which have operated on the fringes of society and two, the Republican Party?
Extreme Racist elements
Most of the racist elements joined the Tea party in opposition to having an African American as president. Therefore, most of their criticism have centered on his race rather than his politics. Most of these elements had been operating on the fringes of American society because many Americans do not support using one’s race as political disagreement. Because the Tea Party is based in the old South where many of these racist organizations exist, the Tea Party offered them a platform to air there racist views.
The Republican Party vs. The Tea Party
The Koch Brothers and other supporters of the Republican Party saw the opportunity to use the Tea Party to re-take control of the house in 2012. They took control of most of the local organizations by spending millions of dollars to buy off the leaders. Once the take over was complete, they use their influence to put up local candidates who agreed with their principles of limited government and no new taxes. By forcing much of their criticism against the democratic party, they set up a conundrum in the Tea party and the Republican Party.
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Tea Party Movement
Tea Party Patriots is an American political organization that promotes "fiscally responsible" activism as part of the Tea Party movement. Its mission is "to attract, educate, organize, and mobilize our fellow citizens to secure public policy consistent with our three core values of Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government and Free."[1] The group is a strong opponent of excess government spending and debt.[2]
In 2010, the group reportedly included over 2,200 local chapters, as well as an online community of 115,311 members (estimated at 63% male, 31% female, 6% unspecified)
The organization was founded by Jenny Beth Martin, Mark Meckler, and Amy Kremer in March 2009. Tea Party Patriots was a co-sponsor of the 9/12 March on Washington, but refused to participate in the National Tea Party Convention.[7] Tea Party Patriots is most notable for organizing citizen opposition at the healthcare town hall meetings of 2009, as well as various other anti-government run health care protests.
In September 2010 the group announced it had received a $1,000,000 donation from an anonymous donor. The money was distributed to its affiliated groups and must be spent by Election Day, though it could not be used to directly support any candidate.
In 2012, the group along with the Southern Republican Leadership Conference organized a presidential debate that aired on CNN.
Along with various other conservative and libertarian organizations the Tea Party Patriots have developed a Contract from America that echoes the Republican Contract with America of 1994 stating some of the core principles and several specific goals shared by organizations and individuals involved with the tea parties. In July, 2012, the group's Atlanta chapter partnered with the Sierra Club and the NAACP to defeat a proposed transit tax in Atlanta. The referendum was defeated by a margin of 63 percent.
In February of 2009 following a series of massive expansions of the United States government by congress under both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Jenny Beth Martin and several other concerned citizens formed the beginnings of the modern Tea Party movement. Making use of her already established social and blogging network, as well as an email list of contacts that she had built over years of political volunteer work, she contributed to the nascent Tea Party movement by reaching out to and mobilizing thousands of like-minded citizens.
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