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The Tea Party came into this world the same way a baby does; screaming and crying. Mainly they screamed and cried about the deficit, taxes and fiscal responsibility. It turns out, when it comes to spending, theyre still babes in the woods. Their latest IRS filing shows the Tea Party Patriots took in more than $12 million in fundraising, so how did only $3.4 million of that go to their actual mission programs?
Mother Jones obtained the Tea Party Patriots full IRS filing, and its an abject lesson in how fools and their money part. The most damning evidence is found on page 20, shown here:
Here you find MDS Communications, a telemarketing firm that took in on behalf of the TPP $680,581.00 , a tidy sum. Sadly for the cause, they charged $665,581 for their services, leaving the fiscally hawkish TPP, $15k. Then theres the $1.4 million that was given to the Richard Norman Company, for fundraising counsel, a figure made more remarkable when you learn Richard Norman, is now TPPs national finance chair.
Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/05/22/patriots/
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)The ones writing the checks, stupid.
So both.
Blue Owl
(50,271 posts)n/t
I was willing to just give them the benefit of doubt and just call them stupid rather then corrupt--- but I forgot they started life as Republicans---makin' deals and screwin' the world via loopholes and the like.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)probably both. Now, it is confirmed as both.
Amster Dan
(89 posts)But just dumb enough to throw their money at it.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)JHB
(37,157 posts)tanyev
(42,520 posts)who specialize in using long-shot Republican candidates as serious cash cows.
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