Tea party hero and newly elected Senate nominee Sharron Angle (R-NV) will be a featured speaker at the Tea Party Nation’s Unity Convention in Las Vegas this summer, the group announced.
Angle was boosted in the June 8 primary above other contenders in part thanks to support from tea party groups, and Tea Party Nation asked members in an email this afternoon to donate to the Angle campaign to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV).
Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips boasted to members Angle would speak at the July 15-17 convention at a swanky new Vegas casino. “Her dedication to upholding the Constitution while serving in the Nevada State Assembly is something we need more politicians doing,” Phillips said in the email, which also boasted that, “[t]hough a lifelong Republican, Sharron was frequently at odds with her Assembly and Party colleagues, with many votes coming down ‘“62-to-Angle’ during her four term tenure in the Nevada state house.”
As we’ve been reporting, Angle is not a “lifelong Republican.” She was in the Independent American Party and was a Democrat in the early 1980s.
The Tea Party Nation, based in Nashville, is the same group that held a convention earlier this year with Sarah Palin as the headliner.
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