Eric Odom

20 Nevada Tea Party Groups Release Joint Statement Against “Tea Party Candidate”

Yesterday we posted a poll that asked Tea Party Activists whether or not they think Scott Ashjian, the third party “Tea Party” candidate for U.S. Senate should withdraw from the race. With more than 900 votes in, 95% say yes. This morning, 20 grassroots tea party groups across the state of Nevada released a joint statement rebuking the candidacy of Scott Ashjian and the attempt to hijack the...

Eric Odom

Ohio Secretary of State vs Ohio Tea Party

We generally don’t repost letters because we get literally hundreds of them every week. But this particular email, if true, should have us all up in arms and contacting the Ohio Secretary of State’s office. My fellow conservative leaders, I write to you today to ask you and your membership to join me and my members in defending our movement against the most serious assault on our rights that we...

Eric Odom

Is the Nevada “Tea Party” Candidate a fraud?

The Las Vegas Sun recently published a story about Scott Ashjian, the new “Tea Party” candidate in Nevada who apparently believes that if you say you’re the tea party candidate, you should be considered such. But as some in Nevada are pointing out, just because you say you are a tea party candidate doesn’t actually make it so. For those of you unaware, a third party called the Tea...

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The Tea Party Movement Has Momentum

If the Tea Party movement is irrelevant, ineffective and out-of-touch – why does the left even bother with it? If the Tea Party movement is a small group of angry Republicans - why it is being treated as a huge threat to the liberal agenda and ideology? If the Tea Party movement is as insignificant as many liberals would like to believe – why spend the time to participate in smear campaigns...

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Tea Party Factors Playing into the Texas Primary

Rick Perry won the Republican nomination to continue as governor of Texas by a wide margin. To the surprise of many people, he avoided a runoff with Kay Bailey Hutchinson in the process. The final vote tally is Rick Perry with 757,461 - 51.09%, Kay Bailey Hutchinson 449,632 - 30.33% and Debra Medina 275,604 18.59%. Perry ran an anti-Washington campaign labeling Hutchinson as a Washington insider ...