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Americans for Tax Reform’s Ryan Ellis Thinks Tea Party Activists Are “Freaking Retarded”
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | October 24th, 2013 at 01:13
When last we checked in on Ryan Ellis, the Tax Policy Director for Americans for Tax Reform, he was online saying Ted Cruz can go to hell and comparing Cruz to Aaron Burr.
Not content to express his hatred of Cruz, Ellis is now going after the tea party. Like with Cruz, his tweet speaks for itself:
Grover Norquist, Who has Ties to Actual Terrorists, Calls Tea Party “Terrorists”
October 25, 2013 By Daniel Greenfield
October 25, 2013, 7:46 AM EDT5261
Americans for Tax Reform Policy Director Ryan Ellis criticized what he called “defund terrorists” for their failed attempt to derail Obamacare on a conservative listserv, the Daily Beast reported Friday.
In an Oct. 17 email reviewed by the Daily Beast and sent to a listserv called the Repeal Coalition List, made up of about 200 conservative activists and writers, Ellis wrote that “the Repeal Coalition was hijacked by Defund terrorists. They flew the plane in a new direction and assured us that x, y, and z would follow. Not only did they not follow, but in fact a, b, and c happened.”
In 1998, Abdurahman Alamoudi, a self-described “supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah,” took an interest in Norquist, whom he knew to be one of the Republican Party’s most influential networkers.
The Treasury Department later identified Alamoudi as one of Al-Qaeda’s top North American fundraisers.
One of the organizations that Alamoudi funded was Norquist’s Islamic Free Market Institute, which was also funded by the Saudis and the governments of Qatar and Kuwait.