Right-Wingers Gather in Las Vegas for Online Organizing Conference

[Joanne98]

LAS VEGAS, NEV. — Richard Viguerie is a happy man. At 76, Viguerie, a founder of the religious right and largely credited with winning the 1980 presidential election for Ronald Reagan, believes he’s about to see his dream come true: a U.S. government dominated by movement conservatives, thanks to the Tea Party movement.

“Today we have an opportunity like I’ve never seen in my lifetime,” Viguerie told an audience of Tea Party activists at RightOnline, the right’s answer to the progressive Netroots Nation conference, which is gathered at a hotel on the other end of the Las Vegas strip.

The Tea Party faithful gathered at The Venetian Casino and Hotel for the third such confab, organized by the Americans For Prosperity Foundation, an AstroTurfing group chaired by David Koch, board member and executive vice president of Koch Industries, the largest privately held company in the United States (and one of the nation’s worst polluters).

Those who view the Tea Party movement as a bunch of in-fighting yahoos might take pause at the conference agenda, which covers virtually all aspects of organizing, both online and off-. Tea Partiers fill to overflow training sessions about blogging and podcasting, as well as how to organize via Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. (One break-out session was titled “Pimp Your Website: Taking it to the Next Level.”)

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/07/23/right-wingers-gather-in-las-vegas-for-online-organizing-conference/

[donco6]

1. Lovely. They've already dominated every news board out there.

You can't have a decent conversation on a news website at all.

[Native]

2. True

[Politicalboi]

3. In-fighting yahoo's?

I thought it was in-bred yahoo's. Do they go to Vegas so they can lie about the "crowd" LOL! There are thousands here today, just on the strip alone. LOL! You would think there are other reason's to be in Vegas, but nope, they are ALL there for the teabaggers.