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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 8, 2010
CONTACT: Levi Russell at (509) 979-6615 or Levi@FrontLineStrat.com

Tea Party Groups Unite in National Tea Party Federation

Formation of “National Tea Party Federation” Announced

Broad Coalition of National, Regional Groups and Local Groups

Uniting for Messaging and Rapid Media Response

Advocacy & Affiliated Groups Participate

***NEWS CONFERENCE:

Minnesota State Capitol - St. Paul, MN - 9:00 AM

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (April 8, 2010) - A broad coalition of national and regional Tea Party groups have announced the formation of the National Tea Party Federation (NTPF). The NTPF is established to create a unified message and media response amongst key leadership and their affiliates. At the same time, the NTPF will act as a clearinghouse and to promote the Tea Party movement’s objectives of:

Fiscal Responsibility
Constitutionally Limited Government
Free Markets

The federation includes key organizations and leadership and is committed to changing the dynamics of communicating clearly to its membership while supporting the aforementioned principles. The approach will allow for clarity of message, rapid response to media misinformation while continuing to build the brand equity of the Tea Party movement. The NTPF will act in unison without a central leadership or overhead yet collaborate through a common set of principles.

The founders of the National Tea Party Federation include the following Tea Party groups:

American Grassroots Coalition
Arkansas Unite
Cincinnati Tea Party
Constitutional TEA Party
DC Works For Us
Illinois Tea Party
New Jersey Tea Party Coalition
New Mexico Patriots
Orlando Tea Party
Pittsburgh Tea Party
ResistNet
Santee East County TEA Party
Take the Town Halls to Washington
Tea Party Express
Tea Party Nation
The Heart of Texas Tea Party
The Memphis TEA Party
The Mississippi Tea Party
Tupelo Tea Party
Waco Tea Party
We The People of Pennsylvania

The National Tea Party Federation is comprised of national, regional and local leadership that has worked to build trust amongst the various parties. The founding members will work to encourage other groups and leadership to join the federation thereby extending its impact and capabilities.

The federation was formed in response to a concerted effort of misinformation propagated by the main stream media. The federation will act as a “rapid response” team to mainstream media misinformation.

Jamie Radtke, further commented, “We have experienced the attempts to suggest that Tea Party members are not part of America’s mainstream. As a mother, I have made my best efforts to raise my voice to oppose the actions of this government for the benefit of my family, community and my country. We and the Virginia Tea Party Federation welcome this effort and the national exposure it will give our movement and our members.”

NTPF has also established alliances which include like-minded advocacy and support groups such as:

60 Plus
Americans for Prosperity
Americans for Tax Reform
Bannon Strategic Advisors
Citizens Against Government Waste
Citizens United
Constitutional Sovereignty Alliance
Contract From America
Doctor Patient Medical Association
Family Research Council
FreedomWorks
Heartland Institute
Institute for Liberty
Let Freedom Ring
Moms for America
National Taxpayers Union
Ronald Reagan Institute for Conservative Leadership
Richard Viguerie
Tea Party Patriots Live!
Victory Media Group

Mark A. Skoda of The Memphis Tea Party commented, “The combination of the Tea Party leadership and a strong network of alliances brings together activists with the resources to get our message out while coordinating across these many groups. The talent, experience and results orientation of the National Tea Party Federation is unprecedented in the current political environment.”

Amy Kremer, of American Grass Roots Coalition and a Director of TEA Party Express, commented, “As a woman and mother, my concerns for the country revolve around our message of smaller government and accountability. The NTPF provides a way in which we can coordinate our efforts nationally and respond to the antagonism of the Left through the media and hold them accountable to responsible reporting.”

Grass roots activists everywhere have worked to inform themselves, notify their representatives of their objections and take action in the form of rallies, meetings and calls into those representatives. Individual groups have worked tirelessly to assemble their members and deliver their comments to their elected legislators. However, the formation of the National Tea Party Federation will allow for a “clearinghouse” of messaging, media comment, local video and documentation while at the same time aligning the affiliates in “one message, one face.”

Skoda, further stated, “The Tea Party movement’s favorability is at an all time high of fifty-two percent. The extraordinary efforts, put forward by common citizens to make their voices heard, will now have a federation capable of national communication.”

Darla Dewald of ResistNet also commented, “The power of this federation is extraordinary. The leadership and advisors who have chosen to affiliate within the National Tea Party Federation are key activists with the capability to deliver a clear message while also working with their membership to achieve change.”

Maggie Hunt of the Santee East County Tea Party stated, “This federation, much like the United States itself, is a combination of large Tea Party organizations and smaller local groups. We are so please to play our part and to participate in this important effort. The time to align our messaging is now and the National Tea Party Federation will give voice to many more in the Tea Party movement.”

Dozens of other Tea Party leadership and affiliates have been invited into the National Tea Party Federation and are working through their review processes. The NTPF is an open federation and welcomes all Tea Party groups and affiliates who are committed to the core principles of fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government and free markets.

For further information or to register and participate in the National Tea Party Federation, please visit our website at www.thenationalteapartyfederation.com.

Contacts:

Diane Clohesy
dclohesy@mac.com
Phone: 310-266-0477

Christina Botteri
christina.k.bo@gmail.com
Phone: 916-315-8989

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Great, boy I bet this will scare the you-know-what out of the entrenched political W**res.

Please don’t let this forget who got them to this point.
This type of thing always worries me. Power hungry always gravitate to large orgs.

Will the various groups have a power of veto on “leader” positions. etc etc

Sounds very promising!

Don’t remember being asked, as a Tea Party participant, who is going to control Tea Parties or who the “leader” will be.

Sounds like someone is trying to make some power move and thinking they can herd cats.

“Americans for Prosperity
Americans for Tax Reform
Freedom works”

These are some groups the Tea Party needs to distance itself FAR away from!

Freedom works...DICK ARMEY, trying to hijack the movement for $$$$! Open border advocates.

Americans for Tax Reform...GROVER NORQUIST...RUN, Run fast, as far from this as possible! He wrote Bush’s Amnesty.

Americans for Prosperity...More Dick Armey, questionable ties
[snip]Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is a conservative think-tank established in Washington, D.C. in 2003. It replaced the Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation. AFP is the sister organization to FreedomWorks. FreedomWorks is an organization that formed in 2004 when Citizens for a Sound Economy merged with the think tank Empower America. Both the Citizens for a Sound Economy and Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation were created by the Koch Foundations.
http://www.americansforprosperity.org/national-site

Why is a Romney fmr aide on Fox speaking for NTPF?

Ots of these “alliance” organizations are GOP machine type orgs, run by/led by old GOPers out-to-pasture for whatever reasons. I am $keptical of the motive$ for thi$ federation and alliance$. If they don’t a$k u$ for $$$, I will be $urpri$ed.