By Janet DiGiacomo, CNN Ask different tea party volunteers in the days before Super Tuesday who the leading presidential candidate is and you will get different answers. Rick Santorum has a lot of support in our unscientific polls, said Mark West of the Chattanooga, Tennessee, Tea Party. Ron Paul is closest to our core values, [...]
The leader of the nation’s largest Tea Party network is disputing claims by a former top official that the group is too closely tied to the Republican Party, arguing that the movement continues to grow as an independent force bent on fighting the Washington culture of overspending. Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, [...]
By Jason Stein of the Journal Sentinel Madison — Tea party groups say they will be releasing a searchable database of the recall petitions against Gov. Scott Walker and four GOP senators. The Verify the Recall effort said in a statement that it is in the “final stages” of testing the program. It “will become [...]
By WANE.com FORT WAYNE, Ind. – On Wednesday, NewsChannel 15 will bring you a first-of-its-kind local TV broadcast titled Focus 15: Occupy vs. Tea Party. It will be a chance for local leaders affiliated with the two national movements to square off in a face-to-face forum. Local Tea Party leaders are eagerly anticipating the opportunity. [...]
By Alex Pappas – The Daily Caller Liberal billionaire and CNN founder Ted Turner accuses “the tea party people” in a new magazine profile of him of being “mean-spirited.” “It’s so heartbreaking to have [them] say that global warming is a hoax,” Turner says in a new Hollywood Reporter profile. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he admits to [...]
Two Tea Party groups say they’re thinking about going to court to force state officials to consider striking the questionable signatures the groups found on the Walker recall petitions.
The origins of the Tea Party are usually traced to Rick Santelli’s televised rant, which took place on Feb. 19, 2009 — by coincidence exactly 83 years to the day after Ayn Rand first set foot on American soil. A few anti- tax, anti-government rallies preceded the Santelli tirade, but he and his immediate predecessors usually get the nod for originating the movement.
BY KENRIC WARD’S | Sunshine State News Mark Meckler, a founder of the national Tea Party Patriots, resigned this week — and some Florida tea partiers are saying good riddance. Meckler’s resignation as national coordinator was accepted by the TPP board following “months of discussions and good-faith differences on how best TPP can serve the [...]
DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. – Who would have thought a kid born and raised in small town Canada would grow up to be a player in the 2012 U.S. Presidential election race?
The Indiana Election Commission is being asked to determine whether U.S. Senator Richard Lugar is a resident of the state and deserving of a place on this year’s ballot.
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