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Controversial Tea Party PAC Sets Up Own Super PAC

Ryan J. Reilly | January 26, 2012, 12:30PM

It seems the people affiliated with the Our Country Deserves Better PAC (a.k.a. the Tea Party Express PAC) -- known for sending much of its money to the GOP consulting firm that created it -- wants to get on the "super PAC" bandwagon.

The newly formed Tea Party Express Presidential Campaign super PAC intends to use its funds exclusively to make independent expenditures and raise funds "in unlimited amounts from individuals, corporations, labor organizations and/ or other political committees," treasurer Kelly Lawyer wrote in a letter to the Federal Election Commission this week.

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Sal Russo

Tea Party Express PAC Keeps Funneling Money To GOP Consulting Firm

Ryan J. Reilly and Melissa Jeltsen | December 21, 2010, 8:15AM

Tea Party Express strategist Sal Russo

For the Tea Party Express, old habits die hard. TPE's PAC, Our Country Deserves Better, continued through the election cycle with its track record of raising money in support of grass-roots tea party candidates and then funneling those donations to the Republican consulting firm that founded it, recent filings show.

In a month-long period surrounding the midterm elections, a whopping 73 percent of funds raised -- totaling $599,377 -- was paid out to Russo Marsh and Associates, the Sacramento-based GOP political consulting firm that essentially founded the PAC in 2008, for miscellaneous costs including travel, consulting fees and media buys.