{"id":415836,"date":"2010-03-11T10:40:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T15:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78991"},"modified":"2010-03-11T10:40:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T15:40:43","slug":"tea-party-nation-knocks-anti-reid-%e2%80%98tea-party%e2%80%99-for-copyright-infringement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/415836","title":{"rendered":"Tea Party Nation Knocks Anti-Reid \u2018Tea Party\u2019 for Copyright Infringement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tea Party Nation, the group that sponsored the National Tea Party Convention and announced a clear stance against third parties, is helping the effort to discredit the &#8220;Tea Party&#8221; candidate in Nevada by accusing him of trademark infringement. The group accuses the candidate, <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/78514\/tea-party-candidate-against-reid-owes-more-than-200000-in-back-taxes\">John Ashjian<\/a>, of being &#8220;liberal-funded&#8221; &#8212; an allegation I haven&#8217;t seen proof to back up.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em;\">Here&#8217;s TPN&#8217;s message to its members.<span id=\"more-78991\"><\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em;\">It has recently come to our attention that an email is circulating referring to the newly established liberal-funded Tea Party of Nevada as TPN.\u00a0 This email repeatedly disparages the Tea Party group using the acronym TPN.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em;\">TPN &#8211; Tea Party Nation is Trademarked.\u00a0 If you receive this email or have forwarded this email, please make any and all attempts to correct this misinformation.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em;\">TPN (Tea Party Nation) is against the formation of a third party political party.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em;\"><br style=\"font-size: 1em;\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em;\">Thank you for your help in this matter.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em;\"><br style=\"font-size: 1em;\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em;\">Sherry Phillips<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em;\">Vice President<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em;\">Tea Party Nation<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tea Party Nation, the group that sponsored the National Tea Party Convention and announced a clear stance against third parties, is helping the effort to discredit the &#8220;Tea Party&#8221; candidate in Nevada by accusing him of trademark infringement. The group accuses the candidate, John Ashjian, of being &#8220;liberal-funded&#8221; &#8212; an allegation I haven&#8217;t seen proof [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}