Jenny Beth Martin Who Do You Think You Are?

As we’ve written before, the so-called “Tea Party Patriots” group is nothing more than a GOP PAC that was started in 2009 by stealing the name of our grassroots issues movement from 2007 and pretending it was original.

Numerous GOP consultants, GOP fundraiser gurus, and self-serving lawyers did the same thing, establishing their own fake “tea party” groups under various other names, and have since scammed millions of dollars from unsuspecting conservatives who had no idea what the real original tea party stood for or why it was formed. Nothing good has ever come of these groups, and candidates are now labeled “tea party” when there is no such thing. They have also succeeded in getting the movement reviled by the liberal media.

No real tea party has an office in DC

Sal Russo, principal of Tea Party Express, raked in more than $800,000 during the 2010 election cycle from Tea Party Express for his public relations and media companies, Amy Kremer, the Express’ director of grassroots and coalitions, earned $49,000 during the same period, often representing Tea Party Express at rallies and in the media. Meanwhile, Jenny Beth Martin, national coordinator of Tea Party Patriots, takes in $72,000 a year.

But these fakers do little for our movement and often end up endorsing the very candidates we have worked to expose as we saw with Tea Party Express and Mitt Romney.

In the final analysis, they have done exactly what the tea party was NOT set up for — they have funded and endorsed the very establishment we fought from the beginning.

We will repeat clearly and unequivocally that the NH Tea Party Coalition does NOT run, fund, or endorse candidates, and we are NOT an arm of the establishment GOP nor do we intend to be absorbed by it to make us “compromise” as Russo has revealed as the purpose of setting up his group. We will continue to serve the original mission of the tea party which started on December 16, 2007 at Faneuil Hall Boston and with hundreds of “tea-tosses” at the harbors around the country.

Jenny Beth Martin, please leave New Hampshire and take your deceptive door hangers with you.