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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Mon Jan 30, 2012, 02:29 PM Jan 2012

'Tea Party 10' Targeted In Multimillion Dollar Campaign By Liberal Super PAC

WASHINGTON -- A liberal super PAC is set Monday to launch what it is billing as a multimillion dollar campaign to "Take Down the Tea Party Ten."

The effort by the progressive outfit CREDO aims to use the new big-spending super PAC model, which can accept unlimited donations, to back extensive local organizing and "education" aimed at defeating 10 members of Congress seen by the left as the worst of the worst.

"We're talking about some of the most odious members of Congress. Even for Republicans these guys are low," said Campaign Manager Matthew "Mudcat" Arnold in a statement.

"We're going to empower local activists to organize their friends and neighbors to lay out the truth about their representatives in the most basic terms," Arnold added. "They are anti-woman. They are anti-science. They are hypocritical, bigoted, and have said and done things that are downright crazy. They've done more to embarrass their constituents than they have to govern or work toward solutions. They are unfit for Congress, and we're going to help their constituents hold them accountable."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/tea-party-ten-targeted-in_n_1241084.html

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'Tea Party 10' Targeted In Multimillion Dollar Campaign By Liberal Super PAC (Original Post) Purveyor Jan 2012 OP
and suddenly, $$$ being spent freely in political campaigns zbdent Jan 2012 #1
Good too hear! Tx4obama Jan 2012 #2

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
2. Good too hear!
Tue Jan 31, 2012, 04:16 AM
Jan 2012

They need to put Michele Bachmann on the LIST too. Bachmann was the one that organized the TeaParty caucus in The U.S. House last year (or the year before).
She must be booted out too !!!
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From the article...

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The first six lawmakers targeted by the group are Reps. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.), Steve King (R-Iowa), Allen West (R-Fla), Joe Walsh (R-Ill.), Frank Guinta (R-N.H.), and Chip Cravaack (R-Minn.). Four more will be chosen by CREDO's members.

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