Thank you Diane Hawkins (April 29, “Wished there had been Tea Party coverage”) and Robert Vann (April 29, “Protest on tax day deserved something in local paper”) for your letters to the editor. I’ve been looking for a group in the area of like-minded thinkers for along time, so was glad to learn about your Tea Party group in Thousand Oaks.

Although I’ve always been a Republican, I was so disgusted with the Bush administration– and his father’s too–that I couldn’t bring myself to vote for John McCain in 2008 because I was convinced he would bring us more of the same–a departure from the Constitution, with bigger government and bigger spending. Sarah Palin added some inspiration to his ticket, but not enough to keep me from voting for Obama and his promised “change.”

Unfortunately Obama didn’t describe the details of his change. I certainly didn’t expect the socialism/ Marxism kind, which he has been proposing and pushing through Congress over the past year.

For a while I was glad that Sarah Palin continued to let her voice be heard after the election, but the more I hear her, the shallower her vision seems.

That’s why I feel the Tea Party movement is important.

I want to discuss things with them and learn from them. I hope they will bring us candidates who support the Constitution. The Founding Fathers carefully drafted the document to give us individual liberty based on limited government and more personal responsibility.

We need to bring our country back to it.
Aleene Jackson
Thousand Oaks