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The Latest Tea Party Scam Called From (202) 750-2399 (Actual Headline)
Redstate ^ | 12/22/2014 | Erick Erickson

Posted on 12/22/2014 9:36:00 AM PST by JSDude1

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Sadly the scumbuckets and scam artists (as well as the political class) are helping to destroy the tea party by taking advantage of many people. QUESTION: WHY Didn't the I.R.S. go after these types of National "Tea Party" groups, but did go after small community based groups???
1 posted on 12/22/2014 9:36:01 AM PST by JSDude1
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To: JSDude1

I get calls from the Tea Party, Newt Gingrich, and David Bossie, and I let them go to voicemail which they never leave any message.


2 posted on 12/22/2014 9:40:33 AM PST by DLfromthedesert (She accomplished nothing: should have stayed at home and baked cookies)
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To: JSDude1

They called me too. Wanted money. I think they are indeed a scam. They got hold of a list somehow of people like us.

....

I said I’m not joining anything. I support individual candidates.

Then I said some not nice things.


3 posted on 12/22/2014 9:42:45 AM PST by Principled (Government Slowdown using the budget process!)
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To: JSDude1

Ya think that some GOPe type may have sold a list?


4 posted on 12/22/2014 9:43:19 AM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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To: JSDude1

I’m reading an interesting scifi book called “Afterparty.” It’s about life in the near future wherein anyone can get a “chemjet printer” and make any designed drug they want. Of course, society collapses. That aside, there is one page in which a character gives a rant about the evil Tea Party and how members are all corrupt lunatics and how dangerous it was “before it disappeared.” I almost stopped reading there, but the cost of the book kept me going.


5 posted on 12/22/2014 9:45:20 AM PST by pabianice (LINE)
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To: JSDude1

I find it difficult to believe that it was actually the Tea Party.


6 posted on 12/22/2014 9:46:06 AM PST by ColdSteelTalon (Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
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Anyone can call themselves the Tea Party.

Meaningless.

Where is their membership roll?


7 posted on 12/22/2014 9:46:40 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Life is good.)
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Ask them for the contact info for their registered agent and the actual name and address under which they are doing business. If they cannot give that information then they are not legit.


8 posted on 12/22/2014 9:47:29 AM PST by ColdSteelTalon (Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
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To: SaxxonWoods

exactly, the TEA PARTY is not a party, there is no membership roll at a national level.

Grass roots, tend to be Local and simultaneously local all over.


9 posted on 12/22/2014 9:48:45 AM PST by 4Speed
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To: Slyfox

Only if they didn’t make so much from selling their sould.


10 posted on 12/22/2014 9:49:43 AM PST by DPMD
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To: Slyfox

Only if they didn’t make so much from selling their souls.

Fixed.


11 posted on 12/22/2014 9:50:04 AM PST by DPMD
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To: JSDude1

These days I don’t trust anyone. Phone calls, emails, Internet pop ups and ads are a waste of time with me. When I want something, I’ll contact them. Everything else is a waste of time.


12 posted on 12/22/2014 9:50:49 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The trouble with America is that it's full of Americans. - The commie DemocRATS.)
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To: DPMD

Justice would be Bill and Hillary and Obama all sharing the same stinking, burning cave-hole in Hell.


13 posted on 12/22/2014 9:52:34 AM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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I have an unlisted phone number and am on the national do not call list, yet the calling continues.

Uh, it's scammer. If they are willing to do a $100 fraud at best, and id/credit card fraud at worse, do you think a simple list is going to stop them?

Any way, put the number into http://800notes.com, and you'll see that they also have been claiming to be the IRS, etc.

14 posted on 12/22/2014 9:55:51 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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It’s been a while—it was sometime right before or right after the 2012 election.

I got a call from some group and they were somehow connected to Rand Paul. I think it was something about Unions? It was a while back.

I pondered that call a bit because I’ve never supported either politician (Rand or Ron), I’ve never been a part of any of their websites, I just couldn’t figure out why they were calling.


15 posted on 12/22/2014 9:57:52 AM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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I got the call, too, and asked some questions. The person on the phone did not know anything about the issues. If it's not entirely a scam, it's certainly a group that will use any money they get for their own agenda.

I'm not giving anything to groups anymore, unless it's established and has a proven track record. It's better to give something to a candidate who's making an important contribution to constitutional conservative principles in their campaign.

JMHO

16 posted on 12/22/2014 9:59:11 AM PST by grania
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If you ever give your phone number or address to any party group or candidate, and especially if you ever give any of them money, that information will be sold or given away so that before you know it, you will be getting calls or mail from groups or candidates that you have never even heard of.

It’s called a sucker list.


17 posted on 12/22/2014 9:59:37 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
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" ...my unlisted, “do not call” number."

So you gave your unlisted phone number to the do not call list and wonder why you're getting calls? Really?

18 posted on 12/22/2014 10:00:20 AM PST by Calamari (Pass enough laws and everyone is guilty of something.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

thought so....


19 posted on 12/22/2014 10:01:41 AM PST by Mrs. B.S. Roberts
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To: JSDude1

Anybody can call themselves the TEA party.


20 posted on 12/22/2014 10:02:51 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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