Who funds tea party activities?
The tea party's events cost a lot of money - they are made to look "grassroots" but as someone in the industry, I see a very expensive production. Tea party candidates are getting hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars for their campaigns. Although they say they are funded with $5 and $10 donations, I don't buy that.
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Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, etc. They do get a lot from people who send in small donations, but there are a lot of other people who also send in a large portion of their money because they actually think the Tea Party can get somewhere.
But maybe it is the Democrats, because the Tea Party is doing a good job of splitting up the GOP.
Organized in late 2008, "The spark came on February 19, 2009, when a CNBC journalist named Rick Santelli aired a diatribe against the bank bailout. "That," Meckler says, "was our source code."
Martin says it has raised just over $1 million in the past year, a trivial amount by the standards of national political organizers. About 75 percent of the group's funding comes from small donations, $20 or less, she says.
According to Jonathan Rauch's reporting, it does. His article on the "Starfish" nature of Tea Party organizations: http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/cs_20100...
I don't know why people would think a decentralized form of organization would be so odd...it's extremely appropriate for the Tea Party especially. And "spontaneous organization" for the Right, philosophically.
How can it possibly be grass roots. Just look at what they stand for: 1. Lower taxes on corporations and rich individuals. 2. Drill for oil on the East and West coasts 3. Eliminate the EPA 4. Give Social Security money to banks to manage for individuals 5. Deregulate industries so they can pollute more without recourse. 6. Stop medicare. 7. Do not create jobs by putting unemployed people to work doing things we need. etc... Just about none of these things are popular.
You don't but that? Didn't Obama get all those millions from 5 and 10 dollar donations? You bought that didn't you?
I have contributed to some organizations that support the Tea Party ideals.
Why do YOU care who funds it?
I'll bet you don't care who funds ACORN or that Victory structure at Ground Zero.
The ones I have been to are people standing in a park. The park was free.
Who funds Democrat activities? Blah blah blah sames as you
You wanna talk expense? Go and research what Nancy Pelosi's personal budget for "extras" is per year. Apparently, she is having some pretty fancy luncheons.
They do because they work.
Novel concept for you I suppose.
What are these 'expenses', except a little travel?
you don`t buy that
Then you do not understand real hard working Americans that care about their Country.