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If Boehner "walked among" Tea Party members in Erie County, OH, they may provide interesting insight for his new "manifesto." As the Guardian's Leo Hickman reports, a local Ohio newspaper the Sandusky Register obtained an email sent out last week by a local Tea party group called The Freedom Institute of Erie County. According to the email, the Tea Party group is creating a "Conservative voter guide" on the positions of candidates seeking office in upcoming elections in order to "rate, recommend, and endorse candidates" based on how they answer 15 questions.
Ohio Tea Party Survey To Candidates: Reject Gay Rights, Let God Deal With Climate Change
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... the Freedom Institute's purpose is to act as the government's watchdog and to "raise funds to advocate, advertise, educate, and inform the public on constitutionally conservative positions and conservative candidates we endorse." Membership only requires taking "the Patriots Oath" constructed by Iran Contra operative Oliver North and right-wing Focus on the Family founder Dr. James Dobson. But ab endorsement, it seems, requires a rejection of LGBT rights and that environmental regulation be "left to God."
That partially explains why they elect Boner. Boy I'm glad I don't live anywhere near there. Ollie North and James Dobson? I wonder if they've a good movement up there in the last 10 years.
#1 - Wed Sep 1, 2010 1:18 AM EDTBeen saying it all along. The teabaggers are nothing more than the latest conservative evangelical Christian fascist movement in disguise.
#2 - Wed Sep 1, 2010 2:10 AM EDTLet's see. Conevchrifasmov, sounds like a Russian novel. If they win and the balance tips it will be a Russian novel, a dark one.
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