05-14-2013, 08:37 PM
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in a van by the river
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Originally Posted by mayabong
I didn't need to read the article cause I was at the Ron Paul Tea party in LA in 2007. I showed you the proof there are tons of other videos. Sorry it goes against your narrative.
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So you wont even look at the report, instead you just know better? I hate to break it to you but Tea Party was in the works long before 2007.
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CSE, one of the third-party ‘anti-tax’ tobacco industry partners, was a think tank dedicated to free market economics. CSE (which split into AFP and FreedomWorks in 2004) was co-founded in 1984 by David Koch, of Koch Industries, and Richard Fink, former professor of economics at George Mason University, who has worked for Koch Industries since 1990.3 ,51 CSE supported the agendas of the tobacco and other industries, including oil, chemical, pharmaceutical and telecommunications, and was funded by them.52 In 2002, before Tea Party politics were widely discussed in the mainstream media, CSE started its US Tea Party (http://www.usteaparty.com) project, the website of which stated ‘our US Tea Party is a national event, hosted continuously online and open to all Americans who feel our taxes are too high and the tax code is too complicated.’53 Between 1991 and 2002 the tobacco companies, mainly Philip Morris, provided CSE with at least US$5.3 million (see online supplementary table S3). Philip Morris gave CSE US$250 000 annually in the early 1990s to start six state chapters.41
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That was the first instance of the big tobacco backed tea party in 91-2002. Several years before your little Ron Paul rallies.  |
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