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3/8/13,
"When Bloggers Attack: John Hawkins Takes A Dive for Grover Norquist," Atlas Shrugs, Pamela Geller
"Finally, here is a reminder for John Hawkins of what integrity looks
like. The Tea Party Fort Lauderdale wrote this to the TeaParty.net, one
of the co-sponsors of the CPAC Blog Awards and CPAC itself:
"HERE'S ANOTHER REASON TO REMOVE US FROM YOUR LIST. NORQUIST, KHAN, AND YOU CALL YOURSELVES 'TEA PARTY?"...
"Spencer was told that one of the co-sponsors of the award,
TheTeaParty.net, didn’t want to allow him to receive the award at CPAC
next week unless he promised not to criticize two board members of
CPAC’s hosting organization, the American Conservative Union: Grover
Norquist and Suhail Khan."
In years past at CPAC, Robert Spencer and Pam Geller have held panels
warning of the dangers of radical Islam. Looks like Grover and Tea
Party.net are running things now.
How absurd! Blogs have soared in popularity because they report what
the MSM doesn't! Now we have Grover Norquist and Tea Party.net
effectively SILENCING an American's freedom to speak about the very
subject matter he won the award for.
It looks as though the CPAC Gestapo, Grover Norquist and Tea Party.net, have effectively silenced free speech!
It is my hope Robert Spencer and Pam Geller attend CPAC. The majority
of CPAC attendees support them! Norquist and Tea party.net do not speak
for us!
The Band of Mothers will be at CPAC to collect Post Cards For
Soldiers. The folks need to be reminded of the dangers among us and the
noble Heroes who keep us safe!
Beverly Perlson
The Band of Mothers"...
http://jihadwatch.terrorismawareness.org/?q=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5qaWhhZHdhdGNoLm9yZy8yMDEzLzAzL3JvYmVydC1zcGVuY2VyLX
dpbnMtY3BhYy1hd2FyZC1hcy1sb25nLWFzLWhlLWRvZXNudC1jcml0aWNpemUtZ3JvdmVyLW
5vcnF1aXN0Lmh0bWw%3D...
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More on this scandal from Thomas Lifson at American Thinker:
3/8/13, "JihadWatch.com wins CPAC 'People's Choice Award' but is barred from receiving it (updated with response)," American Thinker, Thomas Lifson
"The
controversy over the CPAC Peoples' Choice Blogger Awards continues to
develop, with a response from John Hawkins, printed below. Here is the
original blog entry, followed by John Hawkins' response:
3/6/13 original post:
In
a shocking development that should alert all conservatives to
behind-the-scenes manipulation of CPAC and other conservative
organizations, the winner of the voting for an important award for
bloggers has been barred from receiving it. Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs reports:"...(balance of post)
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People knew The TeaParty.net was fake 2 years ago, posted on this blog:
4/29/11, Tea Party.net is actually connected with CPAC, whose abject failure is one of the reasons the real Tea Party was born
A banner ad mentioned the Tea Party, the fine print said sponsored by a group called "Stop this Insanity." It's 'home' link led to a website called TheTeaParty.net. It looked too overly produced to be connected to real Tea Party people. It turns out it's a big supporter of CPAC, and David Keene's wife is their 'representative' in Washington DC. Meaning it's run by establishment GOP hacks.
David Keene being the longtime head of CPAC who is now head of the NRA. CPAC's best efforts gave us Obama. I read they plan to re-orient Tea Party people to ACU regional groups, since ACU knows best how to do things. Right. These phonies still don't get it.
Just another group trying to co-opt the Tea Party:
4/5/11, "Evidence mounts TheTeaParty.net is a FAKE," conservative outlooks blog
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More:
"A little-known, Arizona-based tea party
organization has hired a prominent Republican operative to help advance
its mission in Washington, D.C. But after more than a year in operation
and hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, it’s still not clear
what the group’s mission actually is.
Todd Cefaratti, founder of TheTeaParty.net,
announced last week that the group had hired a big Washington gun:
governmental affairs specialist Donna Wiesner Keene, a veteran of the
Bush and Reagan administrations and the wife of the incoming president
of the National Rifle Association, [and longtime CPAC pres.] David Keene.
Donna
Keene said she will act as an intermediary between the field
and Washington, helping activists connect effectively with lawmakers to
influence policy and advising potential first-time candidates. She has
lobbied for conservative groups such as Americans for Fair Taxation in
the past, but she is not registered as a lobbyist for the
TheTeaParty.net.
“There are a lot of questions about Washington,” she said in an
interview with Roll Call. “How do we stay active? What issues need
attention? That takes someone like me who understands Washington.”
But it’s not clear what TheTeaParty.net is active in. Despite its
extensive website and an impressive ability to pull in money, TheTeaParty.net appears to do little more than promote its own name.
Unlike several large tea party organizations, whose leaders
frequently discuss specific goals and agenda items with journalists,
TheTeaParty.net acts quietly as an online meeting place and resource for
hundreds of other tea party groups. Cefaratti, the man behind the
group, rarely, if ever, speaks to the press and did not return numerous
phone calls to his home or office. The group’s spokeswoman said he was
too busy for an interview.
“We are not a normal tea party group that has meetings and things
like that,” spokeswoman Vicki Dooling said. “We are a gatherer of other
tea partyers.”
Cefaratti, who splits his time between his marketing consulting
business and a second company that specializes in connecting loan
officers with seniors interested in reverse mortgages, set up
TheTeaParty.net last year as the tea party movement started to galvanize
voters and dollars around “outsider” Republican candidates.
