Saturday, January 23, 2010

Is the Tea Party Really Just a Profit Center?

Next week in Nashville the Tea Party faithful are scheduled to attend their first national convention which will feature a big speech by Sarah Palin. The national news media pointedly not invited to attend except for a few favorites.
However the word out of Nashville is that the convention is being presented by a 'for profit' company which is charging attending $546 a head, nearly double the price of the other national conventions. The organizer of the event, a Nashville attorney, says he doesn't plan to make a lot of money on the tea partiers, but registering as a for-profit gives him more flexibility in monetizing the movement later on.

2 comments:

Rainy said...

what a bunch of suckers...but I know they prefer the title of "tea baggers"

Lytton said...

Here is the link to a news story: http://tinyurl.com/ye2s8je