Williams resigns as Tea Party Express spokesman

[sinkingfeeling]

Source: CNN.com

Washington (CNN) – Tea Party Express spokesman and former chairman Mark Williams has resigned his post, the group said Friday in a statement.

"The media coverage over a recent satirical posting on my personal MarkTalk.com blog risks injuring the Tea Party Express, the tea party movement as a whole, and the people in this movement who I respect and admire so much," Williams said in resignation letter released Friday. "It has become increasingly unacceptable that the media and our domestic enemies continue to anoint me as the official voice of a massively diverse and broad-based movement."

In his letter of resignation, Williams said he will continue to advocate for Tea Party issues, but will no longer be associated with the Tea Party Express because his association with the group has become a liability.

"We are in a war for the future of this country and the Left and their allies in the news media have decided to use my personal comments and views as a weapon to injure the Tea Party movement and conservative activists. I will simply not allow them to do this," Williams said.


Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/23/williams-resigns-as-tea-party-express-spokesman/?hpt=T2&fbid=Y09lShoamaG

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Heartbreaking, isn't it?

[EFerrari]

1. Does he get to keep his hood?

[FailureToCommunicate]

5. Good one! A hood with tea bags dangling from it...

[leftofcool]

2. My heart just bleeds.

[dtexdem]

3. He will continue to advocate racism.

And the nasty old left and the conservative media decided to impose consequences for his personal outrages. ;-)

[Dogtown]

4. And Anita Bryant can't sell orange juice anymore...

Damned leftish bullies!

[Bette Noir]

10. Ms. Bryant came around.

After her husband divorced her, she realized that maybe she didn't know everything about how people should run their sex lives.

[Dogtown]

13. Good to hear.

:hi:

[Grassy Knoll]

6. " I will simply not allow them to do this "

We just did asshole, and will continue to,
Thanks though.

[Drale]

7. Hope

Lets hope this is the begining of the infighting that will inevitability happen and tear the "tea party" apart

[Greyskye]

11. Welcome to DU, Drale!

:hi:

[monmouth]

8. So, we DO have allies in the media? Well, I'll be darned....n/t

[Spazito]

9. Good! The first of many racists, I hope, to go down in flames....

may he be the first of a long list to be outed for their racism.

Recommended.

[pipoman]

12. I think I may have peed my pants a little...

:rofl:

[SILVER__FOX52]

14. I always laugh at the hubris of the defeated.

[chelsea0011]

15. Ah yes! another left wing conspiracy has just brought down another one.

Man this WH is soooooooooooooo smart.I don't know how they got him to write that stuff, but it was brilliant. :sarcasm:

[BumRushDaShow]

16. And a K to the R

Next!

[underpants]

17. Is this the lead on every newscast?

No of course not. It probably is not even mentioned.

[Magleetis]

18. So long

dipshit. :hi: