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From: DCattoni@aol.com
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.org

If 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

They link themselves with this group too, the Contract from America.

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!

Evidence mounts TheTeaParty.net is a FAKE
April 5 | Posted by LadyImpactOhio
Every 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: