The full story behind the Dick Armey coup...
Complete with an armed guard for Armey!
Wingnuts in Disarray: Dick Armey Leads FreedomWorks Coup, Gets Bought Off
By karoli
Have a little Schadenfreude with your holiday eggnog. FreedomWorks just underwent a short coup, which was cured by the application of large sums of money paid for by the owner of the for-profit-and-no-we-don't-take-Medicare Cancer Centers of America.
Via the Washington Post, Act I, The Coup:
The day after Labor Day, just as campaign season was entering its final frenzy, FreedomWorks, the Washington-based tea party organization, went into free fall.
Richard K. Armey, the group’s chairman and a former House majority leader, walked into the group’s Capitol Hill offices with his wife, Susan, and an aide holstering a handgun at his waist. The aim was to seize control of the group and expel Armey’s enemies: The gun-wielding assistant escorted FreedomWorks’ top two employees off the premises, while Armey suspended several others who broke down in sobs at the news.
The coup lasted all of six days. By Sept. 10, Armey was gone — with a promise of $8 million — and the five ousted employees were back. The force behind their return was Richard J. Stephenson, a reclusive Illinois millionaire who has exerted increasing control over one of Washington’s most influential conservative grass-roots organizations.
I'm imagining how bizarre that must have been. Dick Armey riding in on his high horse, with deputies at his side, yanking mutton-chopped Matt Kibbe and his sidekicks off their higher horses, only to have them remount and send him back to Texas with an $8 million stipend to soothe his ruffled feathers.
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/wingnuts-disarray-dick-armey-leads-freedomw
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