{"id":7893,"date":"2011-09-03T13:01:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T17:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=7893"},"modified":"2011-09-03T14:03:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T18:03:31","slug":"sarah-palin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2011\/09\/03\/sarah-palin\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the tea party movement started to gain in popularity in late 2008, Sarah Palin was looked upon as a viable champion of the Constitution. <\/p>\n<p>However, Palin seems to be creating her own tea party reality, to suit her own purposes.<\/p>\n<p>A group called Tea Party America is a top-down astro-turfing operation that seems to have been created in 2011 for the sole purpose of promoting (supposedly) tea party-friendly candidates. One of their co-founders is a Herman Cain campaign worker.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.com\/seattlepolitics\/2011\/09\/02\/sarah-mitt-rick-a-wild-tea-party-weekend\/\">According to this article, Palin apparently refused to come to one of TPoA&#8217;s events unless organizers from Tea Party of America bounced 2010 Delaware GOP Senate candidate Christine O\u2019Donnell from the program. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>While Palin creates  her own tea party reality with such groups as <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/12\/tea_party_express_pac_keeps_funneling_money_to_gop_consulting_firm.php#more\">TPE<\/a> (another top-down group founded in 2009 by GOP consultant Sal Russo) this weekend, she has been ignoring at least 6 requests from the grassroots in NH to meet with all 50 tea party leaders.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/12\/tea_party_express_pac_keeps_funneling_money_to_gop_consulting_firm.php#more\">Read more about who the TPE really is&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the tea party movement started to gain in popularity in late 2008, Sarah Palin was looked upon as a viable champion of the Constitution. However, Palin seems to be creating her own tea party reality, to suit her own purposes. A group called Tea Party America is a top-down astro-turfing operation that seems to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7893"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7897,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893\/revisions\/7897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}