Grassroots Bonus: Republican Consulting Firm That Runs One Wing Of The Tea Party Movement Paid Itself Almost $1 Million Dollars From Donations It Collected From Rightwing Suckers. Ha-ha! - By

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What You Should Know / December 29, 2009

Grassroots Bonus: Republican Consulting Firm That Runs One Wing Of The Tea Party Movement Paid Itself Almost $1 Million Dollars From Donations It Collected From Rightwing Suckers. Ha-ha!

tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com -- The political action committee behind the Tea Party Express (TPE) -- which already has been slammed as inauthentic and corporate-controlled by rival factions in the Tea Party movement -- directed around two thirds of its spending during a recent reporting period back to the Republican consulting firm that created the PAC in the first place. Our Country Deserves Better (OCDB) spent around $1.33 million from July through November, according to FEC filings examined by TPMmuckraker. Of that sum, a total of $870,489 went to Sacramento-based GOP political consulting firm Russo, Marsh, and Associates, or people associated with it.