Minnick rejects Tea Party endorsement

[Lunar]

Rep. Walt Minnick (D-Idaho) sent a letter to the Tea Party Express Monday calling the blog post from activist Mark Williams “reprehensible.”

“Since the Tea Party Express refuses to reject and rebuke Mr. Williams, I have no choice but to decline your endorsement,” Minnick wrote, adding that he hopes the group eventually sees “the error of its ways.”

Williams sparked a furor last week when he posted a “satirical” letter from NAACP head Ben Jealous to President Abraham Lincoln.  “We Colored People have taken a vote and decided that we don't cotton to that whole emancipation thing. Freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves, and take consequences along with the rewards,” the letter said. “That is just far too much to ask of us Colored People and we demand that it stop!”



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[tpfkaw]

That's really an idiotic decision for a very vulnerable incumbent to make - he won't gain any votes from the (very few in number) Democratic partisans, who would vote for him anyway, but he'll lose a ton of votes from conservatives who felt comfortable voting for him due to the Tea Party endorsement.

[The Mikado]

That's really an idiotic decision for a very vulnerable incumbent to make - he won't gain any votes from the (very few in number) Democratic partisans, who would vote for him anyway, but he'll lose a ton of votes from conservatives who felt comfortable voting for him due to the Tea Party endorsement.

It's not like he's going to be reelected no matter what he does, he might as well take a principled stand.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

He rejected the endorsement of the "Tea Party Express", the national astroturf group. He says in his statement that he enjoys good relations with the local tea partiers.

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[SvenssonRS]

Good. I can't imagine that carrying the endorsement of a national party whose main face is Sarah Palin would have done him any good.

[minionofmidas]

And I thought Raul Labrador was sort of a tea partier? Wasn't he branded as such earlier?

[SvenssonRS]

And I thought Raul Labrador was sort of a tea partier? Wasn't he branded as such earlier?

Only race in the nation where both candidates have Tea Party support.

(P.S. And Minnick still will, since the Tea Party Express, I expect, won't really mean jack - it's all up to the Tea Partiers in his district)

[Mechaman]

More on the "Tea Party Express":

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Oh boy oh boy, I wonder how many of them are sweating bullets over this latest story?

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

Good. I can't imagine that carrying the endorsement of a national party whose main face is Sarah Palin would have done him any good.

It's Idaho.  One of the few states where it would.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

That's really an idiotic decision for a very vulnerable incumbent to make - he won't gain any votes from the (very few in number) Democratic partisans, who would vote for him anyway, but he'll lose a ton of votes from conservatives who felt comfortable voting for him due to the Tea Party endorsement.

It's not like he's going to be reelected no matter what he does, he might as well take a principled stand.

Actually it appears that he may be favored, oddly enough.