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Tea partiers rebuke Bachmann visit
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| Last Edited | COSDem Jul 28, 2010 02:05pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, July 28, 2010 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | When it comes to one of the nation’s most competitive Senate races, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and a coalition of Missouri activists are drinking two different flavors of tea.
Bachmann, a national conservative leader who announced a formation of a Tea Party Caucus in the House of Representatives last week, is trekking to St. Louis Saturday to stump for Rep. Roy Blunt’s Senate campaign. A swath of tea party groups in the state isn’t pleased.
“Tea Party participants believe the spending in Washington has to STOP. Roy Blunt voted for TARP and Cash for Clunkers,” Jedediah Smith, a tea party leader in Missouri’s Franklin County, said in a biting statement Wednesday. “For Michele Bachmann to come to Missouri and give the impression that all the Missouri Tea Parties support Roy Blunt is an abomination of everything we have been standing up for. “Most Tea Party supporters I know will be baffled by Michele Bachmann helping someone with a record like Roy Blunt before the primary vote.”
Twenty-eight tea party groups signed onto the statement criticizing Bachmann on behalf of 8,600 claimed members. Smith told POLITICO he has also contacted Bachmann’s office to share his disappointment, explaining that plans are underway to organize an event for Bachmann outside of her appearance with Blunt.
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