At the same time, he established a political action committee, called
Stop This Insanity, which raised nearly $500,000 in the months leading
up to the 2010 midterm elections. From March to October 2010, the
committee spent just less than half that. Nearly all of its expenditures
went to advertising services, airfare, lodging and promotional
paraphernalia such as buttons and T-shirts, according to federal
records.
The group has left very little trail since it was founded last
spring, organizing few, if any, events. Federal records show no
donations to candidates in the last election cycle....
TheTeaParty.net
was
also one of several organizations that sponsored
the 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference, (CPAC) the high-profile
confab held every year in Washington. That is where Cefaratti met Keene,
whose husband is the former president of the American Conservative
Union, which sponsors the conference....
It appears that the organization also makes money off its mailing
list. Emails obtained by Roll Call reveal that the group has rented its
200,000-person mailing list to companies such as Gold Rarities Gallery,
an online gold and silver warehouse.
An advertising representative at Newsmax said he helps
TheTeaParty.net find clients and confirmed that the list is available
for $7,000 ($35 for every thousand names). Dooling said no personal
information is released to third parties during the process.
Questions about the legitimacy of TheTeaParty.net — also known as
JoinTheTeaParty.us — are rife throughout the blogosphere and among the
leaders of other tea party groups.
Some top conservatives have never even heard of the group, and other
tea party leaders have only a vague understanding of what the group is
and what it does."...
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Everyone knows Establishment groups ACU and CPAC scorn and laugh at the real Tea Party. Norquist is a CPAC board member:
4/14/11,"ACU’s
Cardenas Questions Tea Party’s Grasp Of Principles,"
RedState.com, Tom in Florida
2/14/11, "Rush: 'Tea party was under assault at CPAC'," World Net Daily, Drew Zahn
2/11/12,
"The
American Conservative Union: neutralizing the conservative movement," Jim Lampe, RedState.com
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Yet this alleged TP
group even sponsors a CPAC cruise with Norquist among featured passengers:
7/27/11,
"ACU and TheTeaParty.net Announce Two New Speakers for CPAC Alaskan Cruise"
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"Grassroots group forms first ever Tea Party advocacy
group, including former Congressman J.D. Hayworth, conservative
activists Niger Innis and Bob Adams, to push for smaller government on
Capitol Hill"
Washington D.C. - "The nation’s largest Tea Party
group announced today the creation of its new advocacy arm — the first
of its kind. With over 600,000 members and over 1.3 million supporters
on Facebook, TheTeaParty.Net has
been a leading opponent of any legislation that increases taxes or
raises the debt, including this week’s deal on the fiscal cliff....
"TheTeaParty.net is a national non-profit 501(c)(4) organization created
in 2009 for the education and advancement of the constitutional
conservative values of the Tea Party movement."
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Norquist is a CPAC board member
:
2/14/11,
"Rush: 'Tea party was under assault at CPAC'," World Net Daily, Drew Zahn
"Talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh, himself considered a conservative
icon, blasted this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference for
drowning out tea partiers and those concerned with social issues,
lamenting, “That’s not the CPAC that I’ve always thought of or known.”
Saying he was concerned that “I might just drum myself out of a
movement,” Limbaugh blamed the “ruling class” at CPAC for missing the
message of the 2010 election, namely that there is “an
unmistakable
conservative ascendancy happening in this country,”
evidenced most
prominently in the tea-party movement.
“But at CPAC, you didn’t get the impression here that there was a
conservative ascendancy going on.
You had a lot of people saying, ‘We
gotta do something about that faction,’” Limbaugh said on his program
today. “The tea party was under assault in its own way at CPAC. And you
in the tea party understand full well
the ruling class is not happy with
you.
And it was clearly obvious.”...
"Does the left ever hold a convention and say,
‘You know what, we gotta get rid of the Huffington Post people,’ or ‘We
gotta deemphasize the Daily Kos?’ Does the left ever do anything it does
to appeal to its enemies?”"...
================================
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The NY Times says the Tea Party "nearly captured control of the Republican Party:"
12/26/12, "Clout Diminished, Tea Party Turns to Narrower Issues," NY Times, Trip Gabriel
"The Tea Party
might not be over, but it is increasingly clear that the election last
month significantly weakened the once-surging movement, which nearly
captured control of the Republican Party through a potent combination of populism and fury."...
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More on GOP co-opting TP, early tea party activist who mailed tea bags to congress and pres. says tea party movement has been hijacked by GOP. GOP 'has stolen anger of a population' fed up with GOP theft of their tax money, funneling it to Wall St. and electing cronies:
10/20/10, "To The Tea Party: Go Screw Yourself," market-ticker.org
(Video of Karl Denninger MSNBC interview with Dylan Ratigan previous night)....
"Why I and others led people to mail tea bags to Congress and our President in the first place: rampant theft of over taxpayer money propping up FAILED private businesses.
"Tea Party my ass. This was nothing other than
The Republican Party stealing the anger of a population that was fed up with
The Republican Party's own theft of their tax money at gunpoint to bail out the robbers of Wall Street
and fraudulently redirecting it back toward electing the very people who stole all the ****ing money! ...
The Tea Party was and
is about the the corruption of American Politics and the blatant and
outrageous theft from all Americans that has resulted. It is about
personal responsibility and enforcement of the law against those who
have robbed, financially raped and pillaged the nation.
Yet today we hear literally nothing about these issues among the so-called "Tea Party" candidates and their backers."...
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8/14/11, Todd Cefaratti says TheTeaParty.net used to be a PAC but isn't anymore. Apparently changed their minds by 2012.
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