Most recently, Tea Party Patriots is offering an online “letter” that will be sent to President Trump on how and when he should re-open the United States economy after the Coronavirus pandemic.

Unlike a lot of petitions that just require the signer submit their email address, the Tea Party Patriots form also requests the signer’s physical address, phone number and if that signer would like future email updates. There is no direct solicitation for a donation, but that’s surely to come. What makes the Tea Party Patriots similar to other so-called conservative nonprofits is its being led by someone who portrays herself as a staunch supporter of President Trump.

The problem is that was not always the case….

How could conservative leader Jenny Beth Martin, preaching “consistency”, ever support someone like Donald Trump after what she said in front of the world in 2016?

Granted that was a unique election cycle but once the Republican nomination cycle was settled, that whole thing about rallying around out nominee should have gone into traditional effect. But too many unelected “leaders” declined to support Donald Trump, in some cases right up until Election Night, but since have declared themselves champions of the president and dictate to us when we need to ramp up that support.

Donald J. Trump has proven to be one of the most conservative presidents in our nation’s history and has withstood daily political and media attacks that would have sent many of these unelected leaders to a doctor’s office for stress reduction medication before curling up in a fetal position.

To date, few if any of our unelected leaders have issued a very public apology for the electoral damage they did to candidate Trump in 2016. Hillary Clinton and her supporters continue to ignorantly assert she really won the election because she won the popular vote by 2,868,686 votes. Imagine how many more votes Donald Trump might have earned had sore-loser, Cruzers sincerely rallied around the nominee instead of continuing to pummel him after the Republican convention formalities just because he didn’t meet their lofty definition of who is a conservative.

More frustrating are those so-called conservatives who did everything they could to derail Donald Trump’s campaign and were later absorbed into the administration.

The irony of the Tea Party Patriots “letter” to President Trump is who they claim to represent.

We, the undersigned, are job creators and job seekers. We are employers and employees. We are parents and grandparents concerned about the economic impact of this shutdown. We are struggling small business owners; managers who have recently laid off valuable staff or are fearful we may have to lay off our employees. We are innovators and inventors. Above all, we are Americans. And we know America can, and will, survive this economic interruption, with your guidance and leadership.
— Tea Party Patriots letter to President Trump

Tea Party Patriots is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit.

Nonprofits seldom “create” anything physical to sell like “job creators”. All they appear to do is utilize one tool God gave them: the mouth. As of their latest available IRS filing, the only “employees” they have are a select few and when you look at how much they bring in from donations from hard-working Americans and retirees, how much they pay themselves compared to the bang-for-the-buck, eyebrows should appropriately be raised.

If Jenny Beth Martin wants to borrow the “trust but verify” line from President Ronald Reagan, let’s go there.

Nonprofits need to raise money. We get that.

Opportunism is NOT a “conservative” trait and when unelected leaders speak for us and demand our loyalty via donor dollars, they should be consistent when it comes to loyalty.

Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots became a staunch supporter of President Trump despite the disunity she and others fostered through most of 2015 and 2016. She and others still have yet to acknowledge the error of their actions during that historic process, still have the nerve to tell all of us when and how to ramp up support for the president and it always appears to come back to being all about them.

President Trump doesn’t need to have a stack of letters delivered to the White House for a photo op and we all know that’s where this is going. One thing that appears to be consistent is Jenny Beth Martin’s Tea Party Patriots having a well-documented history of NOT putting donor money where their mouths are.

When the Tea Party Patriots threw its support last month behind Matt Bevin, the underdog conservative challenger trying to unseat top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell, President Jenny Beth Martin vowed the group would be “putting our money where our mouth is.”

So far, its super PAC has mustered just $56,000 worth of mailers in Kentucky on Bevin’s behalf — less than half the amount it has paid Martin in consulting fees since July.
— Washington Post, 4/26/14

Nonprofit exploitation of current events will happen, whether we’re talking the Tea Party Patriots, MoveOn.org or the Red Cross. The difference is most nonprofits don’t attempt to take credit for things they vehemently opposed, and later fundraise off it. It could be argued that the Tea Party Movement would have evolved to be an even more potent force as it was originally a collection of Republicans, Democrats and independents who were “taxed enough already”. When the liberal media labeled the Tea Party as “conservative” which was certified after opportunists co-opted that coalition of fed up Americans for their own self interests, conservatives became involuntarily linked with the words and actions of those opportunists.

The United States will recover from this recent challenge. We always do, despite the roadblocks erected by friend and foe.

American Enterprise Institute
Cato Institute
Citizens in Charge Foundation
Club for Growth
CNS News
Commentary Magazine
Conservative Review‎
Correll Law Firm
Courageous Conservatives PAC
Daniel Pipes: Middle East Forum
Delegates Unbound
First Things
Free the Delegates
Jordan Winery
Levin TV
Media Research Center
National Affairs
National Review
New Republic
NewsBusters
#NeverTrump Conservatives
#NeverTrump “closed” groups on Facebook
Never Means Never PAC
Our Principles PAC
RedState
Regina Thomson’s Knee Surgery
Southern Baptist Convention
Tea Party Patriots
The Blaze
The Federalist
The Weekly Standard
Townhall

Unelected “conservative leaders” told us, in no uncertain terms, who THEY decided was worthy of Republican support… who was not and why.

The list of intellectually-superior, arrogant conservatives is long.

