Revealed: JoinTheTeaParty.us took $469,000 in donations, spent none of it on candidates

By Stephen C. Webster
Friday, October 29, 2010 12:11 EST
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Report: Arizona-based website took nearly $500,000 in donations but didn’t turn out support for tea party or candidates

A website run out of Arizona, ostensibly to support the so-called tea party movement, is under scrutiny after a local news organization dug into their finances and ownership, only to find what some may characterize as a remarkable scam.

According to Federal Election Commission (FEC) disclosure forms, JoinTheTeaParty.us took in approximately $469,000 in donations this year and spent roughly half its budget on marketing, with the rest going to distinctly non-political avenues.

In fact, according to CBS 5 in Phoenix, there’s no evidence the group spent so much as a dime to promote tea party candidates or related events.

FEC forms pulled by CBS affiliate show the group spent nearly $200,000 on search engine optimization and Google sponsorship, along with Facebook ads promoting their website. Submitting a Google search for “tea party” returned with the site atop the list of results.

They even advertised the site on Craigslist, with an impassioned appeal to “patriots” who may be sympathetic to conservative causes. Ironically enough, the ad states numerous times that this group in particular is a “marketing campaign” with a fundraising goal of $500,000 per week.

The domain is owned by Todd Cefaratti, an Arizona businessman with a background in data collection. His other business specializes in mining contact information and reselling the leads to clients in the reverse mortgage industry.

“Thousands” of donors have given their personal contact information and credit card numbers to the tea party site, according to CBS.

In spite of the obvious political implications of calling a group part of the tea party, which is not an official organization or political party, Cefaratti’s website is run by “Stop This Insanity, Inc.,” a 501(c)4 organization — meaning, they are not a solely political organization and they’re exempt from federal income taxes.

Unlike 501(c)3 groups, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) permits these organizations to actively participate in politics so long as it is not the group’s primary function. That appears to be the case with this group.

In keeping with the very letter of the tax code, the site stipulates that it is “a non-partisan, non-profit social welfare organization dedicated to furthering the common good and general welfare of the people of the United States.”

Confronted by a reporter with the Phoenix CBS affiliate, Cefaratti refused to answer questions, driving away in a black SUV with a custom license plate that read, “TPARTY1″.

The CBS investigation, which credited an unnamed east coast activist who hit the telephones with concerns about the group, appears to owe its origins to the conservative political forum Free Republic.

Click here to read the CBS report.

Stephen C. Webster
Stephen C. Webster
Stephen C. Webster is the senior editor of Raw Story, and is based out of Austin, Texas. He previously worked as the associate editor of The Lone Star Iconoclast in Crawford, Texas, where he covered state politics and the peace movement’s resurgence at the start of the Iraq war. Webster has also contributed to publications such as True/Slant, Austin Monthly, The Dallas Business Journal, The Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Weekly, The News Connection and others. Follow him on Twitter at @StephenCWebster.
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  • http://twitter.com/Kaibutsu Kaibutsu

    This is my surprised face. -_-
    [Not very] Amazing how a ‘party’ with no official head could have people taking advantage of the system.

  • Anonymous

    teabaggers are so gullible…

  • Anonymous

    Stupidy attracks crooks like sh*^ does flies!

  • Anonymous

    LOL, just another typical day in politics. Its the American way!

    http://www.mask-your-ip.it.tc

  • Anonymous

    Guess this is the grass roots in the field of no regulation, free market capitalism. It’s probably tied to the Chamber.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KSZZWBOXVCTGZT5GGAJLWNK2P4 somebody

    hah-hah!

  • Anonymous

    From reading the article, the group has not actually broken any laws. Reflecting on how the landscape has changed since Citizen’s United this is not at all surprising and we should expect many more groups structured in exactly this way. This is exactly how I would legally circumvent having to reveal campaign funding.

    Here’s your once-on-a-lifetime opportunity! Open up an org structured like this, give yourself a nice comfy salary and funnel the money wherever requested; no paper trail required, very little of that cumbersome and expensive accounting, and no taxes apart from income tax but you can work with that. America is still truly the land of opportunity, for some.

