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Leaders of the Tea Party movement tried to contain the public relations damage by denouncing the violent acts and distancing themselves from those behind the acts. One Tea Party website issued a response saying the Tea Party member's action of posting the address "was not requested, sanctioned or endorsed by the Lynchburg Tea Party".
The National Tea Party Federation (NTPF) was formed on April 8, 2010, by leaders of a broad coalition of national and regional Tea Party groups to help spread the movement's message and to respond to mainstream media misinformation about the Tea Party with a quick, unified response.
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.
It turns out many who rode the wave of principled libertarianism were neither.
The Tea Party movement, with its passion for fiscal conservatism that has rallied a predominantly Libertarian and Republican base around events that symbolize government spending, has its chants ...
By ISABELLE CHAPMAN Last spring, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) told the New York Times, "I think we're going to crush them everywhere," referring to the tea party that burst on the ...
[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 ...
Jenny Beth Martin (born July 2, 1970) [1] [2] is the co-founder and national coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots, and a columnist for The Washington Times. In February 2010, Time magazine named her as one of its 100 Most Influential Leaders. [3] She is the co-author of Tea Party Patriots: The Second American Revolution. [4]