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TEA PARTY POLITICS Local issues as important as national
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Manteca Tea Party Patriots co-founder David Marks addresses the crowd at a past meeting of the conservative group. While the organization of the group has changed, its commitment to ideas has remained steadfast and the group is gearing up for a big public push to register voters in advance of the Presidential election in November.
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.