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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.
There are hundreds and hundreds of tea party groups across the country. Some have close relationships with the RNC and some don't.
Freedom of association - it's a wonderful thing.
There are hundreds and hundreds of tea party groups across the country. Some have close relationships with the RNC and some don't.
Freedom of association - it's a wonderful thing.
Yes. There is nothing wrong with a Tea Party getting help from the RNC as long as they disclose that info. It's up to the local members. There is no National Tea Party Command & Control Organization.
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Yes. There is nothing wrong with a Tea Party getting help from the RNC as long as they disclose that info. It's up to the local members. There is no National Tea Party Command & Control Organization.
Grass roots does not mean that cooperation and collaboration with existing organizations is verboten.
Do you not know the definition of grassroots?
If a Tea Party is getting help from the RNC, they are no longer a grassroots group but a arm of the RNC.
Your point Frank?
B'loney. Grassroots just means an (often local) community-based movement. The members are perfectly free decide with whom they align on various issues.
Ummm He is not running for anything for a years and is trying to get information out on his ideas for the country.
You see we elect a president to execute the policies he ran on.
Its how democracy works , Hes president and is allowed to communicate with the people.
Do you not know the definition of grassroots?
If a Tea Party is getting help from the RNC, they are no longer a grassroots group but a arm of the RNC.
B'loney. Grassroots just means an (often local) community-based movement. The members are perfectly free decide with whom they align on various issues.
