It's been suggested for some time now that the Tea Party was not some organic movement like OWS was. Turns out the two main origination behind the Tea Party, Americans for Prosperity & Freedomworks were actually originally one organization called Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE), which was linked to Big Tobacco and was created by the Koch Brothers.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brenda...b_2663125.html
A Small part of the article..
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"The common public understanding of the origins of the Tea Party is that it is a popular grassroots uprising that began with anti-tax protests in 2009.
However, the Quarterback study reveals that in 2002, the Kochs and tobacco-backed CSE designed and made public the first Tea Party Movement website under the web address www.usteaparty.com. Here's a screenshot of the archived U.S. Tea Party site, as it appeared online on Sept. 13, 2002:"
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Certainly worth a read, and shows what a lot of people suspected, that the Tea Party was never a grass Root group but rather pre-planned and created by special interest. Finally it's been proven by the National Cancer Institute of all people..
Ironically the Tea Party has been also trying to push lower taxes for big tobacco.. Go figure..