Action Charter. The following Saturday morning the organizing committee met with a member of the Cincinnati Tea Party for a breakfast meeting where we went over what would be required to form a Community Group. All agreed that we had the information that we needed to start the group and we scheduled a follow-up meeting for the next day, Sunday, to start what would become the Liberty Township Tea Party organization. The Cincinnati Tea Party supplied us with a start-up list of Liberty Township email addresses which was a big help. We printed up a flyer and went around to several Liberty Township neighborhoods announcing our upcoming meeting. We had identified a meeting space in the Liberty Township Fire Department that was available at no charge. Not knowing how many Patriots would show up we were quite worried about our first meeting, but the fire chief offered to move the trucks out of the large parking bay for our meeting in case we had more than the 30 allowed in the meeting room (fire code don’t you know!). Problem solved! The organizing team planned the initial gathering and developed an agenda. In the meantime, one of the organizing committee members is an IT professional by trade, and took on the task of developing a website for the Liberty Township Tea Party. We all pitched in and developed content for the site and by the time of our first meeting we had at least the beginnings of a website for people to visit. So, here we are, it’s our first meeting and ninety-four (94) patriots show up far exceeding our expectations so we just moved everyone to the truck bay where there was plenty of room . Since then we are holding meetings at a different location where we have more room to accommodate more Patriots. Our second meeting drew over one hundred and fifty patriots and in a few days we will hold our third meeting and once again, we are not sure how many will be there but we are confident it will be a large, maybe larger, crowd. We are forming volunteer committees to help manage this growing group and we need help on many critical issues. Our website has developed very nicely and you will find it at Liberty Township Tea Party
That is the history of our young group to date. We are less than two months old. We have over two hundred members and we are the fastest growing Tea Party group in the Region.