Tea Party

Palm Beach Tea Party Sounds Alarm on Medicaid Expansion; Rep. Mark Pafford Disputes Its Take

By Fire Ant Mon., Apr. 29 2013 at 9:57 AM
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Fire Ant tries to be charitable in assessing the Tea Party. Confused, fearful people in a confusing, frightening age, they're mere pawns in the games of the rich and powerful. But when organized stupidity denies medical care to people in need, stupidity must be called to account.

Take the Palm Beach County Tea Party (please). "Critical Action on Medicaid Needed!" was the subject of a recent email from their president, Mike "Yours in Liberty" Riordan. Brimming with ideological posturing and typographical errors, it explained that two proposals were all that remained of the Legislature's debates on how to respond to the federal Affordable Health Care Act, AKA. Obamacare. "The dust has settled," Riordan wrote, and now it's either a plan offered by State Sen. Joe Negron or "[Florida House Speaker] Will Weatherford's plan."

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South Florida Tea Party Leader Reportedly in on Donald Trump's Possible Presidential Run

By Matthew Hendley Fri., Dec. 30 2011 at 4:04 PM
Categories: Election, Politicks and Leeches, Tea Party
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​Donald Trump is still threatening to run for president as a third-party candidate, and he appears to be getting help setting it up from the founder of the South Florida Tea Party.

Everett Wilkinson, who was acting as a promoter for Trump's miserable failure at hosting a debate among the GOP presidential candidate, is reportedly looking for state chairmen for Trump's campaign.

It still doesn't make Trump's presidential run official, but he needs to have campaign chairmen set up just in case.

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South Florida Tea Party Leader Says Donald Trump Is His "First Choice" to Moderate Debate

By Matthew Hendley Thu., Dec. 8 2011 at 4:10 PM
Categories: Tea Party
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​The GOP debate sponsored by the West Palm Beach-based Newsmax and moderated by Donald Trump is having some difficulties.

It has two confirmed attendees -- former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Sen. Rick Santorum -- while four have declined, and Rep. Michele Bachmann hasn't responded.

Aside from the "what the hell is Newsmax?" angle and the likelihood of anything run by Donald Trump turning into a circus, there are a few (very few) people who endorse the debate -- one of them being Everett Wilkinson of the South Florida Tea Party.

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Americans for Prosperity Florida Bringing Some Interesting Individuals on "Education" Tour

By Matthew Hendley Tue., Nov. 15 2011 at 11:58 AM
Categories: Tea Party
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​Americans for Prosperity Foundation Florida, part of the Koch brothers' political-funding machine, announced yesterday that it's going to be "providing essential educational tools to Floridians in advance of the upcoming 2012 elections."

Among the "influential leaders" AFP Florida is bringing on this tour is Brandon Darby, the former FBI informant who infiltrated groups that were planning protests of the 2008 Republican National Convention.

Darby was spotted just this weekend at a Tea Party event in Orlando headlined by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, in which Darby can be seen on tape helping to physically remove some protesters who interrupted the sheriff's speech.

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Joe Arpaio Gets a Weekend in Florida Thanks to the Tea Party and Americans for Prosperity

By Matthew Hendley Tue., Nov. 8 2011 at 7:03 PM
Categories: Tea Party
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​Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio -- America's self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff" -- is getting out of Arizona this weekend to be the headliner for the "Choose Liberty 2012" event, hosted by the Eastern Orlando Tea Party and the Koch brothers-funded Americans for Prosperity.

According to the sheriff's PR crew out in the desert, he's there just to talk and raise money.

"The sheriff has been invited to speak at the Tea Party event and accepted to help raise money," MCSO spokesman Jeff Sprong tells the Pulp. "He has traveled from California to New Hampshire on weekends, and it does not interfere with his normal duties as sheriff."

