Thread: TEA PARTY PATRIOTS CO-FOUNDER ENCOURAGES CONSERVATIVES TO GIVE RUBIO CHANCE

There seems to be sellouts in every crowd. I guess Russo and Ms. Martin are the Tea Party sellouts. thankfully they don't speak for the millions of Tea Party activist throughout the country. Individual leadership can be bought at a price, however, it's almost impossible to buy the millions of individual activist that pound the ground for the various Tea Party organizations. Sort of reminds me of what's going on with the labor unions. Leadership in some of those groups also support amnesty, however, the rank and file do not.

Cherokee Co. tea party chief on track for a $450,000 year

April 28, 2014

Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin, in a 2010 file photo from the Associated Press.

You might not know it, but one of the most active tea party groups in the nation has an official business address of Woodstock, Ga. It’s co-founder, Jenny Beth Martin, is a resident of Cherokee County. And so this Washington Post report is worth noting:

When the Tea Party Patriots threw its support last month behind Matt Bevin, the underdog conservative challenger trying to unseat top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell, President Jenny Beth Martin vowed the group would be “putting our money where our mouth is.”

So far, its super PAC has mustered just $56,000 worth of mailers in Kentucky on Bevin’s behalf — less than half the amount it has paid Martin in consulting fees since July.

The Post looked at other groups as well, but notes that of the $7.4 million raised by the TPP’s super PAC since 2013, only $184,505 has gone directly to candidates. More:

Martin, the super PAC’s chairwoman, oversees all its expenditures, according to [Tea Party Patriots spokesman Kevin] Broughton, meaning she sets her own $15,000 monthly fee for strategic consulting — payments that have totaled $120,000 since July.

She also draws a salary as president of the Tea Party Patriots’ nonprofit arm — getting more than $272,000 in the 2012 fiscal year, according to the group’s most recent tax filing.

Her twin salaries put her on track to make more than $450,000 this year, a dramatic change in lifestyle for the tea party activist, who had filed for bankruptcy in 2008 and then cleaned homes for a period of time to bring in extra money.

Here’s the final verdict:

Three well-known groups — the Tea Party Patriots, the Tea Party Express and the Madison Project — have spent 5 percent or less of their money directly on election-related activity during this election cycle. Two other prominent tea party groups, the Senate Conservatives Fund and FreedomWorks, have devoted about 40 percent of their money to direct candidate support such as ads and yard signs.

http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2014/04...a-450000-year/

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