About Us

Mission Statement
Our mission is fully aligned with the national non-partisan Tea Party movement focused on reducing our excessive government. We will work locally in Western Oakland County of Michigan to attract, educate, organize and mobilize fellow citizens to help secure public policy consistent with our three core values.

Core Values

* Fiscal Responsibility
* Constitutionally Limited Government
* Free Markets

Fiscal Responsibility: Fiscal Responsibility by government honors and respects the freedom of the individual to spend the money that is the fruit of their own labor. A constitutionally limited government, designed to protect the blessings of liberty, must be fiscally responsible or it must subject its citizenry to high levels of taxation that unjustly restrict the liberty our Constitution was designed to protect. Such runaway deficit spending as we now see in Washington D.C. compels us to take action as the increasing national debt is a grave threat to our national sovereignty and the personal and economic liberty of future generations.

Constitutionally Limited Government: We, the members of The Tea Party Patriots, are inspired by our founding documents and regard the Constitution of the United States to be the supreme law of the land. We believe that it is possible to know the original intent of the government our founders set forth, and stand in support of that intent. Like the founders, we support states' rights for those powers not expressly stated in the Constitution. As the government is of the people, by the people and for the people, in all other matters we support the personal liberty of the individual, within the rule of law.

Free Markets: A free market is the economic consequence of personal liberty. The founders believed that personal and economic freedom were indivisible, as do we. Our current government's interference distorts the free market and inhibits the pursuit of individual and economic liberty. Therefore, we support a return to the free market principles on which this nation was founded and oppose government intervention into the operations of private business.

Our Philosophy Tea Party Patriots, Inc. as an organization believes in the Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government, and Free Markets. Tea Party Patriots, Inc. is a non-partisan grassroots organization of individuals united by our core values derived from the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States of America, the Bill Of Rights as explained in the Federalist Papers. We recognize and support the strength of grassroots organization powered by activism and civic responsibility at a local level. We hold that the United States is a republic conceived by its architects as a nation whose people were granted "unalienable rights" by our Creator. Chiefly among these are the rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." The Tea Party Patriots stand with our founders, as heirs to the republic, to claim our rights and duties which preserve their legacy and our own. We hold, as did the founders, that there exists an inherent benefit to our country when private property and prosperity are secured by natural law and the rights of the individual.


Long Term Vision: A prosperous thriving America with small limited governments (Federal, State, & Local) that have little debt, balanced budgets, and few controls over free Americans and businesses.


Short Term Goals (2011 – 2012):
1. Strengthen the Tea Party Patriots of West Oakland County group with more participants, donations, activities, and impact.
2. Help increase the number of Tea Party members to become precinct delegates.
3. Help to keep elected representatives accountable to support changes to reduce government taxation, spending, and controls.
4. Help elect a person that understands fiscal responsibility in the 2012 Presidential election.
5. Help identify, promote, and elect Federal, State, and local representatives in November 2012 that support the Tea Party Patriot core values.
6. Help defeat candidates who support big government policies.
7. Influence Independent or swing voters to choose “limited government” candidates.
8. Learn how to participate in the legislative process and the electoral process.

Long Term Goals (2013 & beyond):
1. Maintain a strong and fresh leadership group to assure the Tea Party Patriots of West Oakland County survives, thrives, and has continual impact to achieve the mission.
2. Educate Americans how excessive government hurts society and influence them to join or support the cause and vote for candidates that support smaller government policies.
3. Continually keep elected representatives accountable to support changes to reduce government taxation, spending, and controls.
4. Identify, promote, and elect Federal, State, and local representatives that support the Tea Party Patriot core values.
5. Help defeat candidates who support big government policies.



We Believe in the Five Principles of Nonviolence:
1. Non-violent resistance is not a method for cowards. It does resist. The nonviolent resister is just as strongly opposed to the evil against which he protests, as is the person who uses violence. His method is passive or nonaggressive in the sense that he is not physically aggressive toward his opponent, but his mind and emotions are always active, constantly seeking to persuade the opponent that he is mistaken. This method is passive physically but strongly active spiritually; it is nonaggressive physically but dynamically aggressive spiritually.
2. Nonviolent resistance does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding. The nonviolent resister must often express his protest through noncooperation but he realizes that noncooperation is not the ends itself; it is merely means to awaken a sense of moral shame in the opponent.
3. The attack is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who are caught in those forces. It is a struggle between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.
4. Nonviolent resistance avoids not only external physical violence, but also internal violence of spirit. At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
5. Nonviolence is based on the conviction that the universe is on the side of justice. It is the deep faith in the future that allows a nonviolent resister to accept suffering without retaliation. The nonviolent resister knows that in his struggle for justice, he has a cosmic companionship.