A press release from the
Florida Tea Party, sent to TPID via email:
TEA Party Chairman Fred O’Neal along with 8th Congressional District TEA Party nominee Peg Dunmire and 12th Congressional District TEA Party nominee, The Honorable Randy Wilkinson (TEA-Bartow), will host a TEA PARTY TOWN HALL SOCIAL on Friday, May 14 from 6-9 pm at the Perkins Restaurant made famous by the recent encounter between Congressman Alan Grayson and a group of opponents. Dubbed the “Battle at Perkins continues,” the event is open to the public.*
“We’re excited to have both Commissioner Wilkinson and Ms. Dunmire together to promote the conservative values of the TEA Party at this event,” stated O’Neal. The TEA Party has nominated three (3) congressional candidates in Florida. Polk County Commissioner Randy Wilkinson is also the first TEA Party public official in Florida. The TEA PARTY is an official political party in the State of Florida authorized by the Secretary of State to file TEA PARTY candidates in the November 2010 general election. The official ballot designation is TEA which will follow the name of each TEA candidate. The Florida TEA PARTY is the first in the nation to obtain new party status. Fifteen other states are in the process of establishing TEA PARTY political parties in their respective states.
*Perkins is located at: 8965 Conroy Windermere Road, Orlando, FL 32835-3127
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I find it very disingenuous when the political third party Florida Tea Party compares itself favorably to the real Tea Party Movement or leads people to believe they are one in the same. These are two completely different entities. They are about the same as a motorcycle and a fig newton. The Tea Party Movement is a pure grassroots enterprise whose name has been hijacked by the political third party Florida Tea Party. From the beginning the political Florida Tea Party has been run by, to say the least , dubious fringe political figures. Fred O'Neil was a registered Democrat when he registered the Tea Party name as a Florida third party. In the past he has supported both Obama and Grayson and he owes the IRS almost $150,000 in back taxes for which the IRS has a lien on his property. He's not the only shady character at the head of the political Florida Tea Party, seems he is nothing more than a sycophant for Doug Guetzloe. Guetzloe has a sordid past reportedly of tampering with elections and bribery. This opportunists main goal is personal profit. He and his servile cohort Nick Egoroff have both been suspended from the Republican Executive Committee. The puppet candidates this group fields can be viewed as nothing more than products of their handlers and stigmatized by a total lack of integrity that rubs off of these characters who aren't looking to work for the people they already have a job working for their personal enrichment.
It's funny that you say that Richard. Because that's exactly the same thing you said, literally, the exact same comment, word for word, in response to a post here on the Florida Tea Party from May 1st.
Whatever your gripe may be (if you are indeed a person and not just a spambot funded by corporatist Republican hijackers of the tea party movement - and, if you are not just a troll), I find it highly disingenuous that someone would simply cut and paste dubious talking points and smears in the guise of offering an informative comment.
It is an informative comment that must be stated again and again. Funny you have a lot to complain about but you don't deny anything. Leads me to believe that which I state is true.
I've never been one to doubt the mendacity of anyone in politics. Nonetheless, given your main claim (i.e. it is "very disingenuous" that a group would "compare itself favorably with the tea party movement"), I would respond that your criticism is misplaced, for there is a much more powerful and insidious organization which has done the same thing, namely, the Republican Party. Their corporatist hijacking of the tea party movement is longstanding and ongoing. If they are successful, it will be much more detrimental to this country than anything the Florida Tea Party is capable of bringing about at the current time, even if we were to grant that they have malicious intent. And the GOP is not friendly toward anyone who desires to steer the tea party movement, or anyone else for that matter, toward freedom and independence from the tyranny of the ruling two-party state and duopoly system of government. Thus, your attacks lead me to believe that you are simply a Republican mole, looking to disparage an independent tea party group in order to ensure that the people of the United States are forced to endure the continued misrule of the ruling, criminal-political class, the political organs of which are the Republican and Democratic parties.
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