Locals gather for second TEA Party to protest federal government

TEA Party protesters serve up signs at Codger Park in Colfax.

A little over a dozen people gathered Saturday for a “TEA Party” to protest what they consider a lack of fiscal restraint from the federal government.

The gathering at the Colfax Codger park on Main Street was in support of a national TEA Party march on Washington, D.C. the same day.

Local organizer Denise Culbertson said more than two million people were reported to have taken part in the protest at the nation’s capital. The TEA party tag derived from an acronym for Taxed Enough Already.

Protesters from Malden to Pullman gathered a...