The local tea party group, Lanier Tea Party Patriots, says it's loading up a bus bound for Washington, D.C., this weekend to protest federal health care mandates. Their trip precedes oral arguments on the federal health care law. John Lipscomb with the group said about 50 folks from Hall County are going to "make sure that local voices" expressing the belief that the individual mandate in the law gives the government too much power over citizens' lives are heard in D.C. Speaking of D.C., Rep. Doug Collins, R-Gainesville, is bringing out his she-guns in the competition to be Georgia's newest congressman.