Tea Party convention kicks off

The World

The Tea Party movement has become catch all for anti-Obama and anti-big government ire. But organizers of the first ever Tea Party Convention are finding that not all Tea Partiers want to be under one umbrella, and they certainly don’t want to take marching orders from the Republican Party.

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