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5/30/13, "
Tea party organizers look to Senate," Politico, Tarini Parti
"The leader of the House Tea Party Caucus, Rep. Michele Bachmann, may have announced her
retirement, but organizers of the caucus say the tea party presence in Congress
is far from dead. In fact, it’s expanding to the Senate, POLITICO has learned.
The group plans to invite all Republicans in the upper chamber instead of limiting it to those supported by the tea party.
“What we’re going to put on in July in the Senate is going to be
unprecedented,” said Niger Innis, chief strategist of the group.
It’s unclear what role Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) will play at the meeting. At a
recent press conference on the IRS targeting tea party groups, Bachmann called Paul “the chair of the Tea Party Caucus in the U.S. Senate.”
An official Senate Tea Party Caucus does not yet exist, and Paul’s
office did not respond to requests for comment on whether he would lead
the meeting, but he did not dispute the title at the time. Innis said that although the group is disappointed to see Bachmann
leave Congress, her retirement will not affect the House group....
Roughly 20 House Republicans attended April’s closed-door caucus
meeting led by Bachmann, along with staffers from nearly 40
congressional offices, including those of Paul and Senate Minority
Leader Mitch McConnell.
Bachmann, facing investigations and a tough reelection race,
announced early Wednesday that she would not seek a fifth term. Her
retirement follows the departure of other tea party favorites — former
Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), who lost his seat in the 2012 election, and
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), who left to run The Heritage Foundation." via Lucianne
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TheTeaParty.net is exposed along with its pals CPAC, Grover Norquist
and Suhail Khan. Following are 9+ links explaining plus some financial information from the group's website:
A conservative blogger in early 2011 reports this is a FAKE Tea Party group:
4/5/11, "Evidence mounts TheTeaParty.net is a FAKE," conservative outlooks blog
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More on TheTeaParty.net from 2011:
4/29/11, Tea Party.net is a big supporter of CPAC, whose abject failure is one of the reasons the real Tea Party was born
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Fake TP group thinks Norquist and CPAC are the greatest:
3/8/13, "When Bloggers Attack: John Hawkins Takes A Dive for Grover Norquist," Atlas Shrugs, Pamela Geller
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3/8/13, "JihadWatch.com wins CPAC 'People's Choice Award' but is barred from receiving it (updated with response)," American Thinker, Thomas Lifson
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ACU and CPAC are establishment GOP groups that 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
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2/14/11, "Rush: 'Tea party was under assault at CPAC'," World Net Daily, Drew Zahn
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2/11/12,
"The
American Conservative Union: neutralizing the conservative movement," Jim Lampe, RedState.com
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The fake 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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OpenSecrets.org FEC records show this self-proclaimed TP group took in over $1 million and gave almost none of it to federal Tea Party candidates in 2012:
"TheTeaParty.net Leadership Fund"
2012 Total Receipts: $1,021,463
Total spent: $795,347
Contributions to federal candidates: $12,500
Electioneering, communication expenses, by targeted candidate: $182,673
Signed by Treasurer Ron Dove 5/2/12 (Ron Dove is also Treasurer of TheTeaParty.net)
"Official PAC name: THE TEA PARTY LEADERSHIP FUND
Location: WASHINGTON, DC 20003
Industry: Republican/Conservative
Treasurer: BACKER, DAN MR. ESQ.
FEC Committee ID: C00520825
(Look up actual documents filed at the FEC) "
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"THE TEA PARTY LEADERSHIP FUND
Continuing from their website:
8. "We
have a full-time Washington D.C. representative with the connections and
relationships there."...
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9. TTP.net's website says it gives to "ACU and CPAC"
But ACU and CPAC are dedicated to eliminating the TP and conservatives.
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Again from TTP.net website:
16. "TheTeaParty.net employs two "Freedom Lobbyists" who work with the
Tea Party Caucus in Congress to pass legislation in line with the core
values of the Tea Party movement."...
On 1/4/13 TheTeaParty.net trumpets hiring 3 new lobbyists as the "first ever" but the group has previously had two paid "Freedom Lobbyists" working with congress on supposed TP issues, per item #16 above from their website. Following is the 1/4/13 press release:
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1/4/13, "TEA PARTY ESTABLISHES CONGRESSIONAL ADVOCACY TEAM"
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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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More on GOP co-opting, an 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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Ed. note: This isn't the only fake TP group.
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