Mark Williams

Tea Party Express Paid Fired Spox Mark Williams $5,000 In September

Rachel Slajda and Evan McMorris-Santoro | October 25, 2010, 8:41AM

Tea Party Express spokesperson Mark Williams.

Months after the Tea Party Express -- perhaps the most well-recognized branch of the tea party movement -- claimed to have parted ways with controversial former chairman Mark Williams, records show it doled out nearly $5,000 to the conservative radio host and blogger.

Williams resigned from the Tea Party Express this summer after causing a minor civil war in the movement over a blog post aimed at the NAACP that many saw as racist. Williams had been an integral part of the Tea Party Express from the start, serving first as its chairman (he quit that job to turn his attention to shutting down Park51) and later as its national spokesperson and a fixture at stops along the group's trademark bus tours.

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