Posts tagged National Tea Party Convention

Palin Assails Obama at Tea Party...

By ToPhOrN on February 7, 2010
Palin Assails Obama at Tea Party Meeting

As Sarah Palin left the stage at the inaugural National Tea Party Convention here Saturday night, the crowd erupted into chants of “Run Sarah Run!” “I think you like her!” said Judson Phillips, the chief organizer of the convention, when the ovation finally stopped and... [+]

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07Feb

No Tea Party Loyalty? Sounds Great...

By ToPhOrN on February 6, 2010
No Tea Party Loyalty? Sounds Great To Me

Three former allies of the National Tea Party Convention are planning a guerilla press conference near the convention hall Saturday afternoon to highlight what they contend are the organizers’ efforts to hijack the tea party movement. The three men, Anthony Shreeve, Robert Kilmarx and Mark... [+]

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06Feb

Palin's risky bid to lead tea party

By ToPhOrN on February 5, 2010
Palin’s risky bid to lead tea party

The organizers of the National Tea Party Convention on Friday unveiled plans for a July conference and a political group that they ambitiously predict will raise $10 million to help conservative candidates around the country dedicated to the small-government ideals of the tea party movement.... [+]

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05Feb

Tea Party Nation leaders lash out

By ToPhOrN on February 1, 2010
Tea Party Nation leaders lash out

The organizers of next month’s embattled National Tea Party Convention on Saturday lashed out at everyone from former sponsors and allies to the convention’s financial backers to House Democrats to Rep. Ron Paul’s political group, suggesting all have tried to sabotage the event. As first... [+]

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01Feb

Palin to National Tea Party...

By ToPhOrN on January 29, 2010
Palin to National Tea Party Convention: You Betcha!

While some of the nation’s most conservative lawmakers have made last-minute decisions to back out of next week’s National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, the headliner is still planning to pick up her check. Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin told Fox News on Thursday evening... [+]

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29Jan

'The Tea Party Movement Is About To...

By ToPhOrN on January 12, 2010
‘The Tea Party Movement Is About To Be Hijacked’: Activists Slam Plan For Convention

In the latest sign of rancor in Tea Party circles, a convention billed as an effort to bring together conservative activists from across the country is being attacked by some leading Tea Partiers as inauthentic, too tied to the GOP, and — at $549 per... [+]

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12Jan

The Tea Party Splatters

By ToPhOrN on January 12, 2010
The Tea Party Splatters

How do you take a spontaneously erupting grassroots phenomenon fueled by rebel anti-government rage, and mold it into a coherent political movement? Not very easily, it turns out. That much is becoming clear, as 600 members of disparate groups from across the country prepare to... [+]

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