Don't Tread on Me: The Story of My Run for California Governor as a Tea Party Candidate

By Larry Naritelli

New from Voices of the Tea Party. Deeply upset at the way the Republican Party abandoned its conservative base in the elections of 2008, Larry Naritelli had taken to yelling at his television, prompting his 13-year-old son to ask if there would be a revolution in the country. Naritelli responded by taking his son to a Tea Party protest, to teach him about the freedoms granted by our Constitution. Naritelli began speaking publicly about the government-imposed drought that was destroying California’s farmers, creating 40% levels of unemployment, and depressing real estate values. In 2010, he ran against Meg Whitman for Governor as the Tea Party candidate, in the California Republican Primary in 2010. Don't Tread on Me is the inside story of the making of a Tea Party gubernatorial candidate.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Sep 20, 2011
• ISBN: 9780062114563

Larry Naritelli

Larry Naritelli, a lifelong Republican, ran for Governor of California in 2010, after becoming disenfranchised with the Republican establishment as it moved away from the conservative values of Ronald Reagan. In 2009 he joined the Tea Party movement as an American patriot to join other who believe in small limited government, low taxes, and free market capitalism. He is the chairman and CEO of New Reagan Patriots, a group dedicated to promoting the resurgence of national pride and Constitutional rights via education and grassroots efforts.

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DON’T TREAD ON ME

The Story of My Run for California Governor as a Tea Party Candidate

Larry Naritelli

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Contents

About Voices of the Tea Party

Don’t Tread on Me

About the Author

Also by Broadside Books

Copyright

About the Publisher

About Voices of the Tea Party

Voices of the Tea Party is a real-time collaborative forum for Tea Partiers around the country that delivers in-depth information on tactics, strategy, and policy from on-the-ground activists through the use of inexpensive and easy to download e-books. The series will serve the vibrant online community of everyday Americans who launched and continue to drive the Tea Party movement, by taking their collaborative discussions to a much higher level. Tea Party supporters around the country will now be able to instantly access best practices that have succeeded elsewhere, hear the stories of others in the movement, and learn from Tea Partiers with specific policy ideas and expertise. Perhaps more important, they will be able to engage with other thought leaders by submitting their own e-book proposals for possible inclusion in the series. (Please see our website for details: broadsidebooks.net.) Readers and writers alike can thereby join the important national discussion within this ever-expanding community of citizen-activists who have dedicated themselves to securing the movement’s core values of constitutionally limited government, fiscal responsibility, and free markets.

Series editor Michael Patrick Leahy has been one of the driving forces of the Tea Party movement from its inception. He’s a co-founder of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, which sponsored the very first national Tea Party demonstrations; the February 27, 2009, Nationwide Chicago Tea Party; and the April 15, 2009, Tax Day Tea Party. He is also the author of The Ideological Origins of the Tea Party Movement, to be published by Broadside Books in January 2012. His website is http://www.michaelpatrickleahy.com.

Don’t Tread on Me

I was laid off in late 2008. For the fourth time in my career, the company I worked for was closing down its California facility and moving operations and jobs back East. I was a controller of the accounting operations for manufacturing facilities so when I got laid off it usually meant hundreds of other workers also lost their jobs. Coworkers in marketing, customer service, shipping, purchasing, engineering, IT, HR, and the manufacturing floor all suffered from a regulatory environment that was rapidly chasing employers away.