[1] By MONICA VON DOBENECK Beverly Cigler, Penn State Harrisburg professor of public policy and administration, says the tea party groups have no hierarchy, so groups in different areas often have different agendas. Tom Carper, chairman of the Lebanon 9-12 Project, uses an analogy to describe why he thinks it’s important for fiscal conservatives to get involved in local politics. "If you look at the federal government as a drug cartel, and the state as the dealer, then municipalities and school boards are the junkies," he said. "If you cure the junkie, you can fix the system."