http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Our_Country_Deserves_Better
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http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=29735
Tea Party Patriots and Tea Party Express have been clashing for months over which group truly represents the movement. A flashpoint came this fall when a member of the Tea Party Patriots' board, Amy Kremer, switched sides and joined Tea Party Express, allegedly taking the Patriots' extensive email database with her and locking the rest of the board out of the TPP website. In November, this led the Patriots to go to court to get an injunction against her to reclaim ownership of the group's electronic resources.
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Tea Party Nation, a for profit organization, recently had the "Tea Party Convention" in Nashville, where they charged more than $500 per person, and the keynote speaker, Sarah Palin, was paid $100,000. She started it off by praising it as a grass roots conservative movement not involved in the establishment, ignoring her establishment status and that of socialist Scott Brown who she also cheered on. She ignored the fact that the modern portion of this was born in part out of anger over the bailouts which she supported. Considering that this movement started with the Ron Paul campaign, it was rather disturbing to see her spend the majority of her time discussing interventionist foreign policy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7gVp3diPbI
I could go on for hours about how horrible this woman is but I'll leave that to you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrzXLYA_e6E
A number of different groups, including Tea Party Patriots, and American Liberty Alliance boycotted the convention, fearing it would expose them as GOP Loyalist Pro-War groups, and Campaign for Liberty (Anti-War, Pro Liberty) did not attend, though despite rumors it was barred, was actually invited to participate.
Some former Tea Party Nation leaders have recently spoken out against the organization's founder Judson Phillips, a former assistant district attorney now in private practice, specializing in driving-under-the-influence and personal-injury cases, who says he has run for office as a Republican before. Insiders say that long-time Republican donor Bill Hemrick [he gave $1000 to the NRCC in late 2009 and to the Fred Thompson and Marsha Blackburn campaigns among others], owner of Upper Deck Trading cards, gave Judson Philips at least $50,000 and maybe the whole $125,000 to cover Tea Party Nation's Sarah Palin speaker's fee. Tami Killmarx, who was banned from TPN for voicing concerns over financial funny business, such as funneling funds for the group through a personal paypal account, said she heard him say numerous times "I want to make a million from this movement." Also saying --At every step of the way Judson is trying to poison the waters. He has ruined this for us. This is not "the movement" in Tennessee. People are fighting hard for our country. We are worn out. We have wanted to come out for months [to expose Phillips]. We are trying to salvage this movement. Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman need to know what this is. It's a ruse. Let everyone come and hear Sarah Palin. Un uh, they wanted to make money. They wanted get in bed with the GOP".
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Tea Party Patriots was organized by and is part of FreedomWorks. FreedomWorks is run by Dick Armey. Dick Armey is a registered lobbyist for the Pharmaceutical Industry, and former Republican House Majority Leader. Armey's lobbying firm DLA Piper received, it's largest sum, the better $1.79 Million, from Medicines Co. last year.
The ownership information of the website for Tea Party Patriots (teapartypatriots.org) is masked by ProtectPrivacy, located in the Netherlands, and gets free hosting from ning.com. There is no "about", "staff", "directors" or other information identifying any individual as responsible for any part of the website, listed as a 501(c)(4) organization on the homepage.
Tea Party Patriots does not officially endorse candidates, but through it's network of PAC's and 527's and the sort, does so all the time. The other organizations are technically unaffiliated, on paper, but are publicly listed as fronts for the organization on their website. Two such Organizations prominently listed are from right here in Long Island, the Conservative Society for Action, and the Suffolk County 9/12 Project.
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http://www.teapartypatriots.org/Groups.aspx
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http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmsum.php?lname=DLA+Piper&year=2009
http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmlbs.php?lname=DLA+Piper&year=2009
http://www.freedomworks.org/about/about-freedomworks
FreedomWorks has issued a "Hit List" of sorts, to Tea Party Patriots and other groups, targetting Democrats all over the country, Including my opponent, Tim Bishop.
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Bob MacGuffe, a Tea Party Patriots Member, issued the "Rock the Town Hall Memo" largely credited for outbursts in the town hall meetings which says quote
Be Disruptive Early And Often: "You need to rock-the-boat early in the Rep's presentation, Watch for an opportunity to yell out and challenge the Rep's statements early."
Try To "Rattle Him," Not Have An Intelligent Debate: "The goal is to rattle him, get him off his prepared script and agenda. If he says something outrageous, stand up and shout out and sit right back down. Look for these opportunities before he even takes questions."
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