  • Anonymous

    Well, ODonnell spent public funds to pay her rent, so it seems its all in the Tparty ideology.
    HAHAHA!!!!

  • Anonymous
  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gregory-Martin/100000564476826 Gregory Martin

    It’s hard not to feel a little sympathy with people dumb enough to donate to sites like that.

  • Anonymous

    The Teat Party.
    Because lying to people to get donations you spend on yourself is TOTALLY different than collecting welfare checks.

  • Anonymous

    “… there’s no evidence the group spent so much as a dime to promote tea party candidates or related events …”

    now wait a minute … o’dummo needs rent money … spalin needs a new leather jacket and her toad needs a new snowmobile … angle needs brains … paul needs a heart (or maybe that heart should go to ‘the dick’) …

  • Anonymous

    Todd Cefaratti data miner, whose other business it appears is to reverse mortgage the elderly should be a candidate for “Worst Person of the Year”.

    Tea Party is and always has been about, common grifters and “rubes”.

  • Anonymous

    HAHA The imbeciles that support this sort of trash DESERVE getting ripped off

  • samhoustonTX

    This situation could have been much worse — the money could have actually gone to T-party candidates.

  • Anonymous

    10 to 1 Todd Cefaratti is jewish

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    Indeed.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    10 to 1 your IQ is lower than your shoe size.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dorothy-Banks/100001470098554 Dorothy Banks

    Tea bag supporters you have been jammed…I mean scammed. No good deed comes to those whose deeds are no good.

    Brothers, sisters, fellow supporters…do you have $10 to spare? My tea cup is empty. God blesses each and all donations. Amen. Hallelujah.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gregory-Martin/100000564476826 Gregory Martin

    That pretty much defines the capitalist ideal, doesn’t it?

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    Oh, they have a head. It’s just so far up their ass you can’t see it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3PKCFUW73OVXZQA3KG6Q3UOU3I Terry B

    Hell, no wonder tea baggers get scammed. They don’t check their facts so why would we think that they would pragmatic in whom they give their money too. ” A sucker is born everyday” – P.T. Barnum.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3PKCFUW73OVXZQA3KG6Q3UOU3I Terry B

    Love it, you hit the nail on the head!!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3PKCFUW73OVXZQA3KG6Q3UOU3I Terry B

    Amen and pass the potatoes!

  • Anonymous

    I can’t find it in myself to feel any sympathy for Tealiban members. I feel sympathy for people who will be harmed by people dumb enough to proclaim themselves to be Tealiban members.

    I have never witnessed a more in-your-face, my-way-or-the-highway group of people who appear to be gleeful about harming our political system and destroying civilized discourse. I feel many things about such people, but sympathy is not among them.

    A fool and his money are soon parted. In this case, all I can say is, “It serves them right!”

  • Anonymous

    They’re robbing their donors just as they plan to rob the rest of us. All cancervatives are criminals and belong in prison.

  • Anonymous

    149 with “abstract reasoning skills which are far above average” is the quote.

    Now, A-hole, 10 to 1 the tea party ripoff artist who also does “data mining” and , get this, “reverse mortgages”, is jewish.

  • piltdown

    LOL, couldn’t have found a more gullible group of people to rip off.

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  • piltdown

    Yup. They want to completely gut any regulations so they can continue to scam people with no repercussions.

  • piltdown

    You sure hate the Jews, don’t you?

  • http://twitter.com/shivabeach Shiva

    boy you are right, they couldn’t find a more gullible or uneducated group of people. Just think if they had put up a picture of a black man being hanged, or take would probably be in the millions

  • Anonymous

    internet IQ tests don’t count. Also, real high-IQ people don’t have the need to test themselves. But, nice junior-high level insult, it contrasts nicely with your supposed score.

  • Anonymous

    Only fools contribute to the Tea Party. Face it, its a scam through and through. P T Barnum’s methodology is being used with the internet groupies.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3WYAWTN4LJ2TAZGFCL3U4H6AWM TheGuru

    Huh, I guess they can’t even trust private organizations to help them. Wait, now they’ll go to the federal government (the U.S. Attorney) to prosecute these evildoers for Wire Fraud.

