Admitting you have no clue about a group in your own back yard is not a great selling point.
They claim to be doing all this training for tea party groups. Yet they never contacted the regional tea party that includes their headquarters? You believe that?
Why not? It seems that they're a group with national focus, headquartered in VA but with most of their activity coming in middle America, from Texas to Minnesota.
You've seen Erick Erickson's response, where he called you out for your ill-founded attacks on this conservative activist group.
So what if they didn't stroke your ego by kow-towing to some regional self-appointed tea party leaders?
Get over it. Conservative groups don't have to get your personal blessing to have a HQ in northern VA.
No, Crichton, they are *LYING*
I saw Erick cut and paste from their press release. The problem is that the Ryuns’ press release ISN’T TRUE. You can cut and paste all you want from their promotional materials. The question is... is it TRUE?
If they were actually involved in the tea party movement, they would be involved in the tea party in their own backyard.
NOTE: We are not talking about whether they are VENDORS (which is what they actually are).
They are running a BUSINESS providing (bad) training.
They are NOT tea party leaders.
I do not dispute that the Ryuns are profiteering by running a training / seminar business.
But they could not be tea party leaders without EAGERLY getting to know the tea party groups in their own bakcyard. They could not be truly interested in the tea party movement and NOT reach out to the tea party group in their area.
When someone truly cares about and is part of the tea party movement, they would be showing up at events right in their backyard, calling up the NVTP on the phone, getting on the mailing list... and suggesting training.
When the NVTP held campaign training, the guy who lives 2 miles from American Majority’s official address in Purcellville never heard of them and used a DIFFERENT company to provide campaign training to the NVTP.
THey may be cash-hungry profiteers seeking to be vendors.
But tea party leaders, they ain’t.