About 9:00 am. Monday, roughly 2,000 Evansville area citizens greeted three Tea Party Express III tour buses that set up a makeshift stage for speakers, singers, and speech making including area candidates. Founding principles and an anti-incumbent theme drove the crowd. “Six Republican candidates for Indiana's 8th District congressional seat, as well as John Hostettler, the former 8th District representative now seeking the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate, spoke at the event” and yours truly led the Pledge, according the Courier Press. article
Evansville Tea Party Can’t Find Ellsworth
Many more filtered throughout the crowd handing out their biz cards, fliers, or soliciting potential voters. One could not help but notice the conspicuous absence of 8th district Congressman Brad Ellsworth; certainly the most unpopular man of the day for his Obamacare vote and Stupak-like convenient prolife reversal some saw as a betrayal of campaign values considering his vote. This crowd would not believe him even if his website’s U.S. debt clock ran backwards. Despite having an office there, the only Ellsworth sighting was a mug shot on the side of a large milk carton with ‘Have You Seen Me?’ 