    Guess even ole Ronnie Raygun was wrong. The Federal Government can help some people.

  • Anonymous

    Dude, that sounds like teabagger talk. Try to make that statement a little more responsibly.

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  • Anonymous

    10 to 1, Cefaratti’s religion is irrelevant here. Why do you feel the need to speculate?

  • Anonymous

    I’m surprised that the GOP has not put that idea forth as a way to cut the unemployment rate!

  • http://twitter.com/JPJABBER JUDI POWELL

    My new website donationsbyasucker.com will be accepting on-line donations (no matter how small, bless your hearts.) in one…two………three…………..

  • Anonymous

    Ever since I figured out there was a was a war being waged against me and mine, people have been making the same mistake you are right now.

  • Anonymous

    The test was required by a company. Maybe required isnt the right word, but I took it and that was that.

    Ill say it one more time – just so the light will shine brightly – “Ten to One the guy is jewish.”

  • Anonymous

    because there are larger patterns and truths worth highlighting in an otherwise typical story about yet another hijacked and fake political phenomenon, like the tea party.

    Always look at who, never stop with the label, group, organization.
    Im done now.
    You guys can go back to believing in the two puppets now.
    Time to go eat.

  • Anonymous

    Why is everyone assuming that the tea bagger supporters are getting scammed? This is *exactly* what it would look like if you wanted to take advantage of the new campaign finance ruling.

    For everyone calling the TB’s stupid, I think they’ve pulled one over on YOU.

    Here’s how it works:
    The front organization that doesn’t have to report every little detail receives donations with instructions on where to spend the money. They spend it as ordered along with a little side note that says, “oh, by the way this donation came from The Really Big Widget Corporation, as promised.”. And it’s now perfectly legal to do it that way. Did you think corporations would remain as stupid as Target forever?

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/5ADH43ZCS3NITAIJKNHHOXH5SY C H

    Since most of the tea party advocates want to get rid of most of the government, then they should not expect some arm of that same government to help them now. Bite the bullet people and as Sharron Angle says, “man up.” Oh, I get it. The government is bad for everyone else who may need it. But not for the tea party member that gets swindled. What is that old saying? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HZQIVGMGFYD7PAX6YYHSHX64IU James R

    Typical Repub outfit. Rip off their own!

  • http://thebrainpolice.blogspot.com microdot

    But what is surprising about this? The entire premise of the Tea Baggers is about pulling the wool over their own eyes. Why should we find it odd that they would pull the wool over each others eyes as well….

  • jimbo92107

    The only surprising thing is that more of these “tea party” sites aren’t scams that keep all the money for themselves.

    Or maybe they are. Hmm….

  • Anonymous

    This is funny as shit!

  • Carl Elderton

    “$200,000 on search engine optimization” – that would be hiding the truth on Google. Bush was right, by accident. The terrorists are coming for our Googles!

  • Carl Elderton

    Hasn’t happened yet. Don’t hold your breath.

  • Anonymous

    Spent it on ammo, reloaders, k-rations, dog food, white sheets, bomb shelters, chewing tobacco, Chicklets for tooth-replacement, parts for pick-ups, NASCAR tickets, banjo strings and crack/meth for their wife/cousins.

  • Anonymous

    Fool me once

    Suckered Twice

    Join the Tea Party and then give them money

    Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha

  • Anonymous

    HaHaHa

    Well … these asshats believe in survival of the fittest right? with no regulations, safeguards or protections correct?

    In that case, they should not whine to the big bad gov. to get their money back.

    ppl have to take self responsibility right? lol

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    You have a 149 IQ and you can’t figure out that Jewish is capitalized? Uh huh… Sure.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    I think you are confusing an IQ test with a security guard test.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    Yeah, we Jews just can’t stand Christians named Ralphie. Better lock those 14 dead bolts tonight. Our golems are prowling suburbia tonight looking for Christian babies to sacrifice to the Devil. And don’t forget our bankers who own your mortgage. We are just looking for an excuse to foreclose on your pathetic little tract house.

    Are these idiots really the best the U.S. educational system can produce?

