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Should Sarah Palin Lead the Tea Party?
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Feb. 8) -- Whether Sarah Palin -- or anyone else, for that matter -- becomes the de facto leader of the Tea Party remains to be seen. But there's no doubt that she was the face of the movement this past weekend. Palin was the star attraction at the first National Tea Party Convention in Nashville. Her portrait was on the cover of the program for the event, and she was paid a reported $100,000 to give the keynote address at Saturday night's closing dinner. The ex-governor of Alaska touched on the leadership question in her speech. "I caution against allowing this movement to be defined ...
Scenes from the Tea Party: A Reporter's Notebook
By not in system - AOL News(Feb. 6) -- Joseph Farah, editor of the conservative Website WorldNetDaily, opened his speech at the Tea Party convention in Nashville with jokes and questions about President Barack Obama's U.S. citizenship. To loud approval from the crowd, Farah said his dream is that if Obama seeks re-election in 2012, he won't be able to go to any city in America without seeing signs that ask, "Where's the birth certificate?" The fact that the rest of the media has declared the issue settled is proof, he said, that it's not. ...
Sarah Palin Defends Her Participation in Tea Party Convention
By David Sessions - Politics DailyIn an op-ed piece in Wednesday's USA Today, Sarah Palin responds to the controversy about organizers of the Tea Party Convention, a gathering of conservatives in Nashville later this week -- and at which Palin will speak. Several high-profile lawmakers, including Reps. Michele Bachmann and Marsha Blackburn, have withdrawn from the event over questions about where its proceeds will go. Other Tea Party supporters were suspicious of the $550 price of tickets. But the former governor of Alaska and vice presidential candidate, who will deliver the gathering's keynote address Saturday, said she ...
Controversy Brews Ahead of Tea Party Convention
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Feb. 1) -- One of the organizers of the first National Tea Party Convention is steamed about criticism of this week's event. Judson and Sherry Phillips, creators of Tea Party Nation, have been under fire for weeks over their convention, which opens Thursday at the Opryland hotel and features Sarah Palin as the keynote speaker at its closing banquet Saturday night. Some former supporters have objected to Palin's speaking fee -- reported to be around $100,000 -- and the $549 price of a convention ticket, saying they run counter to the grassroots nature of the Tea Party movement. Sherry ...
Michele Bachmann, Marsha Blackburn Back Out of Tea Party Convention
By David Sessions - Politics DailyAmid a growing row over the planning and financial arrangements of the upcoming Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Reps. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) have backed out of the conservative event, Politico reports. The two representatives cited uncertainty about where the money from the event would be going as their reason for declining to participate. They were scheduled to join Sarah Palin as speakers. Controversy over the convention began earlier this week, when several Tea Party groups accused the event's organizer, a little-known Tennessee lawyer, of ...
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