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The National Tea Party Federation, formed on April 8, 2010, by several leaders in the Tea Party movement to help spread its message and to respond to critics with a quick, unified response. [226] The Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, a loose national coalition of several dozen local tea party groups. [227] Student movement
The following American politicians were affiliated with the Tea Party movement, which was generally considered to be conservative, libertarian-leaning, [1] and populist. [2] [3] [4] The Tea Party movement advocated for reducing the U.S. national debt and federal budget deficit by reducing federal government spending and taxes.
[1] [5] [13] [25] He has also worked for New Jersey governor and 9/11 Commission chairman Thomas Kean, Sen. Olympia Snowe and at the International Republican Institute. [13] Johns has been a spokesman for the Tea Party movement. [1] [6] [7] [9] [26] He has served on the leadership team of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition. [27]
[144] [145] AFP offered Tea Party groups $2 for every new AFP member their volunteers signed up at polling places in the February 2012 Florida Republican primary. [146] AFP employed methodologies developed in its efforts to thwart the recall of Wisconsin governor Scott Walker , including deploying a smartphone application called "Prosperity ...
The Tea Party Movement, founded in 2009, is an American political movement that advocates strict adherence to the United States Constitution, [1] reduced U.S. government spending and taxes, [2] [3] and reduction of the U.S. national debt and federal budget deficit.
[1] [2] Its press release announcing its formation said, "The NTPF will act as a clearinghouse and to promote the Tea Party movement's objectives of Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government and Free Markets." [2] NTPF claimed in January 2011 to have 85 member and affiliate organizations representing over a million individuals. [3]
At the Tea Party. New York: OR Press. ISBN 978-1-935928-23-2. Lepore, Jill (2010). The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-3696-3. Gladney, Henry M. No Taxation without Representation: 1768 Petition, Memorial, and Remonstrance ...
[2] [3] [4] It runs a social networking site for conservative activists [5] and is best known for organizing the 2010 National Tea Party Convention. In February 2010, Tea Party Nation was among the twelve most influential groups in the Tea Party movement, according to the National Journal. [6] In September 2010, it was one of the top five most ...