Alaska's version of tea party takes root in Palin's Hometown of Wasilla

[RamboLiberal]

WASILLA -- The foothold for Alaska's nascent tea party effort is in Wasilla, where Sarah Palin got her political start and members of the movement are seeking to become a force in upcoming elections.

Many in Wasilla still have deep loyalties to Palin, but the real concern among tea partiers has nothing to do with the hometown political hero. The real reason many have gotten involved in grass-roots politics is what they see as government intrusion, eroding civil liberties and out-of-control federal spending.

Within the past year, the Conservative Patriots Group has grown from a scattering of disaffected voices into arguably the best organized and most visible tea-party-type group in Alaska.

While small compared with the state's political parties, claiming "several hundred" dues-paying members, the Conservative Patriots have become involved in local elections, working to defeat a sales-tax initiative and to win Assembly seats for conservative candidates. The group recently launched a conservative radio talk show and wants to vet candidates it might support in 2010 elections.



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