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    Go eat some pigs. You’ve already violated most of the other commandments, including the on about porking your neighbor’s wife.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    If he really believed this crap, he wouldn’t be running his mouth for fear of the International Jewish Conspiracy cutting off his weenie. You do realize us Jews have a special kosher tool for cutting off Christian weenies?

  • Anonymous

    So they made some money on the issues. You got a problem with capitalism in the USA?
    (HELL yeah.)

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    Same folks who bought into the vacation hotel scam run by Jim Bakker. They never learn.

  • Anonymous

    To radical for me.

  • http://www.worldspinner.us/tax-day-tea-parties World Spinner

    Revealed: JoinTheTeaParty.us took $469000 in donations, spent none ……

    Here at World Spinner we are debating the same thing……

  • Anonymous

    Freepers, conservative and criminal? Those things never go together

  • Anonymous

    Liberals only give money to shysters with New Agey bullshit, they never believe the promises these asholes make

  • Anonymous

    I’m glad to see these people getting ripped off by some of their own. I can’t wait to see what happens when these dummies finally wake up one morning and realize that they were had by the same corporate interests that they thought they were voting against. I wonder if they will resort to those “second amendment remedies” that Sharron Angle has touted to solve that problem too.

  • Anonymous

    No.
    Its like this. I never had a problem with the way things are. I’m a big boy and my life was just fine. The problem I have is that you are never “Americans first”. And that is the root of the problems befalling this nation – from the budding police state, to the financial mess, and all the war in between. Add to that the obvious complicity in the 911 con and the obfuscation afterwards both in the govt (populated by you at the key points) and the media (its yours) – and you’ve got yourself a problem now.

    You should reign in your own – thats what we would do. But you dont. You never do. 2000 years of evictions and pogroms attest to that. You all should wise up and start doing the right thing by demanding your supermen do the right thing.

    We look like the audience at any school play, and we are well on our way to realization.
    Get a clue.

  • Anonymous

    Larger patterns & truths like the Global Jewish Conspiracy to establish a New World Order? Go back to reading your Protocols of Zion buddy.

  • Anonymous

    That is money that won’t taint the airways.

  • http://twitter.com/Rteefact Rteefact

    Hah Republicans scammed by Teabaggers who covered their eyes. I’d say its freemarket hucksters going after the grifters.

  • http://infinitudetortoises.pip.verisignlabs.com/ An Infinitude of Tortoises

    Who could possibly have anticipated something like this!

  • Anonymous

    It’s a sign that they have no idea what economics is all about … why would you vote for someone to run your state, or represent you in Congress, who spends 200,000,000 of their OWN money just to get a job paying less than 200,000.00. The whole concept is screwed up and there is no way, GOP or DEM, conservative or liberal, that we can change this … instead we are pitted against each other in an un-ending ride to repeat this over and over again. We are doomed until the process changes. We need change, but the change we need is not different candidates but a change to the system.

  • Anonymous

    zzzz, more Jew hating … move along, nothing to see here.

  • Anonymous

    who has waged a war against you Ralphie, is this more of the battle against Christianity bullshit?

  • NadePaulKuciGravMcKi

    Neocon Heaven

    Freepers

  • Zenzizenzizenzic

    There is a sucker born every minute.

  • Anonymous

    Tea Bagger Fools and their money are soon parted. These Conservative nuts are such Morons wasting their money so the rich can get richer that most GOP, TB earn less than $50,000 a year. All the Republicans have going for them are wedge issues that they never fix, because if they did the wouldn’t have anything to campaign on.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bob-Zentrails/100001475536421 Bob Zentrails

    I suspect there will be many discoveries like this for the next two years, even if they gain the House and they won’t be good for the GOP.

    Time for some ACORN revenge, IMO.

  • Anonymous

    There were pegs and holes -and the others being tested were all hairy, wore diapers and were rewarded with bananas.

  • Anonymous

    And those being scammed are their strongest supporters AND do all the work for free -it’s the Perfect Crime.

  • Anonymous

    Same Dopes who fell for the whole “Invade Iraq” thing too -they just keep making bad choices and putting all their faith in bad charactors.

    The crazy thing is that they keep blaming the Left for their problems, when it’s been the Right all along.

