Community Organizing for Conservatives

New from Broadside Books' Voices of the Tea Party. Lorie Medina explains how she became involved with the Tea Party movement and how her background prepared her for her important role. She shares with the reader how to start a local grassroots organization and helps to prepare them for many of the challenges they will face. Lorie uses real people and real situations to explain best practices for local tea party groups. Throughout the book, Lorie focuses on the necessity of local groups to truly affect lasting change in America.

Lorie Medina grew up in a small town in Missouri and then later graduated from Baylor University in Texas. For over a decade she had a successful career in telecommunications. On top of Lorie’s full time political activism, she’s a busy wife and mother. Lorie is married to a retired military and West Point graduate, Russ Medina, who owns a small telecommunications business. They are the proud parents of 2 young beautiful daughters. Lorie is a leader in the Dallas Tea Party, the creator of the successful Victory in a Box, a grassroots focused get-out-the-vote program, co-organizer of www.ElectionDayTeaParty.com and candidate consultant.