*raises eyebrow* Yes, the Tea party did exist before 2009.
Let's take the WayBack Machine back to 2002... To the first Tea Party website sponsored by the Citizens for a Sound Economy, funded by the Koch Brothers as part of their anti-regulation goals. The website was taken down in 2011, but the URL is still owned by Freedomworks (an offshoot of CSE).
Here's the PDF file from the researchers who were looking at a the formation of the Tea Party and comparing the connections and links to the Anti-Tobacco regulation groups of the 1980's... you know, the ones that lied for 40 years and threw lots of money to create such astroturf groups? They have a lot of experience to draw on there.
RMH
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
- Albert Einstein
Let's take the WayBack Machine back to 2002... To the first Tea Party website sponsored by the Citizens for a Sound Economy, funded by the Koch Brothers as part of their anti-regulation goals. The website was taken down in 2011, but the URL is still owned by Freedomworks (an offshoot of CSE).
Here's the PDF file from the researchers who were looking at a the formation of the Tea Party and comparing the connections and links to the Anti-Tobacco regulation groups of the 1980's... you know, the ones that lied for 40 years and threw lots of money to create such astroturf groups? They have a lot of experience to draw on there.
RMH
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
- Albert Einstein