  • http://www.facebook.com/donna.m.martin2 Donna Marie Martin

    I have a feeling this is going to be the start of “many” so called tea party affairs …. I believe they are strongly against regulation…I wonder why?

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  • Anonymous

    While the story is that the Teaparty is a “Grassroots” organization, it turns out that the machine behind it all is a Lawnmower.

  • Anonymous

    Lets see. What did they do with the money….

    Bought tea.
    Paid off some condos.
    Bought some porn.
    Bought a Winnebago or two
    Went to Mississippi for a vacation.
    Bought some more tea.
    Bought some more porno
    and spend the rest one misspelled signs.

  • Anonymous

    mmmmmmmmmm potatoes………………

  • http://twitter.com/miscellany101 miscellany101

    Is there anyone who still believes the Tea Party members are about fiscal responsibility and less government? It’s really about personal aggrandizement and power and an intense hatred for people different than themselves. Some would say those are good old American values, I call that evil.

  • http://the-reviewer.com TheReviewer

    How’s that Free Market workin’ out for yay? *Wink

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  • Anonymous

    Who needs the protocols when you can just look at the current policies and their genisis?

    You people pose as so learned, but all you ever retort with are current cultural platitudes and catch phrases. Wind. Have you ever looked to see if you can back up your reactionary view with facts? I did. Found out I was wrong about most everything. I ended up here, where you people counter with quips and labels.

    Guess what. You’re just like the righties who do the exact same thing on their pet sites.

  • http://publishr.blogspot.com secular1

    They don’t arrest televangelist why would they investigate a variation on a theme?

  • Anonymous

    ” You do realize us Jews have a special kosher tool for cutting off Christian weenies?”

    When did you take the time out from coming up with 5 million financial scams to cut off our wallets?

    Sure you want to debate this issue? Sure you want to frame it as ralphie being “hater” for stating an obvious fact?

    This isn’t The Daily Show, you won’t make any points whining “anti-semitism” here in the face of credible criticism: get used to it, you are not “special.” Capice?

    That said, this Ceferratti’s religion isn’t important, it is his criminality. Sounded Italian to me: wasn’t going to go out an blow up any pizza joints because of it, nor if he was Jewish, wouldn’t go stomp a bagel.

    And ralphie is correct. Too many of the connecting dots of the financial shitstorm have a Jewish name.

    Now go cry: “waaah, waah, so unfair….” but remember: I read it right here at Raw Story about Israel’s MEGAPHONE LEGIONS YOU BITCHES.

  • Anonymous

    How my gosh: 4th grade humor. No wonder I avoid these comment sections.

  • Anonymous

    How about we just read about Nuttyyahoo and his whining to set the Jewish Traitor Jonathon Pollard free, so he can go see the statue Israel erected for his betraying his own country to give them nuclear arms.

    Up. Yours.

  • Anonymous

    Is a non-responsive, ignore the issue retort indicative of the lack of any evidence to the contrary, Monkie Boi?

    Obvious and plain to see right through.

  • Anonymous

    And I think you desperately want to change to subject, and attack the person and not his issue.

    Try taking on farang.

  • Anonymous

    Dorothy, you are brilliant!

  • Anonymous

    “You sure hate the Jews, don’t you? ”

    No no no, right after the kindly Jews of Israel attacked a Humanitarian relief ship, and shot point blank an unarmed American 5 times in the head?

    Every night since then I go to bed wishing to had a mutilated dick too. A mutilated as my morals and ethics, by not only supporting genocide of a people closely DNA related to me, but celebrating it.

    Have a nice day!!

  • Anonymous

    “And don’t forget our bankers who own your mortgage. We are just looking for an excuse to foreclose on your pathetic little tract house.”

    Really want to go there? Really?

    “Are these idiots really the best the U.S. educational system can produce?”

    And you’re the best Israel’s MEGAPHONE BITCHES counter with?

    Weak.

  • Anonymous

    Indeed, suckers ARE born every minute: behold the latest “Big Boo”

    By EILEEN SULLIVAN and MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Eileen Sullivan And Matt [Apuzzo, Associated Press – Fri Oct 29, 7:54 pm ET

    WASHINGTON – Authorities on three continents thwarted multiple terrorist attacks aimed at the United States from Yemen on Friday, seizing two explosive packages addressed to Chicago-area synagogues and packed aboard cargo jets. The plot triggered worldwide fears that al-Qaida was launching a major new terror campaign.]

