“30 percent admin is not out of line. Now, the marketing costs - once again, do any of your vendors have a fiduciary or direct relationship to principals in TheTeaParty.net? “
That was a great question, dirtboy, and I have to wonder if their marketing/advertising costs mostly go to TPNN...the tea party news network...their own outfit.
Open Secrets mentions that TeaParty.net administrative costs for 2012 were $27, 391. Not an outrageous amount, to be sure, unless you count the fact that they or The Tea Party News Network only have ‘virtual’ offices’ at $149.00 a month. Both entities (we don’t know how many more yet) use the same ‘office’....How convenient!
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From their website:
TheTeaParty.Net
1701 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Suite 300, PMB-433
Washington, DC 20006
Tel: 866-928-6555
Fax: 480-907-2495
Email: info@theteaparty.net
http://www.theteaparty.net/contact/http://www.theteaparty.net/contact/
From their email fundraiser which we get EVERY day:
Tea Party News Network
1701 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Suite 300, PMB-433
Washington, DC, 20006
United States
The second largest expenditure, $60,000 went to ‘media’...would that be TPNN...the tea party news network...ran by the same people in the same office? ...just askin’.....
By now you all should know that TPE, TPN, TPP, and ESPECIALLY theteaparty.net (TownHall.com) are all fakes who latched on to our name in 2009. The legit tea party was formed on Dec 16, 2007 and is still unfunded, has no representatives in DC, and is NOT a PAC created by GOP consultants and data miner.
When you join a tea party, make sure it is not affiliated with any of these fakes and that it is unfunded, volunteer-only, doesn’t work for political parties or campaigns or candidates but on issues such as Agenda 21 and the communism being fed to our kids in the public schools.