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Brownsville Tea Party Association

Minutes of October 9, 2010

New Workout Brownsville, Texas

21 present

Meeting began at 9:00

Meeting and Greet


Invocation
Pledge of Allegiance
Special thanks to Doug for allowing Tea Party to use his meeting room for our meetings.
Opening comments by Phil Deering about the newly restructured BrownsvilleTea Party

New board members introduced.

Report on Education given. Committee is registering voters in churches and RV parks.

President's Report: Phil Deering, the new president, introduced himself.

Agenda items: In a unanimous vote, it was decided to become an unincorporated nonprofit


association.

Newly developed bi-laws were passed out for inspection; vote for acceptance will take place
during the November meeting.

In a vote of9 to 4, the Tip of Texas Tea Party's name was changed to Brownsville Tea Party.

Dues were discussed and in a 13 to 4 vote; it was decided that each member would pay
$20.00/year membership dues.

In a vote of 12 to 5, it was decided to endorse candidates.

In another vote, all but two wanted to endorse Blake Farenthal during this election period.

Meeting time of the new Brownsville Tea Party was set for the first Saturday of each month at
the Workout in Brownsville at 9:30 am.

The next step in the plan to elect conservatives is to "get the vote out". Members were asked to
work one on one to get people to the polls. Poll watching was encouraged. It was decided that
the "Fabulous Seven" would go out to the early voting areas.

Long Term Goals were set to be discussed at the November 6, 2010 meeting.

The meeting was adjourned at 10:30 am.

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