romacox
02-09-2010, 08:01 AM
How Many Tea Parties are there?
All of the speeches this week, and most activists when you ask them say they want to keep the movement grassroots – no formal leaders or organizing. “The tea party movement has no leader, and let me tell you something, neither did the American revolution,” Phil Valentino, a talk radio host who spoke just before Sarah Palin, said to raucous cheers from the crowd of 1,000+. If today proved anything, they're getting their wish.
Read more: http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/02/06/will-the-real-tea-party-please-stand-up/
(http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/02/06/will-the-real-tea-party-please-stand-up/)
Tea Party Patriots say no to Tea Party Express (http://notpexpress.wordpress.com/statements/california-tea-party-patriots/)
Tea Party Express says no to Tea Party Nation:
"With Tea Party Patriots we have three core values: fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government and free markets," Jenny Beth Martin, a co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, explained to moderator John Dickerson.
Her group voiced concern over the more than $500 entrance fee the Tea Party Nation charged this weekend to host Palin, who's speaking fee was reported to be $100,000. Tea Party Nation said the convention hosted by a different "tea party" organization veered away from the core values of the grassroots movement.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/02/08/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry6187311.shtml
The Tea Party Nation has it's headquarters in The Republican Party offices, and is believed to be an attempt by the Republican Party to take over the movement. Many Tea Party organizations boycotted the Nashville Tea Party event put on by Tea Party Nation saying "it is not what we are about."
All of the speeches this week, and most activists when you ask them say they want to keep the movement grassroots – no formal leaders or organizing. “The tea party movement has no leader, and let me tell you something, neither did the American revolution,” Phil Valentino, a talk radio host who spoke just before Sarah Palin, said to raucous cheers from the crowd of 1,000+. If today proved anything, they're getting their wish.
Read more: http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/02/06/will-the-real-tea-party-please-stand-up/
(http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/02/06/will-the-real-tea-party-please-stand-up/)
Tea Party Patriots say no to Tea Party Express (http://notpexpress.wordpress.com/statements/california-tea-party-patriots/)
Tea Party Express says no to Tea Party Nation:
"With Tea Party Patriots we have three core values: fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government and free markets," Jenny Beth Martin, a co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, explained to moderator John Dickerson.
Her group voiced concern over the more than $500 entrance fee the Tea Party Nation charged this weekend to host Palin, who's speaking fee was reported to be $100,000. Tea Party Nation said the convention hosted by a different "tea party" organization veered away from the core values of the grassroots movement.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/02/08/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry6187311.shtml
The Tea Party Nation has it's headquarters in The Republican Party offices, and is believed to be an attempt by the Republican Party to take over the movement. Many Tea Party organizations boycotted the Nashville Tea Party event put on by Tea Party Nation saying "it is not what we are about."