6 I The Lovell Chronicle I August 7, 2014
BY NATHAN OSTER
Rob DiLorenzo set the stage
for Saturday's Big Horn Basin
Tea Party picnic, reminding at-
tendees that the fundamental
mission of the movement is to get
voters to Take Education Action. ........................
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Guest speakers Paul Vallely,
a retired Army major and former .......................................................
Fox News military analyst, and .....
Ted Nugent, rock and roll's "Mo-
tor City Madman" and an outspo-
ken conservative in his own right,
did nothing to detract from that
message.
Taking turns at the mic, they
urged the Tea Party crowd esti-
mated to be between 200 and 300
strong to fight for conservative
causes and to recruit others to do
so as well -- not only with their
voices but also in the ballot booth.
Unlike past Tea Party pic-
nics in Emblem, when candidates
for federal, state and county took
turns speaking, this affair was
dominated by the two speakers,
each of whom spoke for 20 to 30
minutes before opening it up to
questions from the audience.
Big Horn County Sheriff Ken
Blackburn ended the afternoon by
swearing in Vallely and Nugent,
their hands raised, as honorary
sheriffs deputies.
The Big Horn Basin Tea Par-
ty invited Republican candidates
for federal, state and local offices.
U.S. Sons. Mike Enzi and
John Barrasso attended, albeit to-
ward the end of the event.
Rep. Cynthia Lummis was un-
able to attend, but was represent-
ed by her campaign manager.
Only one of the gubernatorial
candidates attended. Cindy Hill,
the current superintendent of pub-
lic instruction, manned a booth
and spoke with attendees. Nei-
ther incumbent Gov. Matt Mead
nor challenger Taylor Haynes
attended.
Also attending were Thomas
Bleming, who is running against
Enzi for the GOP nomination to
the U.S. Senate; Clark Stith, a
candidate for secretary of state;
and Sheryl Lain, a candidate for
state superintendent of public
instruction.
Among the county candidates
who attended were Michelle Burns
and Kim Adams, who are vying for
county attorney, as well as Joyce
Collins, who is mounting a Consti-
NATHAN OSTER
Paul Vallely, a retired Army
major and former Fox News
military analyst, was one
the guest speakers at the Big
Horn Basin Tea Party picnic
held on Saturday, Aug. 2, in
Emblem.
tution Party bid to unseat Elaine
Harvey in House District 26.
What all the attendees -- can-
didates and those who shelled out
up to $40 for a ticket -- heard
from the two speakers was great
concern about the direction of the
country.
"As Americans, we've been
taken down a road we never antic-
ipated," said Vallely, who chairs
the Stand Up America organiza-
tion. "But it's happened so quick-
ly, so rapidly, that in 2014, many
of us are still stunned by what is
happening in Washington, D.C."
Vallely said government has
grown too large -- 47 percent of
the federal government could be
done away with tomorrow and
wouldn't be missed, he said. He
called for the elimination of the
IRS and a more fair flat tax, as
well as the elimination of the Fed-
eral Reserve and the "tyrannical"
and "very inept" Environmental
Protection Agency.
"The biggest threat to Ameri-
ca right now is our government,"
he said. "Our inability to gov-
ern, our inability to change, par-
tisan politics and all the money.
The Republican establishment
is as bad as anyone. They won't
change. That's why we have to get
rid of them."
rev up
Vallely's strongest rhetoric
concerned the president and the
Democratic leaders in Congress.
"Obama should be impeached
and his national security team
replaced," he said.
He referred to the president
as a "coward" who looks weak in
the eyes of foreign leaders.
"(Russian President Vladi-
mir) Putin plays hardball...we
have a president who plays whif-
fleball," he said.
Vallely said Senate Majori-
ty Leader Harry Reid would be
"strung up against a wall" if Val-
lely was a senator. "I'd tell him,
'Harry, you've got 24 hours to
change, and if you don't, I'm going
to kick the hell out of you," said
Vallely. He immediately corrected
himself, saying he wouldn't con-
done physical violence. But the
point was that current senators
need to get tough on Reid.
Nugent, sporting his trade-
mark camouflage cowboy hat and
shirt, said he performed in his
6,500th concert this year and that
during the course of those "meet-
ings" with common folks, he's no-
ticed a big change in attitudes.
The Nuge, as he's known,
urged the Tea Partiers to be
more vocal.
"Each of you must know 100
people you can fix," he said.
Right now, conservatives are
losing the battle, he said.
"It isn't the enemy that's
winning, it's not the liberal,
mindless, soulless freedom hat-
ers ... it's that the good guys ar-
en't fighting," he said. "The curse
isn't Obama. It's those of us who
knew he was a community or-
ganizer/scammer, and that he
doesn't have the credentials to
drive my tour bus.
"He's a bad man, he rep-
resents Communism, he rep-
resents Socialism, and his his-
tory is ripe with anti-American,
anti-Constitution, anti-freedom.
Yes, we elected him. But he isn't
the enemy. Your friends who
didn't vote are."
Nugent said membership in
the National Rifle Association is
"the most simple statement of
freedom available to Americans.
To those in attendance who ar-
en't NRA members, Nugent said,
"Nancy Pelosi likes you."
"If you aren't in the NRA, you
aren't a freedom fighter."
Nugent said the left is wag-
ing war against him.
"They bus in protesters to
my concerts -- and most of them
are so stoned and delirious they
are still wearing their American
Communist badges," he said. "I
called them unclean vermin ... I
was accurate."
Nugent said the left-leaning
national media tried to spin the
story to discredit him.
"They took my statement, ac-
curately and honestly identifying
deceiving protesters paid for by
the Southern Poverty Law Cen-
ter, MoveOn.org and the Huffing-
ton Post, and tried saying I said
that about my American Indian
blood brothers."
Nugent said there "isn't a
tribe in this country" that hasn't
invited him to their reservation.
His relationship with them
dates back more than four
decades.
"I am the best friend to our
Native Americans," he said.
Nugent said it's a daily re-
sponsibility to fight for the right
to keep and bear arms, that apa-
thy is a curse plaguing the Amer-
ican people, and that he's fight-
ing for his nine children and 11
grandchildren.
"I lived the American dream,
but that dream isn't available to
them," he said. "I'm going to fight
to get it back. We can take back
this country, but if and only if each
of you find 100 apathetic friends,
and rather than talking about
the weather and the drought, you
need to ask them, 'Are you an
NRA member?' And if not, shame
on you."
He concluded, "If you want
to rest on your laurels, and say
I'm from Wyoming, and you can't
touch me, well, you're wrong.' You
need to communicate, and I'm not
talking once a week, I'm talking
every day. There's an enemy at
the door."
Rock and roll's
Ted Nugent,
an outspoken
conservative,
revs up the crowd
in Emblem• on
Saturday during
a Big Horn Basin
Tea Party picnic.
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