DID YOU KNOW #1: That 42% of all money spent by the TPX is sent to Sal/Janet Russo owned companies?
DID YOU KNOW #2: TPX founders Sal Russo and Joe Wierzbicki are owners or executives at the Tea Party Express, King Media and Russo, Marsh and Associates?
DID YOU KNOW #3: The TPX spent $1600 for 6 meals at Chops Restaurant in 2009? This according to their accounting firm and FEC records. The TPX denies this but will not offer opposing proof.
DID YOU KNOW #4: Lloyd Marcus, Diana Nagy and the other TPX “worker bees” shouldn’t be held accountable for the misdeeds of TPX leadership?
DID YOU KNOW #5: The #TPX spent $117K+ on Holland America Cruises for staff to “help” Joe Miller? They claim it was “cheaper”?
DID YOU KNOW #6: That according to records the TPX spent $500 on non-existent car rental company that shares an address with a prominent TPX staff member?
DID YOU KNOW #7: I fully support the Tea Party Movement but believe the Tea Party Express is using it to line their own pockets and prop up Russo, Marsh and Associates?
DID YOU KNOW #8: That Kelly Eustis, former TPX Political Director, said of the TPX that “they were hijacking the movement for personal and business gains without regard for real Tea Party activists”?
DID YOU KNOW #9: When the TPX chose to endorse Sharron Angle and call her the “only true Tea Party candidate” in the Nevada race, the Tea Party Nation responded with “We can no longer stand and let misinformation about Nevada race go uncontested”?
DID YOU KNOW #10: Ned Ryun, President of “American Majority” said of the TPX “I am concerned they’re using the Tea Party Express as marketing gimmick to line the pockets of consultants” ?
DID YOU KNOW #11: The TPX was booted from the National Tea Party Federation because of their backing of Mark Williams?
DID YOU KNOW #12: Howard Kooligan, TPX co-chair, in 2006 tried pass off pictures of himself on an Istanbul street as having been taken on a trip to Baghdad?
DID YOU KNOW #13: I fully support the Tea Party Movement but believe the TPX is using it to line their own pockets?
DID YOU KNOW #14: That 7.1 cents of every dollar donated to the TPX goes to paying for Credit Card Processing fees?
DID YOU KNOW #15: Justifying the TPX money process is like saying it’s OK to rob a bank if you give half to a charity?
DID YOU KNOW #16: The TPX No. 1 expense is Russo, Marsh and Associates ($3.7M)? That’s nearly 2.5 times the No. 2 expense of “Advertising” ($1.4M).
DID YOU KNOW #17: The Liberty First PAC (i.e. Eric Odom) once said of the TPX “The TPX doesn’t speak for the entire movement. No organization can nor should they try”
DID YOU KNOW #18: The TPX has done nearly a quarter of a million dollars in business with Frontline Strategies? Interestingly Levi Russell is the Communications Director for the TPX and also a VP for Frontline Strategies.
