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May 3, 2012 – Conservative Party names Keith C. Westbrook as President, CP-Florida.

The Conservative Party USA is pleased to announce that Dr. Keith C. Westbrook, Ph.D. has assumed the role of President, Conservative Party (Florida).

“I welcome Keith to this critical leadership role.” commented H. Michael Hervey, CP-USA’s Chairman.  “Keith’s extensive business and political experience coupled with his strong social media skills will be invaluable in helping to guide the FL party during this critical stage of development. The conservative movement will certainly benefit from his energy and forward-leaning ideas.”

Keith is a well-established resident of Gainesville FL, is a licensed FINRA professional and owns Westbrook Insurance and Financial Services. Read Bio

“Our state party will certainly benefit from Keith’s energy, passion and knowledge.” explained Dick Page, Chairman, CP-FL.  “I look forward to working with him to make sure that true conservatives and Tea Party activists in Florida realize they have a have a real home in the Conservative Party during this election year.”

www.conservativepartyfl.org

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The Conservative Party (www.conservativepartyusa.com) will rectify the consistent failures of the current two-party system. CP-USA is America’s True “Second Party” and represents the next step in the evolution of the Tea Party.

Contact: H. Michael Hervey, Chairman, hmherevey@cp-usa.org  408.394.7184

Mitt Romney addresses local tea-partiers at the Franklin Institute.

Source: Philly.com:

By Thomas Fitzgerald

Posted: April 17th, 2012

WITH THE Republican nomination in hand but skeptics remaining on his right, Mitt Romney told a “tax-day summit” of tea-party activists at the Franklin Institute Monday night that he was determined to shrink the federal government and keep runaway regulation and taxes from killing jobs.

“The economy is struggling because the government is too big, and we’re going to bring it down to size,” Romney told about 400 people at the event organized by the Independence Hall Tea Party. “This campaign is going to be fun. The contrast could not be greater.”

President Obama “doesn’t understand the power and importance of economic freedom,” Romney said. “I just don’t think he understands what makes America such an exceptional and successful nation.”

A wealthy former venture capitalist, Romney also ridiculed the “Buffett Rule,” the measure being pushed by Obama and congressional Democrats to ensure that the wealthiest Americans pay at least 30 percent of their income in taxes. The proposal was blocked Monday in a Senate vote.

Local Democrats took the occasion to demand that Romney release more of his tax returns. So far, he has released his 2010 returns and an estimate for 2011 that he will pay an effective tax rate of 13.9 percent because most of his income is from investments.

Monday’s gathering was not the type of boisterous tea-party rally made famous during the movement’s rise in 2009. This was a ticketed affair, with $10, $20 and $30 seats. Organizers said that paid for the venue and staging.

Indeed, the event drew a different brand of protester – a dozen or so Occupy Philly supporters, who complained of being excluded even though they brandished tickets, and chanting “refund, refund” on the steps of the building.

Romney’s visit with the tea party reflected the delicate task that now confronts him: As the fall race begins in earnest, he must reach out to independent and moderate voters while reassuring holdouts in his own party’s base.

Exit polls spell out how Romney has faced resistance over the course of the primaries from elements of the Republican coalition – evangelical Christians, including some who are leery of a former Massachusetts governor who also is a Mormon, and voters who identify themselves as “very conservative.”

Sandy Niemotka, 45, a lawyer from Oaklyn, Camden County, is a tea-party member but also a Romney fan, liking his experience in business and as a governor.

“He gets such a bad rap, but I think he’s great,” said Niemotka. “He’s being made fun of on ‘Saturday Night Live’ for being a nerd and maybe a little bit too much of a salesman, but at least our guy for once isn’t being made fun of for being dumb.”

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