College of Political Knowledge
Election 2010/2012
We have been told that the Tea Party is the way of the future….that this is going to be around form now on because the people see the problem in Washington and that the TP has the answers to the problems.
First of all, what are their answers and what are the problems as they see it?
We have some that want to give people a literacy test before they can vote or the repealing of the 17th amendment so that the people cannot elect their senators or the one that wants to barter health care with chickens or the one that thinks civil rights was a bad idea or………
And then there is the people that are profiting from the “grassroots” activism….like
Eric Odom: Odom, who appears regularly on Fox News and on other venues as a spokesman for the tea party movement, is at the center of tea party profiteering.
Allen Fuller: According to Tennessee business records, Odom’s Strategic Activism, LLC business partner is Republican new media consultant Allen Fuller.
Glenn Beck: Beck, the most powerful promoter of the tea parties in the media, often rants during his regular programming that investing in gold is the only way to hedge against a supposed deep inflation in the future.
Dick Armey: As ThinkProgress has documented, Armey has a long history of organizing conservative grassroots causes in support of his corporate clients.
These are just some of people that are using the anguish of the American people as their personal bank account…..not bad if you are a sleazoid….but with these people making lots of cash off the TP there is another problem…..
Some leading tea party activists are concerned that their efforts to reshape American politics, starting with the 2010 elections, are being undermined by a shortage of cash that’s partly the result of a deep ambivalence within the movement’s grass roots over the very idea of fundraising and partly attributable to an inability to win over the wealthy donors who fund the conservative establishment.
Many tea party organizations have shied away from the heavy-handed solicitations that flood the e-mail boxes of political activists. And the handful of tea party groups that have raised substantial amounts, either by embracing aggressive fundraising or through pre-existing connections to wealthy donors, are viewed suspiciously within the movement.