Tea Party Mutiny..

Tea partiers attack own convention...


http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32626.html

Tennessee tea party activists who said they couldn’t afford the $550 tickets to the National Tea Party Convention staged a guerilla news conference just outside of the event to challenge its representation of the movement.

“There are a lot of citizens in the state of Tennessee today who could not afford to be here… particularly in this economy,” said Antonio Hinton, a 37-year old tea party activist from Knoxville. “They’re just as patriotic. They’re just as concerned. They care just as much about what’s going on as the folks that are in that room.”

The convention’s steep ticket price, combined with its top-down organizational structure and the $100,000 speaking fee its organizers paid keynote speaker Sarah Palin all fly in the face of the grassroots tea party movement, Hinton and his three cohorts asserted in a quickly put-together press conference outside the convention hall.

About 40 journalists and camera people from the heavy media contingent covering the convention gathered around the four dissidents in a hotel lobby outside the entrance to the banquet room hosting most convention activities, as curious convention-goers crammed their necks to get a look at the spectacle, after which some challenged assertions made by the four.

Tomasik credited the convention organizers with landing Palin, who he said is “probably not going to show up to talk to us because we couldn’t afford her.”

“We don’t need Sarah Palin to be the face of our movement,” he said. “We don’t need Newt Gingrich or any of these other people, because these people are humans and they can fail. Our values will never fail us as long as we adhere to them.”

Tell Murdock FUX Network is Grassroots and he'll probably sue you

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They get what they deserve.

Her price kept going up.

If they can't afford $550 then they are lazy drug using Marxists that need to learn english and get out of our country.

What's the problem you have with your organizers making a big fat profit off you? Isn't that what you love about capitalism?

Isn't profit a good thing? You seem to be so damn concerned about the insurance companies losing a few bucks due to health care reform. Why begrudge the orgainizers of this convention (:rofl:) a few measly bucks?

Everybody should pay their own way in life, they keep telling us.

Anything else is SOSHALIZM.

not to mention old school mentality of top down organizing

:rofl:

Now we're going to hear from the M$M how the Teabaggers were outside rioting to hear Sarah Pee because they couldn't afford the entrance fee.

I bet if the message was repeated that she was making $2000.00 per minute of speech time, it might piss off quite a few of the attendees... and those unable to attend.

:rofl:

love those republican con/men/women.

Wow, 604 people? That's nearly half the country isn't it? No wonder there is wall to wall coverage.