By Craig Schneider
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia Politics
September 16, 2010
Michael Williams, a former Domino's Pizza manager, moves through a room filled with Cobb County's Georgia Tea Party members. He alternately shouts and lowers his voice. He waves his arms and points fingers.
The people clustered at the front of the Marietta library and numbering close to 100 are in step with the charismatic and 24-year-old Williams. There is the retired Navy man, the technical writer, the local photographer. Many wear T-shirts with phrases such as "God Bless America" and "Support Our Troops."
Every Thursday night, this tea party faction meets among the books and periodicals, hosting a sizable gathering rare for any community group. Cobb County, with its emphasis on conservative values and politics, has become a stronghold for the tea party and similar organizations. People are caught up in a movement that just this week ousted a Delaware congressman from a senate bid and eliminated a former New York congressman from a governor's race, and earlier scored victories in Alaska, South Carolina and Utah elections.
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