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Former Saturday Night Live cast member Victoria Jackson says Obama administration officials use "cheating and lying and bribing." (WBEN Photo/Barbara Burns)

Posted: Monday, 12 April 2010 4:30PM

Tea Party Express Comes To Buffalo

Barbara Burns Reporting

bburns@entercom.com

Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) The national Tea Party Express rolled into downtown Buffalo today with a message for those disgruntled with the Obama Administration.

With their efforts focused on the 2010 elections, Tea Party members vow to defeat the likes of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Hundreds gathered for the rally at the Commercial Clip on Buffalo's Inner Harbor. Some dressed in persiod costume, Uncle Sam even showed up. The event included entertainment and spekers including former Saturday Night Live cast member Victoria Jackson says said of member of the Obama administration "they use cheating and lying and bribing and what we use, who are fighting for liberty, is wisdom and love and truth."

Rapper David Saucedo, who goes by the name Politick, is from Waco, Texas, one of the poorest cities in the U-S. He's traveling with the Tea Party Express and says the movement is well received across the country. "Very, very motivated, people are upset about this health care bill, not only the health care bill...people who have been sleeping for a long time...are standing up."

Local reform advocated Leonard Roberto spoke briefly at the rally and announced rather than run for the NYS Senate against Dale Volker that local republican leaders have asked him to challenge democratic congressman Brian Higgins instead.

But the rally was not without opposition. A small but loud crowd gathered at the entrance to the Commercial Slip. Ellie Dorritie with the International Action Center says "the Tea Party Express is part of a national move to destroy all of the things that we've all fought for, that we need in order to survive including the safety net." Those in opposition chanted "jobs are a right, fight, fight, fight."

The event lasted two hours before the tea Party Express rolled out of Buffalo headed for Suracuse. The tour wraps up Thursday in Washington D-C.

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04/12/2010 7:18PM

Tea Party Express Comes To Buffalo

Will the Tea Party movement impact the 2010 elections? Tell us what you think...

04/12/2010 8:37PM

uh, yeah... sure

if the best representatives of the republican party is a lame SNL reject and a no-name comedian from Texas (no, not W.) -- not to mention the illiterate gal who tries to look like Tina Fey -- then I feel sorry for the GOP.

04/13/2010 12:01PM

In a word...

No.

04/13/2010 12:04PM

What's Ellie afraid of?

From the article: "Ellie Dorritie with the International Action Center says 'the Tea Party Express is part of a national move to destroy all of the things that we've all fought for, that we need in order to survive including the safety net.'"Translation: the tea partiers want to kick us all off of Uncle Sam's plantation and make us responsible for our own lives; how dare they try to set us free from our slavery to the government!