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deminks

(11,006 posts)
Thu Jun 5, 2014, 02:59 PM Jun 2014

Tea Party Express caught coordinating with Chris McDaniel?

While we are waiting to hear why one of his top aides was caught in the Hinds Co. Courthouse at 2am, we get this:


http://yallpolitics.com/index.php/yp/post/38169/



An email from the Tea Party Express to supporters links a phone call from the Senate candidate to a plea for cash.



The message from Sal Russo, the chief strategist for the Tea Party Express, was breathless. "We just got off the phone with the McDaniel campaign," Russo wrote in an email to the group's supporters, "and they need our help!"

The problem: The Tea Party Express is an independent group that is promising to intervene in the Mississippi Republican runoff election between Senate candidate Chris McDaniel and Sen. Thad Cochran. As such, the group is not legally allowed to coordinate strategy with McDaniel, or his campaign.

"That would seem to be pretty clear coordination," said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group that tracks campaign spending, of the Russo email.

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more ooopsie

Do you get the impression this dude is not ready for prime time? He is ready for the Clown Car, though.

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