{"id":421810,"date":"2010-03-12T18:53:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T22:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79194"},"modified":"2010-03-12T18:53:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T22:53:30","slug":"tea-party-signs-sponsored-by-the-rnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/421810","title":{"rendered":"Tea Party Signs, Sponsored by the RNC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Pappas <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2010\/03\/12\/tea-partiers-hand-out-signs-paid-for-by-republican-national-committee\/\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Republican National Committee is paying for signs and political buttons used by Tea Party groups \u2014 despite widespread disagreement among the conservative, grassroots activists on whether the movement should work to elect candidates within the Republican party or steer clear from it.<span id=\"more-79194\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The items, paid for by the RNC, were on full display at a Friday press conference of Tea Party activists in Washington. At the afternoon event at the Capitol Hill Suites, activists in town for the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2010\/03\/05\/tea-party-coalition-plans-to-%E2%80%98take-the-town-halls-to-washington%E2%80%99\/\">Take the Town Halls to Washington<\/a>\u201d project passed out the red-white-and-blue buttons and signs emblazoned with the words \u201cListen to Me!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Text at the bottom of the sign reads: \u201cPaid for by the Republican National Committee.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"border: medium none ; overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;\">The news comes in a report about the first push of the &#8220;Take the Town Halls&#8221; event, which has introduced a new conservative star: Dr. Milton Wolf. Who is he? I&#8217;ll let <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/mar\/11\/obama-family-health-care-fracas\/\">his Washington Times bio<\/a> explain.<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"border: medium none ; overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;\">Dr. Milton R. Wolf is a radiologist in Kansas. He is Barack Obama&#8217;s second cousin once removed. President Obama&#8217;s great-great grandfather, Thomas Creekmore McCurry, is Dr. Wolf&#8217;s great-grandfather. Dr. Wolf&#8217;s mother, Anna Margaret McCurry, was five years older than Mr. Obama&#8217;s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham. The two were childhood friends until the Dunhams moved from Kansas to Seattle in 1955.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"border: medium none ; overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;\">Wolf on Fox and Friends:<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: medium none ; overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UtY6L-eu70A&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UtY6L-eu70A&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Pappas reports: The Republican National Committee is paying for signs and political buttons used by Tea Party groups \u2014 despite widespread disagreement among the conservative, grassroots activists on whether the movement should work to elect candidates within the Republican party or steer clear from it. 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