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Powerful Tea Party Group's Internal Docs Leak--Read Them HereQuicklink submitted by Amanda Lang Permalink |
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FreedomWorks bills itself as a grassroots outfit, but it's bankrolled mostly by big-money donors. FreedomWorks, the national conservative group that helped launch the tea party movement, sells itself as a genuine grassroots operation, and for years, it has battled accusations of 'astroturfing'--posing as a populist organization while doing the bidding of big-money donors. Yet internal documents obtained by Mother Jones show that FreedomWorks has indeed become dependent on wealthy individual donors to finance its growing operation. Last month, the Washington Post reported that Richard Stephenson, a reclusive millionaire banker and FreedomWorks board member, and members of his family in October funneled $12 million through two newly created Tennessee corporations to FreedomWorks' super-PAC, which used these funds to support tea party candidates in November's elections... |
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