Posted on 01/04/2013 8:18:47 AM PST by Baynative
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.
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>> Folks, BEWARE ANY GOP FRONTED TEA PARTY GROUP.
Happy to see this article, but your words of caution are very necessary.
I wish it was not. But we have seen it before and we WILL see it again. Maybe this thing is legit, maybe it’s another front. Either way, “Trust but verify”.
The majority of those within government will never decrease their size. They exist to grow government, not shrink it.
Life is full of the surprises of reality.
theteaparty.net is registered to Todd Cefaratti. This is his profiteering deal. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/29/arizona-tea-party-group-469000-donations-spent-politics-report/
The day AFTER the Republicans sell-out their constituents on the tax and spend bill, this Tea Party group decides to get serious. Great timing boys. What have you been doing for the past two years? As far as I can tell, the Tea Party declared victory after November 2010 and went home. They certainly didn’t make an impact on either the Republican primaries or the 2012 election.
No, no, it’s white people with views they don’t like who are called racist. Black people with views they don’t like are called house slaves. Got to get the vocabulary right!
Good, serious, honest think tanks can help the cause. They can do the research and presentation on forthcoming legislation and hand it out to Congress.
That said, the group may not be one of them.
BTTT.
Sounds good. We need to snap out of the doldrums.
Will it amount to anything more than a hill of beans?
GeeOpie - My party has a size of 1.
NO SALE
“Trust but verify,” in that order, helped us get to where we are today.
We don’t need groups. We need ONE PROMINENT CONSERVATIVE CONGRESSPERSON who is willing to stand up and repeatedly warn his/her colleagues and the country of the looming catastrophe ahead if Congress doesn’t cut taxes and spending.
This prominent person would do what Winston Churchill did in the 1930s when he repeatedly warned about the catastrophe ahead if Britain didn’t rearm to meet the looming threat of Nazi Germany. He didn’t stop speaking in the face of ridicule and opposition, and was therefore available to lead the country when his prophecies came true.
However, not a single Republican Congressperson — not even the head of the Congressional Tea Party Caucus — seems willing to assume the similar role of sounding the alarm about our overwhelming debt and the threats of bankruptcy and depression.
Until such a leader comes forward, Tea Partiers and Tea Party groups and organizations will be little more than a bunch of well-meaning but powerless people wandering around in the wilderness.
Were it me I’d ban any GOP member that did not publicly and thoroughly renounce the party before I let them in. If at all. But few are willing to do that. So TbV is the best we can hope for from any ‘national’ group.
Which likely means you are correct.
There are a few of them out there, but the media is working hard to keep the public from getting to know them. Today Mark Levin interviewed Ted Cruz in the second hour of his show. If you don't alread know Texas Senator Ted Cruz, this is worth listening to while you're at the keyboard.
I already see pessimistic replies to this new advocacy group. This is why the left always wins. They stay united for a common goal. We, on the other hand, always fight amongst ourselves and we always end up quarreling and divided and the left pounds us as a result. We have to start somewhere and this has to be a starting point. We can’t back down to them anymore. The country is at stake.
Stupid.
The only advocacy that counts on the Hill happens on Election Day. And, sad to say, they all have gotten the message.
The People have spoken, and said thusly: “Cut taxes, raise spending, make sure we can f*** who we want, where, when, and how we want, and send the bill to somebody else”.
Congress does exactly what We the People want. The bastards.
Absolutely. It's been said that the right never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
While over on the left, the gays support code pink and the vegans support the tribes and the environmentalists support the race baiters the infighting on the right brings people to war over who is most stringent one any single issue and anyone not perfect is out. So, they'll take their ballot and go home instead of supporting a candidate they agree with 85% of the time.
Todd Cefaratti signed up in Feb 2011 and started posting on the thread.
WHO IS THIS?It'a a copy cat Faux Tea Party group along the lines of Tea Party Patriots. That is, it exists mainly to generate money for the people at the top.
jointheteaparty.us ^ | August 25, 2010 | swampsniper
Posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 7:36:20 PM by SWAMPSNIPER
I just heard an ad for this site on the radio, not much meat on the site. Does anyone know who is behind this effort?
Refering to the thread in his first comment on it, he states "It looks like this blog was started to look in to the validity of our organization."
FR was started about 15 years before his noticing it, and is NOT a blog.
He refers to the Tea Party Movement as "our movement."
If you donate $100, they will give you a few trinkits "free of charge." Hmmm, looks like they cost a C note.
All that is interesting, but this sentence really showed me where this org is at:
We also have used donations for events like our bus tour for 9/12 last year that started with senate candidate in Nevada Sharron Angle and ended at the US Capitol on 9/12.Hmmmm, he takes credit for a Tea Party Exress Bus Tour as if it was his own.
(I have traveled with every on of the Tea Party Express bus tours, and if he was around, he was in the background leaning how to fleece Tea Party members. Like Mark Meckler of the Tea Party Patriots who came to a Free Republic sponsored Tea Party on Feb 27, 2009 and was just here as a participant. Later in an interview, he said he organized our tea party that day.)
He freely admits to using most of the money collected to collect more money!
And email address, which was his main business before deciding that the Tea Party Movement could be a good way to extract money from concerned Conservative American Tea Party People.
Here is another therad exposting this guy and his tactics:
Tea Partiers Question Ariz.-Based Website Valley Company Collects Nearly $500K, Spends On MarketingHere is a Link To his "reverseleadsclub" money generator.
KPHO Arizona ^
Posted on Tuesday, March 01, 2011 4:26:36 PM by mnehring
PHOENIX -- A tea party organization based in Mesa, Ariz., which has collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, spent nearly half of its budget on marketing its own name, according to Federal Elections Commission documents.
Those records, obtained during a CBS 5 News investigation, also show the organization spent no money to directly support tea party candidates.
The website, JoinTheTeaParty.us is registered to a nonprofit corporation in Mesa. When CBS 5 News reporters contacted the director of that company, they were referred to a Washington, D.C., attorney, who said the personnel in Phoenix were too busy to sit down for an interview.
CBS 5 News began its investigation into the company after receiving a phone call from an East Coast tea party activist who said nobody within the tea party movement he had spoken to had heard of the Mesa organization.
The caller also told CBS 5 News it did not appear the organization was spending any of its donations to support tea party priorities.
Among the findings of the CBS 5 News investigation, the organization spent $181,000 on Google, Facebook and other websites for advertising. As a result, when CBS 5 producers typed the phrase, "tea party," into the Google search engine, the first paid advertisement that popped up was for JoinTheTeaParty.us.
Additional digging into the organization's background revealed the director of the nonprofit also has ties to companies that collect and sell people's personal information. Todd Cefaratti is listed as the director the the nonprofit, as well as a company known as reverseleadclub.com.
It's too bad that some good conservatives are hooked up with this org.
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