Pleasanton Tea Partier: Steve Wagner

Name: Steve Wagner

Age: 56

Profession: CEO of a small start-up

How long have you lived in Pleasanton? Since 1989

Why did you move here? The schools, Main Street, the small-town atmosphere.

Why did you decide to come today? To show support for what we're all thinking, like minds, you know? Everybody's saying the same thing. It's a simple message about hope and change: The changes are kind of destroying our hope. We're scared of what we're seeing. We're seeing our liberties and freedoms slowly taken away. It's been slowly happening for decades, but when Obama took over, he pressed the accelerator down.

Thoughts about the U.S. tax system: There's a report out today that he lowered our taxes, but what's going to happen with the health care bill? There are all these things that aren't taxes, like penalties, licenses to sell our homes, that are destroying the middle class. Obama thinks there should be the elite and everybody else. He's hurting the middle class.

Do you think Obama was born in the United States? I'm not sure, but I'd like to see his birth certificate. I'd like to see some proof. And what about this college thesis, he's never let that be released.

What about the rumors that he is Muslim? I'm not sure, but he's certainly done some things that  make you think.

See more coverage of Thursday's Tea Party event here.