Bring In the Lawyers

Posted by David Kurtz on 19 Jan 2010 under Politics & Opinions

Tea party activists in Florida file lawsuit against other tea party activists over who has the right to use the name "Tea Party."

Gotta love this quote that one of the plaintiffs gave TPMmuckraker:

We have a very successful movement, similar to the Civil Rights movement, or women's suffrage. And we have a political entity that's trying to take advantage of that. They're trying to take that success and momentum and hijack it for their own political and/or personal needs.

As Arlo Guthrie would say, "Friends, they may thinks it's a movement."

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