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http://www.nationalteapartyconvention.com/home.aspx
The First National Tea Party Convention is officially SOLD OUT!!!!
You may place your name on the waiting list in the event additional tickets become available. Thank you and we look forward to seeing everyone at the Convention!
Banquet Only tickets (featuring keynote speaker Sarah Palin) still available!
Tea Party Nation is pleased to announce the First National Tea Party Convention. The convention is aimed at bringing the Tea Party Movement leaders together from around the nation for the purpose of networking and supporting the movement's multiple organizations' principal goals. This event is co-sponsored by other national groups that believe in a responsible and limited federal government that is responsive to all the people. Our Sponsors include Tea Party Emporium, Judicial Watch, Eagle Forum, The Leadership Institute, Vision America, SurgeUSA, Smart Girl Politics and National Taxpayers Union. Participants include: Tea Party Express, The Memphis Tea Party, National Precinct Alliance, Young Americans for Freedom, The Evergreen/Conifer Tea Party, North Carolina Freedom Tea Party, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, Joseph Farah, Angela McGlowan, Judge Roy Moore, Tom Fitton, Bruce Donnelly, Ana Puig, Steve Milloy, Mark Skoda, Keli Carender (aka Liberty Belle), Dr. B. Leland Baker, Walter Fitzgerald, Philip Glass, Dr. Rick Scarborough, David DeGerolamo and Lori Christenson.
Special Keynote Speaker for the event will be Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska (2006-2009) and 2008 Republican Vice Presidential Nominee.
And this is what Fred Conrad of NYT had to say about the convention:
" The entire Tea Party Convention is a profit-seeking affair charging $560 a ticket plus the cost of a room at the Opryland Hotel. Among the conventions eight listed sponsors is Tea Party Emporium, which gives as its contact address 444 Madison Avenue in New York, also home to the high-fashion brand Burberry. This emporiums Web site offers a bejeweled tea bag at $89.99 for those furious at a government hell bent on the largest redistribution of wealth in history.
Palin has far more grandiose ambitions. She recently signed on as a speaker for the first Tea Party Convention, scheduled next month in Nashville even though she had turned down a speaking invitation from the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, the traditional meet-and-greet for the right. The conservative conference doesnt pay. The Tea Party Convention does. A blogger at Nashville Scene reported that Palins price for the event was $120,000.
Last week a prominent right-wing blogger, Erick Erickson of RedState.com, finally figured out that the Tea Party Convention smells scammy, likening it to one of those Nigerian e-mails promising untold millions. Such rumbling about the movements being co-opted by hucksters may explain why Palin used her first paid appearance at Fox last Tuesday to tell Bill OReilly that she would recycle her own tea party profits in political contributions