(NN&V Staff) – Leaders of various established grassroots tea party networks in Nevada are coming together to denounce the upstart Tea Party of Nevada political party and their candidate for the United States Senate. One of the organizers of the effort wrote yesterday, “We have had enough of this fake ‘Tea Party’ BS.”
Established Nevada tea party activists have been suspicious of and angry with the Tea Party of Nevada organizers since it was announced last month that they had achieved third-party ballot status in Nevada for the upcoming elections.
“As an active coalition of self-described Tea Party Patriots we were confused when we learned about this development,” Dustin Stockton Western Representation PAC wrote in his blog on February 16th. “We are an active part in the Tea Party movement and we have NO IDEA who these people are. It didn’t take long to quickly learn that the patriots who have built the Tea Party movement aren’t the people behind the Nevada Tea Party political party.”
Stockton has joined the tea party coalition group which has drafted a letter denouncing what is now derisively being referred to as “Tea Party Squared” which reads as follows:
We, the grassroots/tea party leaders of Nevada, speaking for the conservative activists in our communities, are united in issuing the following statement.
We are united in denouncing the TPN (Tea Party of Nevada).
The TPN is not a conservative party who speaks for grassroots and tea party activists in Nevada.
The TPN is not now, has never been, and will never be affiliated with grassroots efforts in Nevada.
The term “Tea Party Candidate” will no longer be used to indicate grassroots support for a candidate or candidates.
The TPN will not be invited to, or allowed to represent themselves at, conservative grassroots events and functions across Nevada.
We are united in our desire for fiscal responsibility, transparency, and accountability from legislators and in legislation from Carson City, NV and Washington, D.C.
We are united in opposition of progressive leanings towards unfunded mandates as a solution to appeasing special interest and delivering ‘social justice.’
We are united in the belief that our government should be inspiring pride and accountability, and personal strength and opportunity, not a path for us to follow to have our needs met as the government sees fit.
We, the tea party activists and grassroots organizers in Nevada, are united.
Signed,
Debbie Landis, Anger is Brewing
Diana Orrock, Nevada Patriots
Bob Clifford, Fallon Tea Party II
Travis Christensen, NvRA
Ron Stevens, Gardnerville Tea party
Janice Baldwin, P.A.C.T.
Frank Ricotta, Las Vegas Tea Party
Sheila Danish, Reject Reid
Eric Odom, Patriot Caucus
Charlene Bybee, Reno 9-12’ers
Rick Crain, Mesquite Tea Party
Dustin Stockton, Western Representation PAC
Tony Warren, National Precinct Alliance
Mike Myrhow, Winnemucca Tea PartyUPDATE: The following names have been added since original publication of this blog post:
Jesse Law, Citizens Awareness Network
DuaneSmithLibbe, Nevada Active Conservatives
Juanita Cox, Citizens in Action
Janine Hansen, Nevada Families Eagle Forum
Sally Minster, Glenn Beck Meetup Group
Jamie Costello, Grassroots Nevada
Jeff Waffle, Las Vegas 9-12ers
I think all tea party activists across the country should denounce the TPN not
only in Nevada. This is an attempt to get Reid reelected.
I think all Tea Party Activists across the country should denounce the The
Tea Party Navada political party this is just a ploy to get Reid re-elected.
I have been personally speaking out against this group since the very beginning – it is clear that this is a False Flag operation supported directly or indirectly by Harry Reid and/or Reid supporters.
Being able to prove this tie is essential to generating national press coverage of the False Flag nature of their effort, according to reporters at CNN and the Washington Post to whom I’ve talked yesterday and today. So I’m calling on all real Tea Party people to help investigate the backgrounds of the Tea Party Squared’s founders and candidates, and uncover direct or indirect (but provable) links between the Tea Party Squared and Reid (senior or junior).
Here are some facts and projections that need to be documented.
1. The candidate, Jon Scott Ashjian, has been reported to be facing an IRS Lien – that was in one of the media, but having direct proof would help.
2. One of Ashjian’s dozen or so businesses, a concrete construction firm, is being investigated by the Nevada Contractors Board. As the editor of Nevada’s Construction Zone, I’ve covered that Board for six years, and I have never known them to announce a suspect company without successfully bringing charges (they usually settle with the guilty party). It would be useful to have specific proof of this Contractors Board Action.
3. Since Ashjian and his partner (Barry Levinson, below) is involved in commercial real estate and construction – places where Harry and Rory Reid have made their fortunes (recall Harry’s scandal, having to refile his Senate financial disclosure form because he “forgot” a million-dollar piece of property he got without having his name in the deal). Both CNN and The Washington Post have told me they’d consider proof of some direct or indirect connection between Ashjian, Levinson or other founders of Tea Party Squared with Reid or Reid real estate or construction ventures would be a “smoking gun” the media couldn’t/wouldn’t ignore. We need someone who’s good at researching this kind of thing to find those connections if they exist.
4. One of the founders (and candidate Ashjian’s business partner), registered Democrat and local slip-and-fall attorney Barry Levinson (best known for defending porn-star and transplant “hero” John Wayne Bobbitt), has ties to previous Reid campaigns and to a MoveOn.org-affiliated “Bush-Lied” anti-war group. Having proof of those involvements (reported in the press but not substantiated by primary source information) would go a long way toward discrediting these bozos with the media and the public.
SO … if you’ve got some internet research skills or contacts, you can make a huge difference for the REAL Tea Party Movement, and help to dethrone Harry (and Rory) Reid if you can find such information. Get it to me, Ned Barnett (ned – at – barnettmarcom – dot – com) or give it to Chuck Muth or Elizabeth Crum, both of whom will know what to do with the information.
We need your help.
Ned Barnett
This voter is mad as hell! http://tinyurl.com/teadoff
I’m glad that the truth is coming out about this ERSATZ “TEE Party”…………..clever–but–this should croak HARRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is why I was shockwhen I watch this unknown Jon Ashjiian as the tea party candidate.I am was shock.Harry Reid is so use playing dirty as usual.