Oh noes!
A Tea Party convention billed as the coming together of the grass-roots groups that began sprouting up around the country a year ago is unraveling as sponsors and participants pull out to protest its expense and express concerns about "profiteering."
..."We are very concerned about the appearance of [Tea Party Nation, the convention organizer] profiteering and exploitation of the grass-roots movement," [Philip Glass, the national director of the National Precinct Alliance] said in a statement. "We were under the impression that T.P.N. was a nonprofit organization like N.P.A., interested only in uniting and educating Tea Party activists on how to make a real difference in the political arena."
Why, oh why, would he be so concerned about profiteering and exploitation by such good people?!
The convention, to be held in Nashville in early February, made a splash by attracting big-name politicians. (Former Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska is scheduled to deliver the keynote speech.) But some groups have criticized the cost — $549 per ticket and a $9.95 fee, plus hotel and airfare — as out of reach for the average tea partier.
LOL! Ya think?!
And they have balked at Ms. Palin's speaking fee, which news reports have put at $100,000, a figure that organizers will not confirm or deny.
Apparently, Palin didn't get the memo that the going rate is
$4.95.
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