Tea Partiers Swap Nasty E-Mails in Nev. Senate Race

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http://www.aolnews.com/politics/article/tea-partiers-swap-nasty-e-mails-in-nevada-republican-senate-primary/19507058

LAS VEGAS (June 7) -- A long-brewing feud between tea party factions over Tuesday's Nevada Republican primary election has boiled over into bitter e-mail exchanges in which activists are lambasting one another as "turncoats" and "representative of a liberal mentality."

The dispute pits representatives of the Tea Party Express, the national group that has endorsed Sharron Angle to be Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid's fall opponent, against Nevada activists who resent outside groups trying to influence an election in which several of the leading candidates have laid claim to tea party bona fides.

The Tea Party Express endorsement in mid-April moved Angle in the polls from a distant third at 5 percent to front-runner with 32 percent, as of the latest Las Vegas Review-Journal poll, taken last week. That poll showed her competitors, Danny Tarkanian and Sue Lowden, virtually tied but behind her by a large margin.

The Tea Party Express, via its Our Country Pac, also infused hundreds of thousands of dollars into Angle's coffers and ran a two-hour fundraiser infomercial in prime time on the state's most popular AM radio station on Thursday.

By Monday, Tarkanian supporter Barbee Kinnison of Las Vegas had had enough. She circulated via e-mail a copy of a blog post written by Judson Phillips, the chairman of the Tea Party Nation, a national rival to the Tea Party Express, with the headline: "Not ALL Tea Partiers Support Sharron Angle." In it, Phillips pointedly noted the Tea Party Express' insistence that Angle was the sole true conservative in the race: "We can no longer stand aside and let misinformation about the Nevada race go uncontested."

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Should be called, 'When Republicans Eat Their Own'

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