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Tea Party Express ^ | March 25, 2010 | TEA PARTY EXPRESS Staff
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 25, 2010 CONTACT: Levi Russell at (509) 979-6615 or Levi@FrontLineStrat.com Tea Party Express Releases Ad Telling Phony Tea Party Candidate Scott Ashjian to "Get Lost!"
*Ashjian Faces New Lawsuit Alleging "False" Filing for Office *Nevada Officials Revoke Ashjian's Contractors License The Tea Party Express is calling out purported "Tea Party of Nevada" candidate, Scott Ashjian as a phony and a fraud in a new television ad campaign. The first ad in that campaign is being released today and can be seen here:
The Tea Party Express has already spent over $350,000 in its campaign to "Defeat Harry Reid" and the organization will spend what is necessary to ensure voters know about the deception of Ashjian's claim to be a member of the tea party movement. "Yes, the language in this ad is direct and tough, and that is how it should be. This guy needs to be called out," said Mark Williams, Chairman of the Tea Party Express. "Here you have a fraud who tries to pass himself off as the candidate of the tea party movement when not one single tea party activist in the state has ever seen him at a tea party rally, or even heard of him before. How dumb do he and Harry Reid think we are?" asked Williams. The Tea Party Express has conducted tea party rallies all across Nevada in cities including: Las Vegas, Henderson, Reno, Sparks, Carson City, Winnemucca, Elko, Ely, Fallon, Hawthorne and Tonopah. "Scott Ashjian had no involvement with those rallies or any other activities organized by tea party organizations across the state. Scott Ashjian is no more a part of the tea party movement than Harry Reid or Barack Obama," Williams said. Ashjian's candidacy has collapsed since he announced he was entering the race in early March. Last week he slipped from his talking points that he is not a Reid-plant, and lashed out against the very tea party movement he pretends to represent calling Nevada's tea party activists "paranoid" and "afraid" in an interview with the Las Vegas Review Journal. And yesterday's Review-Journal reported the following: The move comes as Ashjian faces political and personal legal troubles. State officials on Wednesday revoked his contractor's license after he failed to respond to the Nevada State Contractors Board and skipped an 8:30 a.m. hearing regarding defaulted business payments. Earlier this week, an independent candidate and Tea Party backer filed a lawsuit to get Ashjian's name removed from the ballot. "Voters can see this guy's purpose is to try and split the anti-Reid vote to help Harry Reid defy the will of the voters and win re-election. It's a con-job on the voters and they are seeing right through it. "It's really telling that the only person who has spoken favorably of Ashjian's candidacy is none other than dirty-trickster, Harry Reid himself. Well maybe Harry should cast a vote for Ashjian if he really thinks this fraud is so swell," Williams concluded. *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Media organizations wishing to embed a reporter on the Tea Party Express national tour (website; www.TeaPartyExpress.org), or those seeking more information about the "Tea Party Express" or to schedule an interview with a representative, should contact Levi Russell at (509) 979-6615 or via email at: Levi@FrontLineStrat.com
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