has there been a coup at Freedomworks, the Tea Party's darling?

[colfax]

(WASHINGTON) -- Former House majority leader Dick Armey says he took an $8 million consulting deal in return for leaving the conservative organization FreedomWorks because the group was "dishonest" and because he "couldn't leave with empty pockets."

Sounds like a bloodless coup to me. Armey was making so many waves and setting off such a stink about the way well-heeled GOPpers were lining their pockets with contributions from GOPper treads that they paid him $8 million to leave!

What did he know about them that made it worth $8 million to shut him up?

http://abcnewsradioonline.com/polit...deal-to-leave-freedomworks.html#ixzz2Gegj5CHa

 

[Saladin2]

I heard Armey showed up at a meeting with a bodyguard who was openly carrying a side arm...Maybe these Tea party Ass holes will shoot each other and save America from their Non-sense?...One can only hope

 

[Dino]

If he actually made quotes like that I woulda been interested. Funny I don't see them.

Don't know who wrote it but it's kind of funny how his direct quotes are different from what's in the teaser paragraph you posted.

 

[TomFitz]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...095b68-4545-11e2-8061-253bccfc7532_story.html

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS...e-freedomworks/story?id=18077760#.UOHwWHc1CSp

And, I don't doubt that Armey said it.

Armey is one of a flood of former Republican Congressional leaders who left public office for offices on K Street.

FreedomWorks was originally established as a front for Armey's K Steet lobbying and public relations shop. It's intent was to further Mr Armey's interest while shaking down influential Texas and Wall Street types to finance the operation and line the pockets of Mr Armey et all while doing it.

The tea party movement was coordinated in Washington and financed by Wall Street and Travis street from the start.

The miraculous and suden appearance of tea party websites, organizors, trainers, buses, pre printed literature and signs was no accident. It was all run by the conservative business establishment.

Armey is old, and he made his money. So, like most of the K Street types, he lost interest in the tea party right after the 2010 elections, which is when the busses, pre printed literature, earnest organizers disappeared and the bills for the web hosting went unpaid.

But Armey wanted back in, only to learn that a younger operative had taken over his baby and was now on the payroll of an obscure rigth wing multi millionaire from Ohio

Same scam, different checkbook.

So, Armey did what any good Republican does, he holds them up for a big payout.

 

[middleview]

If he actually made quotes like that I woulda been interested. Funny I don't see them.

Don't know who wrote it but it's kind of funny how his direct quotes are different from what's in the teaser paragraph you posted.

Here is what he said...

"I must say the trespass against me was so comprehensive and so eroding of my critical asset -- and my critical asset is my relationship with the press," Armey said. "I actually had a court case, a case I could have taken and I did consider doing so, but we decided we wanted to try and handle it quietly outside of the press pursuant to the condition was I could not work with these guys anymore. You can't take people who you indisputably understand to be dishonest and dangerous to the organization in their dishonesty and continue working with them."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS...ion-deal-leave-freedomworks/story?id=18077760

 

[Gramps]

Add to that sugggestion that they sell tickets for the shootout and there'll be enough money to pay off the national debt. I'd buy one and be there for the performance of a second "greatest story every told". WOW! You one smart guy, BA.

Gramps

I heard Armey showed up at a meeting with a bodyguard who was openly carrying a side arm...Maybe these Tea party Ass holes will shoot each other and save America from their Non-sense?...One can only hope

 

[colfax]

Here is what he said...

"I must say the trespass against me was so comprehensive and so eroding of my critical asset -- and my critical asset is my relationship with the press," Armey said. "I actually had a court case, a case I could have taken and I did consider doing so, but we decided we wanted to try and handle it quietly outside of the press pursuant to the condition was I could not work with these guys anymore. You can't take people who you indisputably understand to be dishonest and dangerous to the organization in their dishonesty and continue working with them."

I'll bet Freedomwork's tax-deductable donations are suffering.

I so get amused watching this "knock-down, drag-out" in TP's minions and chuckling over the rightie foundations so pissed that their Fox News ad leading to a $500,000 donation to FW went to buy off Dick Armey.

 

[TomFitz]

I hope they are pissed off.

But they should know that this is standard practice in right wing world.

Most of these tea party organizations were fronts designed primarily to shake down the faithful and the big doners so that the people on K Street who ran the whole thing could take big rake offs.

Karl Rove and Dick Morris got exposed right after the election. But these scams have been run by the likes of Gorver Nordquist, Oliver North, and Ralph Reed for years.

Their business model is televangelism.

Look at any prominent right wing website, and see how much of it is devoted to fundraising. It's a constant drumbeat of links, pop up, data capture scams etc.