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Tea party PACs reap money for midterms, but spend little on candidates
Jenny Beth Martin, president of the Tea Party Patriots, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor in suburban Maryland on March 8. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/Getty Images)
By Matea Gold, Published: April 26
When the Tea Party Patriots threw its support last month behind Matt Bevin, the underdog conservative challenger trying to unseat top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell, President Jenny Beth Martin vowed the group would be putting our money where our mouth is.
So far, its super PAC has mustered just $56,000 worth of mailers in Kentucky on Bevins behalf less than half the amount it has paid Martin in consulting fees since July.
The Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, which blew through nearly $2 million on expenses such as fundraising, polling and consultants in the first three months of this year, is not alone in its meager spending on candidates.
A Washington Post analysis found that some of the top national tea party groups engaged in this years midterm elections have put just a tiny fraction of their money directly into boosting the candidates theyve endorsed.
The practice is not unusual in the freewheeling world of big-money political groups, but it runs counter to the ethos of the tea party movement, which sprouted five years ago amid anger on the right over wasteful government spending. And it contrasts with the urgent appeals tea party groups have made to their base of small donors, many of whom repeatedly contribute after being promised that their money will help elect conservative politicians.
Out of the $37.5 million spent so far by the PACs of six major tea party organizations, less than $7 million has been devoted to directly helping candidates, according to the analysis, which was based on campaign finance data provided by the Sunlight Foundation.
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