NPR maps the connections between the GOP and "independent grass roots" groups.

[Cry Havoc]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...yId=130845545?

[TeyshaBlue]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...yId=130845545?

Shocking!...well, not really. Like, who didn't understand this?

[TeyshaBlue]

There is some wry humor to be found between the descriptors used when exposing groups on either side.


From an earlier story about exactly the same thing:

Independent Group Airs Anti-McCain Ad


Today's story:

A Web Of GOP Influence


lolz

[boutons_deux]

The Tea Party and the Republican Party Are the Same

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lincol...tml?view=print



Is the Religious Right Taking Over the Tea Party?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tim-ko...tml?view=print



What Will Tea Party Members Do When Their Politicians Betray Them?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-j...tml?view=print

maybe, Angle's "2nd Amendment remedies"?



Wall Street's best friend: The Tea Party

http://www.salon.com/technology/how_...rty/index.html



Tea Party movement funding

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php...vement_funding

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The s and their orgs wouldn't have founded and funded the tea party if the the tea party was targeting the real culprits in America.

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The Tea Party "Grassroots" Movement is Anything But

Billionaires are on the attack, exploiting campaign finance loopholes to prop-up phony "grassroots" political movements. The most egregious—and successful—effort has been waged by David Koch, a long-time GOP fundraiser who is now backing major Tea Party organizers. Koch is the executive vice president of Koch Industries, Inc., which refines and distributes petroleum and other raw materials.

As Adele Stan details in her latest in-depth expose for AlterNet and The Nation Investigative Fund, Koch has found ways to funnel money to the Tea Party in just about every way imaginable. But it's most sinister maneuver was the establishment of two right-wing front groups that keep their donors anonymous. After Citizens United, we'll never know how much money Koch is funneling to the Tea Party, and his front groups—FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity—provide the same cover for other elites.

How much cover? Americans for Prosperity brags that they'll spend at least $45 million on the 2010 elections, while FreedomWorks plans to throw in another $10 million.

As Stan emphasizes, these two groups are the major organizers of all things Tea Party. They provided logistical organizing for Glenn Beck's 9/12 rally, held over 300 rallies against health care reform and hosted "voter education" workshops pushing the glories of deregulation to anyone who would listen. They even have an unofficial partnership with Fox News, hosting conservative Fox personalities at their rallies, which are, in turn, promoted by Fox programming. Glenn Beck is even featured in advertisements and fundraising pitches for FreedomWorks.

The anonymity provided by Koch's front-groups is critical to the Tea Party's appeal. In popular media, the Tea Party is often described as a grassroots coalition of ordinary, mad-as- citizens. That image is hard to sustain in the face of a wildly expensive top-down campaign orchestrated by billionaires.

http://www.truth-out.org/campaign-ca...ws+Politics%29