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1 posted on 08/07/2014 2:26:35 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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How the Tea Party became as corrupt as the Beltway it loathes
This Week ^ | 8-7-14 | Michael Brendan Dougherty

Posted on ‎8‎/‎7‎/‎2014‎ ‎5‎:‎26‎:‎34‎ ‎PM by afraidfortherepublic

This week, ProPublica released a report on the financial (and moral) corruption of a Tea Party group operating under....

 

 

 

THE is a hell of a lot different than A!

59 posted on 08/08/2014 6:16:15 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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>> grassroots corruption.

Yeah, that makes sense...

Dougherty, oops... “Michael Brendan Dougherty”, is an idiot with an agenda.


62 posted on 08/08/2014 7:14:28 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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The Tea Party is essentially a landlord class; its fiefdom is the truly felt convictions of others.

I have no idea what the hell this means except that the author felt the need to throw a few Marxist terms in there to keep the faith. I mean, there is a far better representation of landlords and fiefs in the modern labor union, or in inner-city Democrat politics.

63 posted on 08/08/2014 7:39:12 AM PDT by denydenydeny ("World History is not full of good governments, or of good voters either "--P.J. O'Rourke)
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Yes this is a Soros-funded rag. But I have been telling FReepers for 4 years to not give one dime to Move America Forward, Tea Party Express OR the fundrasining scam knows as TeaParty.net, which people continue to stupidly fund. They use the money to buy fancy cars and an extravagant lifestyle. Out of hundreds of thousands, only hundreds goes to candidates.

Another such fraud in immigration is called ALIPAC. In 2012 they took in $300,000 and gave only $2,000 to candidates. It is disgraceful.

66 posted on 08/08/2014 8:14:25 AM PDT by montag813
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an article written by one from the giant Liberal-Left pot of financial opportunism - pushed by government assistance and direction calling the kettle of a few Conservative hucksters black


69 posted on 08/08/2014 11:47:15 AM PDT by Wuli
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The Tea party is a “Stand Alone Complex” and isn’t some monolithic org, and it is not these subset orgs either. It is a large coalition of people bound togetehr by a basic framework of idealology.

While you have different orgs under the “Tea Party” umbrella, any one organisation DOES NOT speak for the Tea Party in General. Unlike the DNC and the RNC.


70 posted on 08/08/2014 11:57:13 AM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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Sal Russo is the liberal medias favorite tea partier the way colin powell is the liberal medias favorite republican. The man is a fake.


75 posted on 08/08/2014 1:11:20 PM PDT by lowbridge
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A Charity “Scandal”, not a TEA Party One
76 posted on 08/08/2014 1:33:31 PM PDT by lowbridge
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The left has a policy of infiltrating any and all organizations. Weather it be the GOP, The government as a whole, or the Boy scouts, The churches, or the tea party or whatever. They plan the infiltrations and they infiltrate and destroy. It is the way it works.


79 posted on 08/08/2014 7:39:01 PM PDT by Revel
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We actually need another “silent majority”. The democrats and the press didn’t know who to attack.


85 posted on 08/08/2014 11:03:31 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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Ah yeah, the left attacking the Tea they detest, because the Tea party threatens their grip on power and money.


106 posted on 08/09/2014 8:08:40 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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The writer of this piece is a hipster anti tea party Jon Huntsman admirer

And likes to hear himself write


121 posted on 08/09/2014 11:32:27 AM PDT by wardaddy (we will not take back our way of life through peaceful means.....i have 5 kids....i fear for them)
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Thank you , thank you, thank you for such a hard-hitting exposé! I had NO idea that politicians were ever involved with “grifting”. I’m just so stunned I can hardly even type this thank you comment.

Heretofore, to the best of my understanding, all politicians throughout the history of our country have always been honest and deeply concerned about the spiritual and material comfort and happiness of our citizens and concerned about little else, especially not their own wealth and re-election.

And now I find out that after all these centuries CONSERVATIVE Republicans are the TRUE culprits of evilness because they’ve apparently broken the ancient mold of historical political honestness and for the first time in history our country now might finally have politicians that are “grifters”. I tell you, I’m stunned, just stunned.


132 posted on 08/09/2014 4:01:37 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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I heard the Tea Party was dead! Oh, woe! Woe is me!


164 posted on 08/10/2014 12:39:06 PM PDT by Da Bilge Troll (Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)
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