23 Tea Party groups in San Antonio area alone despite claims that Tea Party is 'dead'

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4/14/12, "Dead it’s not -the tea party lives on in grassroots activists determined to see change," AP via Washington Post

"Twice a month at the Jim’s Restaurant not far from his home, Baillio unloads tea party T-shirts and baseball caps, sets an American flag on a Formica table and leads his neighborhood tea party group — one of 23 in the San Antonio area — in a discussion. They talk about the Obama administration’s policies regarding insurance for birth control, about how to become a delegate to the conventions that help determine the Texas GOP’s leaders and platform.

• He does this every first and third Tuesday of the month,

even though he knows some are already writing the tea party’s obituary. In this, the first presidential campaign since the dawn of the movement, no single contender has been christened the “tea party candidate.” And what was once the boisterous focus of American politics is now the butt of Internet insult: “Ding Dong — the Tea Party is dead!” wrote one blogger.

“Are we dead?” Baillio asked several of his members on a recent Tuesday. About 15 had gathered on this night, including retired military men, grandmothers, a few real estate brokers, a city utility worker, a high school Spanish teacher and a photographer.

Their responses were steeped in the kind of confidence that comes with clout, and the San Antonio Tea Party has gained some of that."...via Lucianne

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