Tuesday, December 1, 2009

‘Official Chicago Tea Party’ distances itself from heckling by ‘splinter’ tea party group.

At a town hall event in Illinois earlier this month, tea party activists heckled a woman who recounted how her daughter-in-law and her unborn grandchild died because they didn’t have health insurance. These activists were encouraged to attend the event by the Chicago Tea Party Patriots, which sent around a flier railing against “socialized medicine.” After media outlets reported the heckling, the “Official Chicago Tea Party” was forced to distance itself and firmly denounce theSource: Think Progress RSS Feed

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