Tea Party activists protest in Buffalo

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - Tea Party activists have protested twice in the past week in Buffalo.

On Saturday, organizer Rus Thompson laid out his plan for the upcoming election.

"I co-founded an organization called Primary Challenge and our whole objective was to run people against the incumbents in the primary," Rus explained.

Supporters are now demonstrating on a regular basis.

>>>People who are saying, I've had enough!

Last Friday, they blocked the entrance to Congresswoman Louise Slaughter's office on Main Street.

Activists accuse lawmakers of ignoring them.

They don't support the new health care bill and they don't want Albany to keep spending money it doesn't have.

The State Budget is due April 1st and the deficit is still more than $8 billion.

Rus exclaimed, "Everywhere we go, it's the same thing. The same problems that we have here is exactly what they have everywhere else across the state, from Long Island, from all the way to central New York, down to Jamestown."

The local Tea Party movement is bringing out some well known names.

Candidate, Carl Paladino stated, "This illustration of arrogance, egotistical, out of the box, off the reservation attitudes. That they know best, that they know how to run our lives."

Supporter, Dennis Delano stated, "We've gotten so far off the deep end, I believe that we need to start reigning some of these things in again and getting back to our roots."