[original post 10/29/2010]
Tea Party groups in New Jersey are outraged over ads that have mysteriously surfaced in support of a supposed Tea Party candidate. The sponsored ads on Google are being served up all over the web, in places like BlogTalkRadio, in support of one Peter DeStefano, and direct viewers to the website of njteapartycoalition.org.
The problem is, the NJ Tea Party Coalition, the owners of that website, did not purchase any such ads.
“I find this ad extremely troubling,” Brian Baldwin of the NJ Tea Party Coalition told local press. “We did not authorize this nor are we supporting Mr. DeStefano.”
What’s worse is that the group – and every Tea Party group in NJ that I’ve communicated with – has been denouncing DeStefano as a “fake” Tea Party candidate for months now. They’ve all been complaining about this to the appropriate authorities for some time now. After seeing these latest ads, Tea Party leaders in NJ are urging their members and other like-minded leaders to contact the local election officials and the Secretary of States’ office to look into DeStefano’s candidacy.
After hounding the press about their suspicions, some in the media had taken notice of the Tea Party’s claims in NJ. And they agreed.
Filed under: Congress, Legal, News, Tea Party Tagged: Camden County Democratic Committee, DCCC, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Party, election, fraud, Geoff Mackler, google, John Adler, New Jersey, NJ Tea Party Coalition, Peter DeStefano, South Jersey Young Democrats, Steve Ayscue, Tea Party
