Mainers who are concerned about the size of the federal government are holding "Tea Parties" across the state on Tax Day, April 15.
Under the banner "Eliminate the pork, cut taxes," the Maine tea party organizers present the movement as a decentralized political affair.
“The strength of the tea party movement is the fact that it is leaderless, non-partisan and grassroots,” Andrew Ian Dodge of the Maine Tea Party Patriots said. “We do not need leaders, but merely people to help and advise those on the ground to maximize their efforts to overturn the socialist majority in both the House and the Senate. Americans are clea....