A sad headline, but there is reason this is happening:
Mark Meckler, the co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, has resigned from his role with the grassroots group over internal disputes about the leadership of the organization, The Daily Caller has learned.
In an email obtained by TheDC, Meckler told the state coordinators of Tea Party Patriots on Thursday night that he “fought long and hard” to maintain the group “as an organization that is run from the bottom up, with the intent of serving the grassroots.”
“Unfortunately, it is my belief that I have lost this fight,” Meckler said. “I probably fought the internal fight longer than I should have, but I wanted to give absolutely every possible effort to preserving what I believe was the unique nature of the TPP organization.”
Since the organization’s founding, Meckler has shared the role of national coordinator with co-founder Jenny Beth Martin. But Meckler wrote in the email that he had lost “influence in the leadership of the organization, and it has been that way for quite some time.”
Meckler said the board granted Martin “almost complete power over the day-to-day operations” in November 2011 after a “protracted fight in which I was complaining about the direction, operation (top-down) and finances of the organization.”
via Mark Meckler | Tea Party Patriots | Resigns | The Daily Caller.
There is a reason why this group, The Tea Party Patriots is falling apart. It is because this group became too friendly with the Republican establishment. This is not really a surprise to this writer; the “Tea Party” movement as a whole was, in this writer’s opinion, a colossal and abject failure. The reason I feel this way, is the current crop of Republican candidates running for election. I mean, where is the “Tea Party” candidate? Quite bluntly, there is none. The Tea Party’s mandate to the Republican Party was “No more business as usual!” The Republican Party proceeded to capitalize on the movement and then turned right around and did what they usually do; ignored the movement and pursued their own agenda.
Therefore, this little story is not a big surprise to me at all. Before too long I look for most of these “Tea Party” groups to fizzle out and close up shop. The Tea Party was a good idea, it just never made the impact that it should have, largely because neither of these parties was willing to listen or change their ways.