Tea Party convention featuring Bachmann and hate group leader Bradlee Dean canceled

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Tea Party convention featuring Bachmann, Bradlee Dean canceled
Low attendance behind decision to cut Freedom Jamboree
by Andy Birkley

Organizers for the Freedom Jamboree, billed as the national tea party straw poll convention, announced on Wednesday that the event has been canceled due to low attendance. The conference had pulled in two of Minnesota most controversial figures, presidential candidate Michele Bachmann and rightwing preacher Bradlee Dean. It was also being organized by Iowa’s Bob Vander Plaats, whose organization, The Family Leader, sparked an uproar in the state after it released a presidential pledge on marriage.

“Everything was set up,” said William Temple, one of the organizers, told the Kansas City Star. “It was just the tea parties themselves weren’t prepared to spend the money to travel and bring their families.”

Roll Call notes that the organizers also had subpar fundraising in addition to low attendance, and it’s the second tea party convention in two years to be canceled because of low attendance.

Along with Bachmann and Dean, presidential candidate Rick Santorum had also accepted an invitation to the jamboree, which was scheduled for the last weekend in September.

http://minnesotaindependent.com/84476/freedom-jamboree-cancelled-bachmann-bradlee-dean

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1. You know, there are millions of anti-war people, yet who does the media follow?

A few thousand whack jobs. :eyes:

[Bjorn Against]

4. While I agree with you generally...

This story has gotten little media coverage, probably because it does not reflect well on the Tea Party. The Minnesota Independent is not a corporate source, this is independent media reporting this.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Gee, a teabagger jamboree cancelled?

How disappointing.

:rofl:

[Gman]

3. Snicker

[Booster]

5. Seems to me the Bachmann's are scrambling all over the place

trying to get their house in order. Interesting to watch, but I don't think they'll be able to do it.

[lamp_shade]

6. But... the "Birther Summit" is still on. They even scheduled a date. See here >

http://www.birthersummit.org/news/13-birther-summit-sets-event-dates.html