The first one.
Dean Murray, a 45-year-old Long Island, N.Y., businessman who organized Tea Party protests, will be sworn in as the new Republican state assemblyman representing Long Island’s eastern 3rd Assembly District after being certified the winner of a special election held last Tuesday.
Murray defeated his Democratic opponent, 28-year-old Lauren Thoden, 51 to 49 percent, making him what is believed to be the first Tea Party organizer who has attained public office. His district has been in Democratic hands for the last 13 years and he is the third Republican to hold the seat in the last 37 years. The assemblywoman he replaced, Patricia Eddington, resigned to take another post as a town clerk.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/17/tea-party-organizer-wins-new-york-state-assembly-race/
It’s small but it’s a start. If Republican politicians are wise, they’ll embrace the Tea Party philosophy of less spending, less taxes, less government. There are porkers on both sides of the aisle, but we need to yank a knot in the asses of our Republican members of Senate and Congress; tell them to honor the spirit and the letter of the Constitution.