Montana Tea Party: 'Operation Wetback' GOPer Isn't One Of Ours

[ErikJ]

Montana Tea Partiers don't want to be affiliated with a candidate who claims to be one of their own.

The Montana Tea Party Coalition is denying any connection to congressional candidate Drew Turiano who identifies himself as a tea party Republican, according to The Missoulian. None of the 17 member groups of the coalition said Turiano had been at their respective events.

Jay Anderson, a member of the media committee for the Montana Tea Party Coalition, said that Turiano's identification should be fact checked.

"We also find it alarming that the media made no effort to substantiate his claim," Anderson told the Montana newspaper.

Turiano noted that the coalition does not usually endorse specific political candidates.

That's not all the rejection Turiano has gotten recently. He was excluded from a Lincoln-Reagan Dinner on Saturday by local Republicans who cited the candidate's support for "Operation Wetback," a plan to deport all immigrants who live in the country illegally as well as their children.

Turiano is running for the seat currently held by Rep. Steve Daines (R-MT).

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[LiberalAndProud]

1. Sounds like a popular guy.

When even the tparty doesn't want you, where do you go?

[TreasonousBastard]

2. "Operation Wetback"??? Even if you believe it...

who's so screwed up to say it?

[ErikJ]

3. That's why they're trying to deny him so hard....

because he pulls back the curtain to openly display who and what they really are

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Can't tell from here, but...

maybe he is the "real" teabagger and shows them for what they are.

Hope is alive, though, for that slight possibility that some of them have a shred of decency and just don't like the guy.