Tea Party Express Celebrates Successful Primary Season

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Tea Party Express Celebrates Successful Primary Season

The Tea Party Express celebrated another election victory tonight, marking the end to a very successful primary campaign season.

Below is a list of those who we’ve endorsed as ‘heroes’ or spent money.

The Tea Party Express also targeted a number of candidates who ultimately ended up losing/retiring. We launched a $250,000 “Defeat Bart Stupak” campaign and brought our Tea Party Express 3-bus convoy into his district with 6 tea party rallies in his congressional district (the most we’ve ever held in a politician’s district).

After spending $60,000 on radio and TV ads, Stupak announced his retirement, right while we were in the middle of a rally against him in Escanaba, MI (in the Upper Peninsula, and again in Stupak’s district). We announced we were targeting Arlen Specter, and produced a TV ad for Pat Toomey, and then Specter left the GOP and then lost in the Democrat Primary.

We also announced we were targeting Democrat Congressman Alan Mollohan of West Virginia, and he lost too. And most notably, beyond spending over $550,000 supporting Sharron Angle’s GOP primary campaign (launching it when she was at just 5% in the polls), we’ve also waged $500,000 campaign against Harry Reid and expect to spend at least several hundred thousand dollars more to defeat him too.

Here’s our Heroe’s list of the candidates we’ve endorsed – most of them big winners:

SENATE
AK Joe Miller (R)
NV Sharron Angle (R)
DE Christine O’Donnell (R)
MA Scott Brown (R)
KY Rand Paul (R)
UT Mike Lee (R)
CA Chuck DeVore (R)
FL Marco Rubio (R)
KS Todd Tiahrt (R)
PA Pat Toomey (R)
SC Jim DeMint (R)

House
CA-4 Tom McClintock (R)
GA-6 Tom Price (R)
ID-1 Walt Minnick (D)
IN-6 Mike Pence (R)
MN-6 Michele Bachmann (R)
SC-2 Joe Wilson (R)
TN-7 Marsha Blackburn (R)