Tea Party Express, CNN to host debate in 2011
Mark your calendars! Tea Party Express and CNN announced that they will be holding a debate of Republican presidential candidates for Labor Day 2011. More from
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Mark your calendars! Tea Party Express and CNN announced that they will be holding a debate of Republican presidential candidates for Labor Day 2011. More from CNN:
“„Tea Party Express Chairman Amy Kremer talked to CNN about what activists hope to hear from Republican presidential candidates. “We want to hear what their ideas are – what their thoughts are – on turning this economy back around and getting us on a sound economic footing, paying down some of our deficit, getting a balanced budget, and reining in the spending,” Kremer said.
Kremer added, “We’ve proven ourselves in this last campaign, election cycle of 2010, we’re the only Tea Party group that engaged in election activity. And we got involved because we simply believed that if we’re going to affect change we’re going to do it at the ballot box. And the tea party movement has proven how powerful it is.”
The Tea Party Express was founded by a GOP consultantand is much more focused on electioneering than the Tea Party Patriots, who accuse it of being an astroturf organization.
However, the Tea Party Express wasn’t that successful in 2010. Tea Party Express did make big independent expendituresagainst Lisa Murkowski and Mike Castle and for Joe Miller and Christine O’Donnell before they upset primaries in Alaska and Delaware. But neither candidate ended up winning. The organization spent over $600,000 on Sharron Angle in Nevada.
Another tea party organization, FreedomWorks, recently held a candidate’s forumfor RNC Chair candidates, and all 42 Republicans threatened to filibuster the omnibus billbecause of the earmarks that many Republicans included themselves; this debate is one more sign of the central role of tea party groups in the GOP.
Paula M. Graham
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