Tea Party Convention in Las Vegas Cancelled

AP

The National Tea Party Unity Convention is no more.

Organizer Barbee Kinnison emailed supporters with "deep sorrow" to announce that the convention, which was to take place in Las Vegas in October, had been cancelled, the New York Times reports.

During the past week, TPMDC and blogger Raven Brooks reported that the event appeared to be canceled, since the event's website had been removed and the hotel meant to be hosting it said it was no longer taking place.

The convention was originally scheduled to take place in July, with Lou Dobbs and Andrew Breitbart among the announced speakers, before being postponed until October. (Organizers cited the Nevada summer heat for the decision.) It was meant to be a follow up to the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville in February, where Sarah Palin was the keynote speaker.

The group that was organizing the rally, Tea Party Nation, has long been viewed with suspicion by other Tea Party groups. Many grumbled at the $549 cost to attend the Nashville event, accusing the group of potential "profiteering and exploitation of the grass-roots [Tea Party] movement." The Las Vegas convention was meant to stress unity in the movement in the state where Tea Party-backed GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle is locked in a nasty and tight campaign battle with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

In her email, the Times reports, Kinnison wrote that members of the movement should remain enthusiastic.

"When November rolls around, I am begging everyone I can to vote! We are the only ones who know what the real world is like," she wrote. "Let's put this pompous and impervious collection of Congressional men and women out of work!"

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Brian Montopoli is a political reporter for CBSNews.com. You can read more of his posts here. Follow Hotsheet on Facebook and Twitter.

[tryhonesty]

The TeaBAGs with their LIES and NONsense will NOT be missed. These BOZOs have relocated back home to North Korea!

[WVVic]

Real Americans don't go to Tea Parties, they drink coffee. No American Pioneer went to Tea Parties. Coffee is as American as hot dogs and apple pie. We should send the Tea Party Loyalists of The Crown back to the Queen of England.

[IL-Independent]

And you should be shot for being a moron, since we both know you are

[Sherelyn31]

"We are the only ones who know what the real world is like," she (Organizer Barbee Kinnison) wrote. Talk about "pompous and impervious"! What a hypocrit!

[gep1955]

The $549 is better spent contributing to a Tea Party candidate to get the marxist democrats out of Washington. Search Forbes magazine and Denish D'Souza, The Roots of His Rage, great article about who Obama really is. We're only now finding out what the press should have been doing three years ago. No wonder their $$ are tanking.

[earlysaid]

The tea party people either have to be rich or retired or just ready to go all over the country for any and everything any time. That is not something that most people can do if they have a job and really do live within a budget. Tea Party people are just republicans who like to complain now that Democrats are fixing the mess republicans made of everything and that republican politicians are only concerned about corporations and what is going to be good for the profits.

[IL-Independent]

Fixing the mess? What in the hell are you talking about? What mess have they fixed?

[IL-Independent]

by lumos1 September 25, 2010 11:08 AM EDT
Of course the majority of the teahddists are senile retirees on those nasty "socialized" programs like Social Security and Medicare!
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On their worst day, they are and always will be smarter than you could ever think of being

[JV1970]

People should not take this as the end of the Tea Party movement! I assure you it is not! This is just one cancelled convention. The movement will go on!

[IL-Independent]

by lumos1 September 25, 2010 11:01 AM EDT
No, I'd be willing to bet that the white supremacist teabaggin' fools will continue their racism and hatred for months to come, and maybe even ramp-up their homophobia and Islamaphobia a few more notches too!
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I must say we are a big hypocrite aren't we? NEWS FLASH lumos1, they are not white supremacist and or racist. Stop Lying, since you like to call everyone else a liar, why don't you stop too??

[documemts]

"The movement will go on!"...over a cliff? WWOOOOOAAAAA!!!

[kansas1946]

Ohhh...I am so sorry the baggers had to cancel their party.

[darwufche]

Likely cancelled due to lack of tea bags and fear the baggers would wind up drunk, broke, and spread across the brothel beds.

[IL-Independent]

by darwufche September 24, 2010 6:24 PM EDT
Likely cancelled due to lack of tea bags and fear the baggers would wind up drunk, broke, and spread across the brothel beds.
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To bad your completely wrong and well, just not going to say much more