Two tea partiers have sued the founders of the Tea Party Patriots for defamation, alleging that they posted false information about one being a child molester and the other being a victim of rape and child molestation, under the Facebook alias “Dale Buttersworth.”James Lyle and Kylie Kremer allege that Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin and her husband, TPP’s CEO Lee Martin, defamed them on “a public group in Facebook,” and that the “Internet Protocol Address, cell phone and email addresses on file with Facebook for the user, screen-name of alias ‘Dale Buttersworth’ belong to both Jenny Beth Martin and Lee Martin.”
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