I don't believe so.Faster horses said:Sickening. But true.
I wonder...is Tea Party News Network the same as Tea Party.net? They just called here...they are trying to keep Obamacare from being implemented by the IRS.
Local politics: I'm a member and active supporter of the Liberal Democrats, the UK's third largest (but most progressive) party.
If this is anything, it's the (minimalist) home page of Tom Yates. What it isn't is anything to do with the US's astroturfed Tea Party movement. Having read this story on the BBC's website, I want to make it clear that I have no sympathy whatsoever for their positions and views.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/03/25/Tea-Party-News-Network-Writer-Displays-Ignorance-In-Falsely-Slamming-PalinTea Party News Network Director Falsely Smears Palin
In a bizarre rant--or "open letter"--at Townhall, Scottie Hughes, the news director for the Tea Party News Network, falsely accuses former Alaska Governor and Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin of rushing out of this year's CPAC and having a pattern of ignoring grassroots conservatives.
While Hughes's motivation for writing such a column may only be known to her, her accusations are demonstrably false.
Hughes also implied that Palin only speaks to the grassroots through the teleprompter, but this accusation again does not even pass the smell test.
Jason Recher, a Palin staffer who has been with Palin at nearly every event since 2008, told Breitbart News Palin never asks for a teleprompter. In fact, reporters have often said Palin improvises during her speeches, which forces reporters to pay attention to every word in order to quote her accurately.
Hughes, with no evidence whatsoever, alleges Palin made a "rush to the exits" at this year's CPAC, implying Palin did not have time for the grassroots.
Again, not true.
As the photos below indicate, Palin spent time after the speech meeting with volunteers.
Sitting this one out is voting for Obama. TPNN is voting for Obama. That’s all I need to know.
Meckler co-founded the Tea Party Patriots organization in March 2009, along with Jenny Beth Martin and Amy Kremer.
Meckler and Martin co-authored a book, Tea Party Patriots: The Second American Revolution, which was published in February 2012.[8] Shortly after the book was published, Meckler resigned from the Tea Party Patriots, citing differences with Martin and other board members over how the organization was being managed
In February 2009, Martin’s home was in foreclosure and her husband Lee’s temp agency was in bankruptcy. Despite this, Martin and her husband turned down a federal loan to save their house. Martin said she and her husband didn’t believe it was the right thing to do. Instead, Martin and her husband began cleaning houses. It was while in the car on the way to a job that Martin heard Rick Santelli’s rant. “This is America! How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor’s mortgages [when they have] an extra bathroom and can’t pay their bills?” [4] Martin credits Santelli’s words with goading her into action against the bail-out. Shortly after, Martin organized the first tea party rally in Atlanta. By June, 2009, Martin had formed Tea Party Patriots, along with Amy Kremer and Mark Meckler. Meckler has since left the organization
http://www.alternet.org/story/150902/5_professional_tea_partiers%3A_who%27s_sucking_the_most_money_from_the_movementWhen we looked at leaders of the best-known Tea Party groups, we found most making a rather handsome living off the ostensibly salt-of-the-earth movement. And despite the Tea Party mantra that women run the movement, we found that two of the best-known female faces of the movement -- Amy Kremer of Tea Party Express and Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots -- earn rather modest salaries in comparison with their male colleagues.
Amy Kremer, the Express' director of grassroots and coalitions, earned a mere $49,000 during the same period, despite the fact that she often represents Tea Party Express at rallies and in the media. Meanwhile, Jenny Beth Martin, national coordinator of Tea Party Patriots, the successful organization founded by FreedomWorks, takes in $72,000 a year, a middling level of compensation when compared with the six-figure salaries reaped by FreedomWorks' male leaders.
Many have assumed that he was devoting all of his time to the tea party, largely because earlier this year he sent out an appeal to local tea partiers pleading poverty and asking for money.
Meckler's professional experience in the world of multilevel marketing seems to have translated quite well into the tea party movement.
The solicitation apparently raised some cash for the Mecklers, even while raising some eyebrows among local activists who, even without knowing about his MLM background, have begun raising red flags about what they see as Meckler's keen interest in the tea party movement's one real asset: its contact database. It's loaded with the names of highly politically engaged people who might be inclined to donate money to candidates—or, more cynically, people susceptible to conspiracy theories who might be interested in buying some overpriced gold, or perhaps a too-good-to-be-true weight-loss pill.
Meckler came under fire earlier this year when news broke that, in 2007, UniqueLeads had spun off another company called Opt-In Movement, in conjunction with a DC-based GOP consultant David All, to create a list-generation firm that catered to political campaigns.