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Documents reveal tobacco companies funded their own ‘tea party’ first
A study published Friday in the scientific journal Tobacco Control unearthed documents that reveal the tobacco industry’s desire to fund a new “tea party” to advance their anti-regulation objectives years before the tea party, as it is known today, got its start. The same documents show that the two organizations most identified…
Conservative group Freedomworks’ internal report leaked
A report from a recent board meeting of Freedomworks — a conservative organization that recently saw its internal rifts and an attempted coup documented in the media — was leaked, with Mother Jones obtaining the documents. Freedomworks bills itself as a grassroots group but gets the majority of its funding…
Dick Armey on $8 million FreedomWorks severance: I ‘couldn’t leave with empty pockets’
Former House Majority Leader and Tea Party favorite Dick Armey defended the huge payout he received for leaving FreedomWorks in an interview this weekend with ABC News, saying he, “couldn’t leave with empty pockets.” After an acrimonious rift developed between himself and others at FreedomWorks, Armey quietly resigned from the…
Salon’s Walsh on Tea Party group’s feud: ‘A pox on all their houses’
Salon editor-at-large Joan Walsh said on Wednesday she had no preference in the fight between the leaders of the conservative group FreedomWorks — she wished ill on all of them. “A pox on all their houses,” Walsh told MSNBC host Chris Matthews and Mother Jones Washington bureau chief David Corn.…
Tea party leader Dick Armey quits Koch-linked FreedomWorks over ‘matters of principle’
Former Rep. Dick Armey (R-TX) has quit the Koch brothers-linked tea party group FreedomWorks, according to an internal communique obtained by Mother Jones magazine. From the sound of his letter, it was not a happy parting. The missive, which the former House majority leader confirmed he wrote, demands payment through Dec.…
Rule changes forced through by Romney campaign at RNC provoke grassroots backlash
Rule changes pushed through by the Romney campaign that appear designed to prevent an insurgent candidacy like that of Ron Paul from mounting any meaningful challenge to the party establishment in the future are provoking a strong grassroots reaction. One blogger at the website of the pro-Tea Party organization FreedomWorks…
Koch-founded group recycles misleading video to support union-busting in Ohio
A new ad out of FreedomWorks, the political advocacy group funded in-part by arch conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch, rankled critics Friday for recycling footage from a California protest to smear union workers in Ohio. The ad was part of a larger campaign FreedomWorks is planning, which includes a…
‘Bullied’ Geico fires actor who insulted tea partiers
That assertive voice at the end of those “Geico gecko” ads which tells you that “15 minutes can save you 15 percent or more on car insurance” may soon sound a little different. That’s because car insurer Geico has fired the ads’ voice-over actor after he left a sarcastic and…
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