[华盛顿邮报] The Washington Post 2011.01.01

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[华盛顿邮报] The Washington Post 2011.01.01


Tea party at turning point as GOP takes House reins
Some activists wonder whether movement has changed for better

BY AMY GARDNER

On the first day of December, Gena Bell walked into the lobby of the CasaMagna resort in Cancun, Mexico, both thrilled and a little wary about what was to come. “I can’t believe we’re here!” she said, taking in the view of the water. She’d had that feeling a lot recently. Two years ago, Bell was a floral arranger in Cincinnati with plenty of time on her hands (she used to trim five Christmas trees in her suburban house) and strong opinions about the direction in which the United States was going (down). Now, she was a full-time political activist, the head of a fast-growing Ohio tea party group and an influential voice in the movement. Influential enough that Americans for Prosperity, one of the most well-heeled tea party backers in the country, had invited her to help protest a U.N. climate-change conference in Cancun. It bothered her that no one had told her why she had been invited, or just what she would be doing. But she hadn’t pushed too hard to find out before saying yes. It was tough to turn down a trip to Mexico in December. Bell changed into sandals and a summer top and got to work greeting fellow tea partyers arriving from Texas, California — all over the United States. Some she had met at tea party gatherings. Others she knew only as names in her perpetually overflowing e-mail inbox. Nearly all of them, like Bell, had stumbled into the party after Barack Obama was elected president. They had found a calling in the early days of a chaotic, leaderless movement that beckoned to political novices who identified themselves as conservatives but felt little attachment to organized politics. With astonishing speed, the tea party evolved tea party continued on A14

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