Too bad Tea Party Nation and Express are just fundraising groups who stayed out of this fight until the last minute. DO NOT GIVE THEM A PENNY! Only Jenny Beth Martin and Tea Party Patriots are the legit group who fought early and strong while shysters like Phillips stayed silent.
You can take that info to the bank. The “express” et al are a bunch of people looking to cash in on the work and dedication of the Tea Party Patriots. You’ll probably notice that there was no flag-word in the IRS machinery, “Express”-——
Too bad Tea Party Nation and Express are just fundraising groups who stayed out of this fight until the last minute. DO NOT GIVE THEM A PENNY! Only Jenny Beth Martin and Tea Party Patriots are the legit group who fought early and strong while shysters like Phillips stayed silent.
The Tea Party Express was inspired to form by a Tea Party organized and put on by Free Republic dot com on February 27, 2009 (inspired by Santelli's rant on CNBC), the website you are posting on.
We had a very successful tea party on the Capitol steps in Sacramento, and I went to the office of Our Country Deserves Better PAC and invited them to come to the tea party about an hour before it started.
One of the speakers for OCDBPAC was the MC (at my invitation) and many of those later part of The Tea Party Express were at the tea party put on by FR
On the same day, Feb 27, the Tea Party Patriots organized a few dozen other tea parties across the country.
Mark Meckler, one of the founders of TPP--along with the other founders Jenny Beth Martin and Amy Kremer (they were NOT at this FR Tea Party, just included them for informational purposes)--Mark was at our FR tea party but had NOTHING to do with organizing it.
A few months later, I saw an interview with Meckler for a paper and in the interview he stated that HE had organized and put on the Tea Party that FR put on in Sacramento, CA on Feb 27.
Amy Kremer left the TPP and joined the TPX as spokesperson and was on many nationwide tours (along with myself and sometimes Jim Robinson, the owner and creator of Free Republic.)
This incurred the rath of Mark Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin as they did not want any competition so that THEY could be seen as THE tea party, and them selves as leaders of the ENTIRE TPM.
Mark Meckler eventually left the TPP and also was arrested for illegally having a gun in New York.
When a group put on a Tea Party in Wash DC on a day when TPP also had an event, Jenny Beth Martin came over to the other Tea Party with an electronic bullhorn and told the people to come over to their event. No one went, the tea party they had organized was doing just fine and didn't need to go up TPP's event attendance. SOP for TPP.
Speaking of Tea Party Nation, Sarah Palin headlined the first-ever Tea Party Convention in Feb of 2010, put on by Phillips and the TPN.
montag813, if anyone is a shyster, it is Meckler and Martin, and now you for posting misinformation and bad mouthing real Tea Party people and organizations.
The "express" et al are a bunch of people looking to cash in on the work and dedication of the Tea Party Patriots.--SegoviaQuite the opposite, in fact COMPLETELY the opposite.
Get your facts straight, or actually use some facts instead of just badmouthing others with misinformation.