GOP "consultants" ripped off tebaggers
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From: Cliff on 15 Apr 2010 03:44 http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/joe_conason/2010/04/14/teaparty "How GOP consultants ripped off "tea party"" [ A year ago, "tea party" emerged as a right-wing brand with electoral potential. And a GOP firm planned its rip-off Meet the new boss, same as the old (Republican) boss. Or so disgruntled tea party activists worry, according to an excellent report in Politico today on the true origins and control of the Tea Party Express operation by major California-based GOP consultants Russo Marsh & Rogers. Manipulation of the would-be revolutionaries of the right by the Republican establishment's usual suspects isn't exactly shocking news. But Politico's Kenneth Vogel has unearthed an RM&R memo by Joe Wierzbicki that shows how boldly they planned the takeover. Written a year ago, following the first tea party protests, Wierzbicki's memo proposed to use the bus tours that became the Tea Party Express as a vehicle to promote Our Country Deserves Better, a PAC controlled by the consulting firm, and to position the firm for the 2010 elections. According to Vogel, the plan has been a huge success. The Russo firm's PAC receipts rose from $600,000 in the six months preceding the Tea Party Express launch last July to $2.7 million in the six months that followed. Naturally, a lot of that money has flowed into the pockets of RM&R for services to the PAC and the Tea Party Express. For angry activists who prefer their right-wing politics unadulterated by partisan scheming, the RM&R scheme is an outrage. Vogel quotes the PAC's former director, Kelly Eustis, complaining that the consultants are using the PAC and the Tea Party Express as a cash cow, ..... ] Teabaggers/wingers are so gullible ... and they may not even have mentioned Palin ... -- Cliff
From: Chief Egalitarian on 16 Apr 2010 23:31 > -- > Cliff trim
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