Holliston Woman Steps Down as Greater Boston Tea Party President

Holliston's Christen Varley is set to end her two-year term as President of the Greater Boston Tea Party at the beginning of 2012.

The organization has elected Christine Morabito, a Haverhill nurse and Tea Party supporter since the movement's inception, to lead the group.

"Christine has been a dedicated activist within the movement and has exhibited outstanding leadership qualities in her writing, her public speaking and her service to the Greater Boston Tea Party,” Christen Varley said in a statement. 

Varley will serve as secretary for the upcoming term. 

The Boston Globe identifies these elections as "further maturation and formalization for a loosely affiliated movement that sprang up nationally as President Obama pushed his health care bill in 2009."

But Tea Party organizations across the country have suffered a small blow recently as their house caucus was forced to pass a federal payroll tax cut after public pressure boiled, the Globe reports.

The group's website promises rallies and fund-raising efforts leading up to the November presidential elections.