I met Bob Weeks of Voice For Liberty in Wichita last weekend; he was in the Chicago area for the Sam Adams Alliance conference. He has a post about the Wichita Tax Day Tea party that caught my eye. Democrat Robert Tillman announced a couple of days ago that he's a candidate for Kansas' Fourth Congressional District, currently held by Republican Todd Tiahrt. But Tiahrt, who defeated a longtime Democratic incumbent in 1994, is running for the US Senate next year--Republican Sam Brownback's seat.
In my opinion--not that he'll care--Tillman is off to a bad start. He explained to Wichita Eagle that the "final straw" that pushed him to run for Congress was that Tea Party, about which he said, "Confederate flags (were) flown at the Republican tea party, and signs announced their disapproval for the amount of the stimulus package that so many other people are looking forward to for help in this Bush recession."
But in his blog, Weeks scoured through 360 photographs he took at his hometown Tea Party, and he spotted just one rebel flag.
Weeks then called candidate Tillman, who told him that he saw "at least two" stars-and-bars flying.
There were 2,000 people at the Wichita Tea Party--but two rebel flags.
Misleading.
Weeks cites an informal survey by a television reporter about the Wichita event, out of 100 attendees, 46 percent identified themselves as a Republican.
Hardly a Republican Tea Party.
For the record, I didn't see a single Confederate flag at either Chicago Tea Party.
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