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Usually the only pressure Jane Harman gets in her district comes from the left. Sure, she got a bunch of calls urging her to oppose the bank bailout bill, but most of the time, if somebody is picketing outside her office it's because of the Iraq war or surveillance -- or maybe the Armenian genocide.

The organizers of the South Bay Tax Day Tea Party are trying to correct the imbalance. Nathan Mintz recently met with Harman to encourage her fiscally conservative instincts, and filed this report:

We had a great meeting with Jane Harman who was cordial, gracious, and very interested in this growing grassroots TEA party movement that we are a part of.  She said she was impressed by the number of calls that she has gotten from our group.  She is a Blue Dog Democrat and one of our goals was to support her in all of her fiscally conservative positions and encourage her in future bills because we the people want to stop the staggering spending, balance the budget, and stop the bailouts.  And on the Health-care bill which has not hit the floor yet that we want a fiscally conservative solution that does not grow the power of the Federal Government in any way.  We also expressed our profound disappointment with the Cap and Trade vote.  More on all this later as I must get on a plane in a few minutes. 

They are planning a demonstration outside her office in opposition to the Obama health plan on July 17.

Taxpayers are staging Tea Parties across the country today. One of those protests is happening now at Dockweiler State Beach.

The South Bay Tax Day Tea Party is being organized by Nathan Mintz, who apparently wrote a political column during his time at Stanford. Here's one of them from 2005:

Let me be emphatic on this point: the same people calling for Terri Schiavo's starvation are also advocating euthanasia and infanticide. This is the world that the forces pushing to kill Terri Schiavo are paving the way for: according to a study by the American Society for Suicide Prevention, in the Netherlands euthanasia has skyrocketed to fully 9 percent of the deaths in that country since its legalization in 1990 -- furthermore, half of the procedures were performed without the consent of the patient. Statistically speaking, this would be the equivalent of 100,000 incidents of involuntary euthanasia a year in the United States. There is a word for this sort of thing -- mass-murder.

Check tomorrow's Breeze for a full account of today's rally.

UPDATE: Out of fairness, here is a more recent Mintz quote.

Our own government has paved this path, with our elected leaders leading a massive decade long spending orgy, the consequence of which sits as a yolk (sic) upon the neck of our children and grandchildren.

Orgies can be messy, but I think he meant "yoke."