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(32,076 posts) Wed Dec 26, 2012, 11:31 AM Dec 2012

How a Former Congressman Staged a Literal Armed Coup of a Tea Party Group, With a Gun and Everything

How a Former Congressman Staged a Literal Armed Coup of a Tea Party Group, With a Gun and Everything

Max Read
http://gawker.com/

In September, Dick Armey, the former Republican House Majority Leader, wanted to re-assert control of FreedomWorks, the influential Tea Party political action group of which he was chair. So he did what any old, paranoid Republican would do: he brought a guy with a handgun in to fire everyone. More »

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