The Tea Party Express is confident the candidates it has supported will stand by the group, despite the growing ostracism of its controversial spokesperson, Mark Williams. The TPE has played a role in a number of high-profile conservative campaigns this year, pumping more than a million dollars into the coffers of tea party favorites across the country, ranging from Scott Brown in Massachusetts to Joe Miller in Alaska to Sharron Angle in Nevada. The group is promising to spend more, and that fact will keep conservative candidates from leaving the TPE behind, the group’s national coordinator Joe Wierzbicki told me yesterday.
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