Tea Party Group to Rally Against President Obama

The campaign rhetoric and attacks launched by President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have become very heated, and now a local group plans to join the fray.

Jerry DeLemus of Rochester, head organizer of the Rochester 912 Project, said several New Hampshire Granite State Patriots and NH Tea Party coalition members will march from Citizens Bank in downtown Rochester toward Rochester Commons on Saturday at 1 p.m.

The New Hampshire group is holding the march to rally against President Obama before

"There will be many Liberty groups and individuals attending," wrote DeLemus in an e-mail on Thursday. "We will get as close to the commons as we can get and march back."

DeLemus said the Rochester 912 Project has several hundred members and he expects that "quite a few" of them will participate in the march. "We will probably get some from Maine.

"We want to show that we don't support the direction that Obama has taken the country," said DeLemus. "This is not a rally in favor of Mitt Romney. This is a rally in opposition to the direction the President has taken our country."

According to the Obama campaign, President Obama is expected to talk about  the choice in the November election between two fundamentally different visions of how to grow the economy, create more middle-class jobs and pay down the debt. 

"The President believes the only way to build an economy meant to last is to build it from the middle out, not the top down. He will highlight his plan to restore middle-class security by paying down our debt in a balanced way that ensures everyone pays their fair share and still invests in the things we need to create jobs and grow our economy over the long term, like education, energy, innovation, and infrastructure," reads a press release issued by the Obama for America campaign.

As a Rochester resident, DeLemus said Rochester Mayor T.J. Jean's pledge that of President Obama's visit "just infuriates me.

"For Mayor Jean to make that offer on behalf of the taxpayers of Rochester is just wrong," DeLemus said. He added that members of his Rochester 912 Project group plan to attend the Rochester City Council meeting on Aug. 21 and make their voices heard on that issue.