Jason Levin was a middle school teacher who promoted a group called Crash the Tea Party.
He was an agent provocateur who showed up at Tea Party rallies with misspelled signs to attract the attention of the media who believed he was a legitimate member of the Tea Party. He would then give obnoxious comments to the media. He was eventually outed and fired:
Notorious Tea Party Crasher, Jason Levin, Crashes Gubernatorial Debate in Oregon
Longtime readers of this blog may remember “Tea Party Crasher” Jason Levin, the middle school teacher from Oregon who made quite a splash in 2010 with his “Crash the Tea Party” campaign to discredit conservatives.
At the height of his “influence”, he told the AP that he “had over 65 leaders in major cities across the country trying to recruit members to infiltrate tea party events for April 15.”
The mission of crashtheteaparty.org is simple. “Infiltrate and dismantle” the movement from the inside out. The group’s strategy is to impersonate tea party supporters and portray them as right-wing extremists in front of the news cameras in order to discredit the cause.
Interesting.