Has Grant Maloy flipped his wig?

In a local online paper, this was printed:

But that deception fails to match up to what the fake "Tea Party "party is doing. A political consultant who has made a living off deceiving voters has helped create the "Florida Tea Party". By copying the popular grassroots movement Tea Party name, he plans to fool the voters. News reports show that Democrat Congressman Alan Grayson has helped fund the fake �Tea Party�. The plan is to fool enough conservative and independent voters who dislike Grayson into voting for the Tea Party candidate instead of the Republican. The anti-incumbent vote gets split and Grayson get re-elected.

The article was written by a local politician called Grant Maloy. I believe he's a Republican so these comments are interesting. Any truth that Grayson is helping to fund the Tea Party? I can't make any sense out of Maloy's other ramblings:

http://www.seminolechronicle.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2010/07/26/4c4d8e5cce615

The Repugs have never had a long term view, so they never saw that by feeding into the crazy and creating an outside party to fight the Democrats that they might not be able to count on them for votes in the future.

Stupid cons.

spend more time researching a valid, truthful reason?