The national advocacy team is made up of:
* J.D. Hayworth, National Advisor, TheTeaParty.net. Congressman J.D. Hayworth served six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he represented Arizona’s 5th and 6th districts. He challenged Senator John McCain in the 2010 GOP primary. Hayworth remains involved in conservative politics in Arizona.
* Niger Innis, National Outreach Director, TheTeaParty.net. A longtime conservative activist, Niger Innis is also the National Spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), one of the ‘Big Four’ civil rights groups in the United States. He is a frequent guest commentator for CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC providing insight and analysis on the day’s news events.
* Bob Adams, Capitol Hill Representative, TheTeaParty.net. Over the course of nearly two decades, Adams has served as a senior media consultant or campaign advisor to many conservative groups and candidates, including U.S. Senate candidate John Raese in 2012. He is also the founder of Revive America PAC, and the former executive director of the League of American Voters. Bob Adams began his career in conservative politics at the height of the ‘Republican Revolution” of 1994 as a press assistant to Congressman J.C. Watts, Jr.
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.
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.
VERY disappointed is FR admins for leaving this thread up. TheTeaParty.net is a scam group well known to FReepers (see the comments above) that exists purely for fundraising, has nothing to do with actual Tea Party folks, and does nothing to advance the cause.
Syncro,
I’ve had a chance to dig some more in this. It looks like this new group has gone legit. A lot of big names in the grassroots movement are latched on to this.
http://www.theteaparty.net/about-us/
Some that jump out are Jennifer Burke, Kevin Jackson and Scottie Hughes. They are well known and wouldn’t jump into any group that is bogus. I also think their IT guy, Rick Hill was one of the bodies behind The Tea Party Community which is the new social media site that is booming.
https://www.teapartycommunity.com/index.php?do=/
Syncro,
I’ve had a chance to dig some more in this. It looks like this new group has gone legit. A lot of big names in the grassroots movement are latched on to this.
http://www.theteaparty.net/about-us/
Some that jump out are Jennifer Burke, Kevin Jackson and Scottie Hughes. They are well known and wouldn’t jump into any group that is bogus. I also think their IT guy, Rick Hill was one of the bodies behind The Tea Party Community which is the new social media site that is booming.
https://www.teapartycommunity.com/index.php?do=/
As the GOP philosophy stands each individual player was to be ‘the one’ to ‘bring together’ the party. They have nothing to offer the party to solidify it. At least while the Dems are jockeying within their party for position and stature, they are able to go out to ‘divide’ and fragment the GOP. The GOP has the same infighting and want of personal recognition but, they don’t have a plan. And they share that non-plan as whimpering beaten players. No backbone or purpose aside from protecting their jobs.
Until there is a determined leader with the ranks of the GOP we’ll continue to see them roll over to have their tummy’s scratched.
Does anyone in the TEA party or on Freeperville know why Obama is taking a secret oath of office for the second time? Just wondering who he is making an oath to. The same person Saul Alinsky dedicates his books?