Verve Magazine
Tea For Two
by Jess McCuan | Verve Magazine| October 2010
(photos by Matt Rose)
On the national political scene, everyone’s talking about the Tea Party. What is the “party” up to locally? We asked its leaders.
Bilello, now chair of the Asheville Tea Party, has been a Democrat most of her life. In 2002, she decided she didn’t like Tom Daschle and a handful of other powerful Democrats at the time and became a left-of-center Republican. In 2008, she says, she got anxious about all sorts of political issues. She watched Barack Obama on TV and “saw socialism through and through.” The national debt was mounting, and she worried about border security. She felt that John McCain was a RINO—Republican In Name Only. In other words, she didn’t want to vote for anyone. “Republicans and Democrats are both bought and paid for by lobbyists. They don’t understand our founding documents or the idea of limited government,” she says. “We need to get off this train…”
For Franzi, now an ATP board member and its communications director, forming the Asheville Tea Party stemmed from a feeling that Americans were losing liberties. In 2008, she was also disgusted, she says, with bailouts and stimulus packages. When she organized her first rally, on a cold, rainy day in Pritchard Park in February 2009, she was shocked that nearly 50 people showed up. A libertarian through and through, she says starting a local group was as much about busting stereotypes as it was about ordinary Americans speaking out. “We’re not all GOP shills,” she says of the group’s current 750 newsletter subscribers. In the past year, the mild-mannered stay-at-home mom has started doing jazz performances on Monday nights at the downtown Asheville club Tressa’s. “It helps me forget all the nasty emails I get during the week,” she says…
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