Posted on 12/03/2012 7:45:29 PM PST by Nachum
Former congressman Dick Armey has quit FreedomWorks, the conservative group he helped bring to national tea party prominence.
Armey confirms that he wrote a letter to FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe on Nov. 30, resigning from the group, as first reported by Mother Jones. He told the Post that he does not know who leaked his resignation letter.
“We accepted his letter of resignation and we wish him well,” FreedomWorks press secretary Jackie Bodnar said.
“As I resign from all board positions and duties, please see below a list of dispositions on outstanding issues: I expect to be fully compensated through the expiration date (December 31, 2012) of my current consulting contract with FreedomWorks,” he wrote. “Henceforth FreedomWorks shall be prohibited from using my name, image, or signature in any way or for any purpose without my written permission or in the event of my death, without my heirs written permission.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Yeah, he is not the brightest knife shining out there either.
Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
Referencing the compensation makes me think he was voted out.
He came to our town to campaign for Dave Weldon, several years ago.
JC Watts came with him. Interesting the news is now about both of them making moves...I am wondering if something is happening on a Party reorganization level?
He was never even mentioned at any Freedom Works Session this summer and fall. FW teamed with Glenn Beck this year.
Armey was very active in Tax restructure...Fair or Flat? Maybe he did not get the backing he wanted. He seems to be easily angered or is it he angers others?
Huh huh, it’s about a guy named “Dick” and was written by a chick named “Weiner.”
Editor: “Hey Weiner, you got that Dick article yet?”
...when the tea party movement started, he did come across rather presumptiously like a guy who ran out in front of an ongoing parade and immediately proclaimed himself the “big leader”...Yep that is how it was.
He was very quick to jump on the band wagon and start raking in the dough from those he attracted to his org.
FW has always been quite aggressive in trying to attract money.
The Tea Party Patriots were driven by monetary greed soon after they saw how fast the TPM was growing.
And took a lot of manipulative actions to attract money and also to be seen as the "leader" of the Tea Party Movement.
A lot of infighting also.
Both of those groups were/are more interested in promoting themselves rather than spending more energy on pushing the Tea Party principles etc.
Nor the sharpest crayon in the tool shed ?
Yes a number of times, here is just a sample.....
Armey also suggested that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is not his ideal candidate in 2012. “There’s nobody from Alaska on my list,” he said.
Just one of many he made, said she was old news in another, just very unflattering dismissive remarks
“The top management team of FreedomWorks was taking a direction I thought was unproductive, and I thought it was time to move on with my life,” Armey tells Mother Jones. “At this point, I don’t want to get into the details. I just want to go on with my life.”
In the email, Armey indicated that he wants nothing to do with FreedomWorks anymore.
He'll receive an $8M payout...The person behind the payout is Richard J. Stephenson, a prominent fundraiser and founder and chairman of the Cancer Treatment Centers of America, a national cancer treatment network.
$8 million???
seriously??
I hope FReepers didn’t put money into that scam
$8 million payoff. That's a LOT of sick days.
They have been quite successful as they had 8 Mil sitting around to give to Armey. Har, Tea Party guy my foot, look at that golden parachute!
The wording (in the article I read) was unclear whether Freedom Works paid the $$, or this guy Stephenson did. I read somewhere else, today, that Armey signed a consulting contract with someone named Stephenson. Not sure if it’s related. Maybe it was a way to make everyone play nice. Again, not sure.
I checked it out and it is Stephenson who will be paying Armey.
He’s on the board.
$400,000 a year installments.
All of that in the contract entered into at the end of Sept.
wow... from the end of Sept to the election... for $8 million...
and this made sense to someone?
lolz
Send in your dollars and quarters.... “to defeat Obama?”... no we gotta pay our advisor
Well the money comes from a guy that owns cancer treatment centers who is on the board of FW.
He’s a friend of Armey.
He is going to pay the 8 mil.
This is probably the death knell for Freedom Works, who imo was in it for the money and glory (as supposed tea party “leaders.”)
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