The live stream is working quite well.
If not, this should
Not going to do it on principle. I'll read about it and see clips somewhere else. They want to restrict their audience, I'll help them out.
This was the convention Michelle Bachman, Marsha Blackburn, and others dropped out of because of the sense that it was just another entrepreneurial hijacking of the movement-—get big crowds, big speakers, etc. together in one place, and you can expect big revenue. Ripe for the skimming. The
guy who founded/organized this, Judson Phillips, was setting up rather hefty fees to be allowed into the inner circle, and get face time with some of these speakers. One of the fees I saw was $569.00
In DC, this is EXACTLY what the sleazeballs we’re trying to get rid of, do and have done, and will continue to do.It’s always explained as merely a form of fundraising, and in this case , I assure you, like the others, it’s primarily going into the pockets of these self-appointed ‘leaders’.
Except for Sarah Palin, there’s nary a one who has much to say to the rank and file Tea Party movement, and I frankly am embarrassed to find Palin didn’t drop out like Michelle B. She will pay for this, I think, in a lack of credibility, even if she gives her speaking fee (over 100K) back to “the cause”.And I’m suprised also that Breitbart would be part of this crap.
Oh there are!!!
This speaker is so good!!!