Hernando County Tea Party

The Hernando County Tea Party (HCTP) is the local branch of a national political movement in the United States that has sponsored locally and nationally coordinated protests since 2009. The HCTP was founded on March 13, 2010 by Kevin Floyd and is based out of the town of Spring Hill.

Its platform is generally recognized as conservative, constitutional, and right-libertarian.

The HCTP endorses reduced government spending, lower taxes through the adoption of a FAIR or flat tax, reduction of the national debit and federal budget deficit, the restoration of Florida's States' Rights as guranteed by the 10th Amendment, and adherence to an originalist interpretation of the United States Constitution.

The name "Tea Party" is a reference to the Boston Tea Party, a protest by colonists who objected to a British tax on tea in 1773 and demonstrated by dumping British tea taken from docked ships into the harbor. Their rallying cry of "no taxation without representation" has become a slogan of the Tea Party movement.