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'We Might As Well Be Able To Vote For Disney': Tea Partiers Slam Citizens United Ruling
Zachary Roth | February 3, 2010, 9:20AM
Tea party in Hartford, Connecticut in 2009
Some Tea Partiers are expressing vocal opposition to the Supreme Court's recent ruling striking down the ban on corporate political spending -- a stance that puts them at odds with the Republican Party and the broader conservative movement.
Just hours after the court ruled last month, RNC chair Michael Steele praised the decision, calling it "an important step in the direction of restoring the First Amendment rights" of corporations.
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Tea Party Dilemma: To GOP Or Not To GOP?
Zachary Roth | January 22, 2010, 9:03AM
Like thousands of other Americans, Jim Knapp got involved with the Tea Party movement in the spring of 2009. Knapp, who lives in Sacramento, California, helped form a local group that organized a well-attended event on Tax Day last April.
But around May, something unexpected happened: Locally-based Republican party strategists started coming to the group's meetings. That alarmed Knapp and many of his fellow activists, who were motivated in large part by a deep suspicion of both major parties. "I said, 'what the fuck are you doing here?'" the blunt-spoken Knapp told TPMmuckraker.
Topics: Jim Knapp, Mark Meckler, Mark Williams, Michael Steele, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Scott Brown, Tea Parties, Tea Party Express, Tea Party Nation, Tea Party Patriots
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