By JASON CAMPBELL 209 staff reporter At first glance David Cushman doesn’t look anything like a political operative. He’s young and soft-spoken and has a friendly boy-next-door demeanor that you don’t expect to find in somebody who stands up for what he believes in and tries as hard as possible to clue others in to what he considers to the right course of political action. But as the Chairman of the Manteca Tea Party Patriots – an offshoot of the conservative organization that swept American politics after the election of President Barack Obama – Cushman is all of those things at once while at the same time toeing the line between being vocal and being pushy.
TEA PARTY POLITICS Local issues as important as national