    “Oh Bernie, your firecrackers arrived.”

  • Anonymous

    continuing my snooze … still nothing to see here.

  • Anonymous

    You are full of shit. So Netanyahu is an evil bastard. What does that have to do with Jews? Or even all Israelis? Are you personally responsible for every evil thing our government has done? As soon as you joyfully embrace all the torture, murder, double-dealings & betrayals perpetrated by evry administration, THEN you can start slinging random remarks like that, and you’ll still be an ignorant bigot.
    Most Jews I know are appalled at the evil done by the state of Israel. Many Americans I know are appalled at the actions of the US. I am appalled at the continuation of ignorant, misguided bigotry in this age. Ick. You’re not adding anything useful to this debate. Please go away.

  • Anonymous

    Keeping track of all of the passwords to the barely legal porn sites must be challenging.

  • http://twitter.com/shivabeach Shiva

    unfortunately I don’t think the members have any idea what their leadership stands for. When they talk about giving more power to the states I don’t really think they understand what that means. Going back to the Constitution and wanting to change most of it is not very particularly impressive either. The membership stands for exactly what they are told to stand for without understanding

  • Anonymous

    Me thinks this is an organization run by Democrats to demonstrate how stupid tea partiers are. If that is the case, I hope they are staying within the laws. No one should be able to break the laws, no matter what their political affiliations.

  • Anonymous

    How do you know this isn’t some Democrat or Liberal just trying to make money off conservative stupidity?

  • Anonymous

    Because you guys vote and act like an Ant Colony due to the siege mentality (us vs them) that your leaders cultivate every few generations. The latest of which being the ‘holocaust’(tm). (the only historical event in existence where its a crime to try and substantiate it in the countries where the evidence is to be found)

    You think that hogwash is mostly for us – you have it wrong – its mostly for you, to keep your group on a war footing, to maintain a cohesive force. Simulataneously you preach the opposite to the rest of the society in which you reside, weakening their ability to resist.

    Random? Sure, if you call my reading of your own books and periodicals random. God only knows what I could dig up if I could read hebrew.

    Who would be the last ones to believe Ted Bundy was a psycho? Hmmm? Who?
    His kids.

    Get it?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Cleary/685251799 Richard Cleary

    So much for integrity.

  • Anonymous

    Just because they use the name Tea Party does not mean they represent the Tea PArty, there are scammers all over. And what better vehicle to use for a scam than the Tea Party, because it IS made of of people with integrity. Unfortunately, we are so honest we expect others to be so too, and not everyone is. And as a proud Tea Partier, I do not hate people different than myself, just people who espouse policies which I feel are to the detriment of our country. There is a difference between disagreeing over politics and driving the country over the cliff of big government and unsustainable debt.

  • Anonymous

    Hahaha just goes to prove you can’t fix stupid maybe not the Tea Party donors will start checking out heir own party before they send off thousands of dollars.

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    Oh, yes — and in ARIZONA, of all places! Just unthinkable, isn’t it?

  • http://vernonhuffman.blogspot.com/ Vernon Huffman

    Econ 101: Greed is what makes capitalism work.

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  • Anonymous

    A lot of people I know earn less than $50k a year. They are the ones who make this country work. Why so many want to vote against their own self interest is beyond me.

  • Anonymous

    We don’t know. Why would a Democrat want to pretend they were a selfish asshole?

  • Anonymous

    If the tea baggers are asking for money, it’s a scam. If they aren’t, then it is run by the Koch brothers.

  • http://eticketride.org/wpblog Walt

    No more gullible than those that actually believed in all that hope and change. Bwaaahahahaha!

  • Anonymous

    There’s a sucker born every day, as the saying goes. If a Democrat thought they could make decent money off of having a Tea Party like name, and getting the Tea Party lemmings to send them money, meanwhile preventing that same money from going to “legitimate” Tea Party resources, why wouldn’t they do it?

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