Pretty much the entire point of the “tea party movement” was that it was a genuine and uncoordinated reaction. Not a party mechanism, not a corporate entity. An amorphous thing that emerged spontaneously. I am very suspicious of those who went out and registered organizations and set up 501(c)3’s to tap into this uprising - how does anyone know that these organizations represent this diverse and diffused “movement”? A. They don’t. They are just looking to advance their own agendas, under the cloak afforded by the nominal association with “the tea Party”. Don’t fall for it.
You got that right, Wally.
"I am very suspicious of those who went out and registered organizations and set up 501(c)3’s to tap into this uprising - how does anyone know that these organizations represent this diverse and diffused “movement”? A. They don’t."As well you should be.
There are a lot of unscrupulous "tea party" orgs etc out there who are trying to "represent" the TPM, look at their records.
Tea Party Express in no way propagates the idea that they represent the TPM, only that they are a part of it.
As far a how does anyone know and your answer that they don't?
Many of "they" do, you can know that too with a little research
The "Tea Party Express" is a group of professional conservative-Republican campaigners from California. They come from various backgrounds, but some of them have Reagan Administration experience and/or GWB Administration experience. They are not RNC RiNO types, but instead are associated with the Gray Davis recall of a few years ago for the most part. One or two of the executive group has experience helping with the Prop 8 campaign as well.
These people should be associated with the loose "conservative wing" of the California GOP, the people who challenged Gray Davis and wanted Davis's job for Congressman Tom McClintock, before they were euchred by the RiNO's who went out and recruited Ahnuld once it became apparent that Davis could very well be recalled.
I worked with Tea Party people in Texas myself as a poll-watcher, and the group I affiliated with were not the Tea Party Express.
It looks like the Tea Party Express may be making a bid for leadership of the movement as a whole (good luck with that --- famous aphorism about conservatives and herding cats applies here), but at least the Express people are in fact genuine conservatives, if tainted with the name of "political professionalism".