Tea Party Patriots main function that helps the Tea Party Movement is the fact that in the beginning of their money making operation, they invited people to start Tea Party chapters.
You can go to their site and find literally thousands of local Tea Party organizations.
Many of them, even though still using a TPP website,have dissociated themselves with the TPP or just go on doing their tea party stuff without contact with the management of TPP.
The Tea Party Patriots were formed by Mark Meckler, Jenny Beth Martin and Amy Kremer.
When Kremer got hooked up with the Tea Party Express, Mark and Jenny had a fit.
They pushed her out of the TPP even though the board still liked Kremer and supported her.
Kremer, even though sued, just went on with her work with the TPX.
The TPP wants to be seen as the ONE Tea Party Movement group, and Meckler and Martin see themselves as THE leaders of the TPM.
They hate anyone to come to national prominence that will marginalize their org.
That's why they hate the Tea Party Express, because it is THE most prominent Tea Party group on the national scene and people support it quite well. Much to the chagrin of the TPP dictators because they want all money spent on tea party related stuff to come to them.
They have both written scathing missives lying about and putting down both Amy Kremer and the Tea Party Express.
I've posted here at FR about that in the past.
Meckler even took credit for a tea party sponsored and put on by Free Republic on Feb 27,2009.
I exposed that here at Free Republic some time ago
The Tea Party dot com org is a redundancy of the TPP imo.
They are collecting tea party chapters, and urge all to see them as THE exclusive tea party movement all the while pretending to be grass roots.
They are trying to do almost the same thing as the TPP, but is is all about making money more than anything, like the TPP.
They have a massive ad campaign, and imo spend most of their money making more money.
They have poll links all over the www and in emails.
You take the poll, and it directs you to the “opportunity” to sign up for TTP.net and send them money.
The head of the TTP.net is a marketing guy.
I imagine they have sold or rented their email list many times over.
I was getting from 2 to six emails A DAY from them at my main email account before I put them on block.
Most of them were touting clients of theirs and begging for money.
That seems to be their main purpose.
They signed up here at FR as TheTeaPartydotnet
and tried to legitimize themselves, but it didn't work.
Hard questions were ignored and they just posted how wonderful they are.
From: DCattoni@aol.comThey link themselves with this group too, the Contract from America.
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:50:52 -0400
Subject: Re: FW: Events; Poll Results; Facebook Visitors Speak Out
To: wfinley11@live.com
TeaParty.net is a slimy site that cut and pasted all the groups on Tea Party Patriots and ReTea (an old internet tea party page). Yesterday they sent an email asking questions regarding your annual income and net worth. There is no legitimate reason they should request that.Sheila from Peoria TEA Party just sent this, and it is accurate:It's a fake site that was started at the "Stop the Insanity" rally in DC to siphon money away from the real Tea Party groups. It appears as if they have been very successful! I read their page describing who they are and they even state in it that they are from "Stop this Insanity," which is probably how they plan to get out of any legal repercussions. They aren't really misrepresenting who they are! They're even posting the same articles and news events that the other Tea Parties are! They even say that they are using your donations to promote their group and get more members! It's a very clever--though devious and sick--way to weaken the real Tea Party! Please get the word out and do NOT donate money to this group!The guy behind TheTeaParty.net (also Jointheteaparty.net) is Todd Cefaratti, who is based in Mesa, AZ.
Here is the org’s general contact info (based in Mesa):
http://www.theteaparty.net/inner.asp?z=13
If you scroll down on the left on this website, it shows $470,000 in contributions to TheTeaParty.net’s parent PAC (Stop This Insanity, Inc):
http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/committees/stop-this-insanit...
Here is some creeper back-and-forth speculating about Cefaratti and the PAC: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2577608/posts
BE SURE TO educate tea party groups that there are many fake groups and sites.Another is www.teaparty.orgIf you enter www.illinoisteaparty.org it redirects to his site (along with more than 20+ states) - Dale Robertson, who calls himself "Tea Party President"Which is why our state site is www.illinoistea.org
All legitimate Tea Party Groups and PACs should dissaccoiate themselves from TheTeaParty.net post haste.
They do stuff like This to make money. A real good TPM investment!
More at the link, plus this:Evidence mounts TheTeaParty.net is a FAKE
April 5 | Posted by LadyImpactOhioEvery once in a while someone comes along who preys on the beliefs, tenets and successes of other people and entities and takes greed into their own hands to advance their own personal agenda and coffers.
Such could be the case with The Tea Party.net.
At first glance their website looks great. We have the video, we have the voter registration drive which even links to a map of the US where one can learn how to register to vote. The website is immaculate and has no errors that I could find.
But when reports started pouring in about people who had signed up for email alerts being spammed with ads to buy gold, silverware and knick knacks and other items did things become suspicious.
CBS 5 in Phoenix broke the story last November and apparently because the rest of the country has been occupied with other matters like Egypt, Libya, budget deficits, and energy woes it escaped our notice. But not any longer.
If one scrolls down to the bottom of their home page, this is the “owner” of the website:
Paid for by Stop This Insanity Inc., a 501 c4. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. www. TheTeaParty.net
Glengary Inc. registered the website and the admin is one Todd Cefaratti in Gilbert, AZ. H/t to @erickbrockway.
Check out “Stop This Insanity” donor list. Notice anything unusual? Not the typical $10, $15, $25 donations. Instead we have $500, $600, $1,000, even several $5,000 donors.
Morgan Loew has this video report on TeaParty.net on Phoenix CBS5, sorry, no imbed code. Loew tells us that no one at a pre-election rally in Phoenix had ever heard of JointheTeaParty.us. And FYI JointheTeaParty.US links to The Tea Party.net.
Loew picks apart the FEC filing of this group, which also lists all these mega-donors, and this is the astounding find:
LadyImpactOhio says:Ms. Acosta:
Mr. Cefaratti also has a blog post on this site:
http://widmer-peoria-watch.blogspot.com/2011/03/governor-walker-common-sense-wins-one.html
Asking for donations for Tea Party.net to go to:
P.O. Box 339, Vail AZ 85641-0339
I strongly advise anyone contributing to any any group, individual or entity to AVOID sending donations to a P.O. Box Number.
This is truly circumspect. This entry is dated March 10, 2011 well after your allegations the CBS5 report “is in error.”
And yes, I have screen shots of it. No Tea Party I can recall has asked for donations to go to a P.O. Box.
Please advise. Thank you.
They're bullying and other tactics are absolutely SHAMEFUL, and NOT at all what the conservative and Tea Party Movement is all about.
Don't know anything about the .us or .net group. But everyone and their mother wants a piece of the Tea Party Movement either for profit, self promotion or both.