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Tea Partiers distribute signs paid for by RNC | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment
The Republican National Committee is paying for signs and political buttons used by Tea Party groups despite widespread disagreement among the conservative, grassroots activists on whether the movement should work to elect candidates within the Republican party or steer clear from it.
The items, paid for by the RNC, were on full display at a Friday press conference of Tea Party activists in Washington. At the afternoon event at the Capitol Hill Suites, activists in town for the Take the Town Halls to Washington project passed out the red-white-and-blue buttons and signs emblazoned with the words Listen to Me!
Text at the bottom of the sign reads: Paid for by the Republican National Committee.
Michael Patrick Leahy, an organizer of the Take the Town Halls to Washington project that is bringing Tea Party activists to the capital to lobby Democrats on President Obamas health-care bill, admitted that the RNC did provide the signage, but said he didnt know the details of the arrangement with Republicans and couldnt explain how the signs got there. They just showed up, he said.
An RNC official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told The Daily Caller that the signs were given to the group at its request.
The buttons and signs were visible both at the press conference and inside the war room, a small area inside the hotel where the Take the Town Halls to Washington project is headquartered. A stack of signs sat on a chair in the conference room during the presser.
Leahy downplayed the significance of the items, explaining, Were taking help from anybody that has an interest in this cause.
Of course, such facts will be downplayed by those who defend the tea party movement to the death and ignore such problems like this with the movement.
why is this a problem?