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Birther Looking for Joe Arpaio Treatment From Florida Sheriff Over Obama's Birth Certificate

By Matthew Hendley Tue., Sep. 27 2011 at 7:04 AM
Categories: Really?, Tea Party
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I found it, guys. We can all go home now.
​Birther-ism apparently isn't dead, as Jerome Corsi -- head bullshitter of the Obama "fake birth certificate" movement -- has still found enough brain-dead people to believe that the president is a Muslim from Indonesia.

In Arizona, Stephen Lemons -- the Feathered Bastard of our sister paper in the desert, Phoenix New Times -- confirmed that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio assigned members of his "Cold Case Posse" to investigate the legitimacy of Obama's birth certificate, which was released by the White House in April.

Now, thanks to the Tea Party group Sarasota Patriots, Corsi will be in Southwest Florida on Wednesday to feed his conspiracy theory to his new pals, and he's reportedly meeting with another sheriff to get the same reaction as he did out of Arpaio.

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Michele Bachmann Bails on Another Florida Event

By Matthew Hendley Mon., Aug. 22 2011 at 12:57 PM
Categories: Politics, Tea Party
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​Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann has canceled her appearance at the Villages retirement community that was slated for the weekend, according to the Tea Party group that planned to host her.

The Tri-County Tea Party Florida was selling tickets at $25 a pop to see Bachmann speak at the LaHacienda Center in the Villages on Saturday, and the excuse is that she's busy.

"Please note that Michele Bachmann canceled her Tea Party appearance at the Villages, Fl., with apologies, saying the heavily scheduled caucus appointments caused a scheduling conflict," Tri-County Tea Party communications man Sid Van Landingham says.

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South Florida Tea Party Back to Fax-Bombs, Now Asking John McCain Not to "Piss" on Them

By Matthew Hendley Thu., Aug. 4 2011 at 11:06 AM
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Hey there, Tea Party -- 50 percent chance of rain!
​In its second fax-bomb attempt in a matter of weeks, the South Florida Tea Party is asking its supporters to send a prewritten fax to Sen. John McCain of Arizona, requesting that the Maverick not urinate on them.

They're apparently not too happy with McCain, who said he agreed with a Wall Street Journal editorial that called Tea Party supporters "hobbits." Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky kind of thought it was cool to be called a hobbit, but not so much for the South Florida Tea Party -- that's why it's created the not-so-eloquently named DontPissOnMeMcCain.com.

"Yesterday you insulted the tea party movement by calling us 'tea party hobbits' and suggesting that we will be the cause for the reelection of President Obama," the prewritten fax says. "I never thought I would say this, but you are actually worse than Obama and reflect everything what is wrong in DC. Stop thinking about elections and special interests -- do your job!"

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Allen West

South Florida Tea Party: One-Third of Members Want Allen West Replaced, According to Poll

By Matthew Hendley Wed., Aug. 3 2011 at 9:15 AM
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​An internal internet poll from the South Florida Tea Party currently shows that 33 percent of its members support running a new candidate against Rep. Allen West in next year's election due to his vote on the debt deal.

Of course, we should mention this is a highly unscientific polling method, although based on members' conversations of the poll, there seems to be a lot of support for a new Tea Party candidate to run against West in next year's primary election.

With 3,788 votes cast as of around 9 a.m. today, 33 percent say that "they," including West, "voted for a bad bill and need to be replaced."

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Tea Party Outdoes Rick Scott -- Unveils Prewritten Faxes to Send Wasserman Schultz

By Matthew Hendley Fri., Jul. 22 2011 at 7:59 AM
Categories: Tea Party
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This is what the future looks like.
​Remember how old-school Gov. Rick Scott was when he asked his supporters to send out prewritten letters about himself to newspapers around the state? Well, he has been outdone by the South Florida Tea Party, which is embracing the height of 1980s telecommunications technology -- the fax.

That's right, the South Florida Tea Party is asking that you fax-bomb the office of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz in light of her "cowardly attacks and insults" against Rep. Allen West.

To make things even better, the South Florida Tea Party still believes "death panels" are a real concept and blames them on her in their preprepared facsimile.

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