Activists Slam Plan For Tea Party Convention (Rancor in the Ranks)

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TPMMuckraker
'The Tea Party Movement Is About To Be Hijacked': Activists Slam Plan For Convention
Zachary Roth | January 11, 2010, 9:00AM


http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/the_tea_party_movement_is_about_to_be_hijacked_act.php?ref=mp

In the latest sign of rancor in Tea Party circles, a convention billed as an effort to bring together conservative activists from across the country is being attacked by some leading Tea Partiers as inauthentic, too tied to the GOP, and -- at $549 per head -- too expensive for the working Americans the movement aspires to represent.

The National Tea Party Convention, scheduled for early February in Nashville, grabbed headlines after announcing that Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann would appear as speakers, Palin as the keynote. According to a message on the convention's website, the event "is aimed at bringing the Tea Party Movement leaders together from around the nation." But organizers are a long way from unifying the notoriously fractious movement.

Late Update: RedState founder Erick Erickson -- an important voice in conservative activist circles -- is wary of the convention too. He writes:

...I think this national tea party convention smells scammy.

Let me be blunt: charging people $500.00 plus the costs of travel and lodging to go to a "National Tea Party Convention" run by a for profit group no one has ever heard of sounds as credible as an email from Nigeria promising me a million bucks if I fork over my bank account number. snip

more :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: I love it when teabaggers fight among themselves :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

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1. Sarah and Michelle are high maintenance don't

ya know. What a bunch of leeches.