#NeverTrump “conservatives”
Mitt Romney, Ted Cruz, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Megyn Kelly, Reince Priebus, Speaker Paul Ryan, Mark Helprin, Steven F. Hayward, Dana Loesch, L. Brent Bozell, William Kristol, Ron Kaufman, Jenny Beth Martin, Charles Krauthammer, Katie Pavlich, Cal Thomas, Mark Cuban, Thomas Sowell, Edwin Meese III, Russell Moore, Sen. Mark Kirk, Sen. John Barrasso, Thomas Sowell, Jeb!, David French, David Limbaugh, Sen. Ron Johnson, Sen. Mitch McConnell, David Boaz, Mona Charen, Ben Domenech, Ken Cuccinelli, Erick Erickson, Yuval Levin, Sheri Jacobus, George Will, Andrew C. McCarthy, David McIntosh, Michael Medved, Michael B. Mukasey, John Podhoretz, R. R. Reno, Ben Sasse….

6/25/16 — The #NeverTrump forces are proceeding full speed ahead with their scorched-earth attempt to unbind the delegates Donald Trump earned by winning the Republican primary process with historic popular vote numbers.

Hillary supporters are clearly afraid of Donald Trump while ego-driven, so-called “conservatives” have gotten with the Democrats’ program.

Appeal to GOP delegates: Please save your party from Trump — you still can
What Republican leadership failed to understand was that this voting bloc wasn’t stupid enough to not notice that the GOP was selling them a bill of goods it had no plan to actually deliver. The Supreme Court, Executive Branch and Democratic Party were never going to allow the United States to roll backwards into the outright legal bigotry of the early 1900s. While Republican voters thought they were electing James Dobson, the GOP was really selling Joel Osteen to them in a Pat Robertson mask.
— Salon, 6/25/16

These same anti-Trump delegates were perfectly happy with popular votes when it came to them getting elected, and should they succeed in stealing the bound delegates from Trump in Cleveland, these so-called (ex)”principled conservatives” will demand voters “unite” behind the candidate they select and then threaten to blame Trump supporters if Hillary becomes the next president because they sat out the election (as hypocritical pro-Cruz “conservatives” threatened).

If any such delegate notifies the secretary of his or her intent to cast a vote of conscience, whether personal or religious, each such delegate shall be unbound and unconstrained by these rules on any given vote, including the first ballot for the selection of the president of the United States, without the risk of challenge, sanction or retribution by the Republican National Committee.
— Colorado delegate Kendal Unruh letter to RNC Rules Committee

Here’s the hypocritical “Free the Delegates” ad called “Keep Your Word“.

After the Republican National Convention, Trump destroyed his credibility and cannot win the Presidency. It’s time Trump lives up to his word, resign the nomination, and allow the RNC to replace him under Rule 9 of National Party Rules.

Like the ad? Help keep this ad running: http://freethedelegates.com/contribute

DISCLAIMER: Free the Delegates is a Super PAC dedicated to defeating Hillary by blocking and reversing Donald Trump’s political ascent. Our focus is on using unconventional and cost-effective tactics, as opposed to stereotypical high-cost, limited-yield methods with the objective of providing maximum donor value.

PAID FOR BY FREE THE DELEGATES.
NOT AUTHORIZED BY ANY CANDIDATE OR CANDIDATE’S COMMITTEE.

Hypocritical because these misguided “conservatives” demand Donald Trump keep his word while looking the other way when their messiah Ted Cruz broke his.

8/30/16 UPDATE

Sean Hannity puts the #NeverTrumpers on notice.

First of all, you know my disdain for the Tea Party Patriots, thus receiving this message showed the sender had not done her homework and was clearly mining “black conservatives” for some future political exploitation. I say “exploitation” because we’ve all heard blacks call in on a conservative talk radio program, told how “brave” he or she is, given a generous amount of air time, and while it’s supposed to come off as inclusive, let’s call it what it is: exploitation.

The Black & Right website was created as a forum to rebut that public perception that all Republicans are (and have always been) racists, and was just my way of sharing personal views on topics where I could also go places white Republicans publicly cannot.

Simple.

It was never about portraying myself as a victim needing bleeding heart conservatives to acknowledge, feel my pain, and/or come to my rescue.

In September of 2005, I wrote about the looting in New Orleans post-Katrina; was contacted (via a so-called black conservative group) by CNN, commented on-air about my sentiments, and subsequently received around 200 emails an hour for the next three days, which was a big deal pre-Facebook and Twitter. Most of the emails were laden with racial epithets which I shared on follow-up posts. If you read my responses, I was not lamenting being picked on by total strangers, but basically used their words to illustrate the lie that liberals are generally tolerant and inclusive.

It really wasn’t until late in 2009 where black Republicans were officially “discovered” and deemed in need of some kind of endangered species status.

Glenn Beck was more ahead of his time than I realized in 2009 when he aired his first program to prove the existence of black conservatives.
— Lisa Fritsch, Project 21

I was really out of the loop as I didn’t think we needed anyone to prove our existence….

A little more than a year ago, I was approached by a prominent black conservative and invited to “like” the Black Conservatives Fund Facebook page and help raise money for black candidates. I promptly declined because of the sheer hypocrisy in the creation of a so-called conservative group based solely on race.

White conservatives have nothing to prove when it comes to the political accusations of racism, liberals are shown to be racists almost everyday, whether we’re talking about the targets of abortion, the inaction when it comes to deadly crime in their jurisdictions, their hiring practices, etc. But for some reason, bleeding heart white conservatives still feel this need to prove to themselves they’re not what they’re called.

For example, whenever a black person speaks out in favor of a Republican or a conservative policy, they will get viciously called out by the left and embraced by the right. If that person is at all media savvy (and is prepared to take the initial stabs from the long, liberal knives), it can be quite the lucrative career move.

We have a prominent talk radio host praising black conservatives, almost always mentioning one by name, but on the very website of which he’s the Editor-in-Chief, she gets a “D” on her voting record and has been previously called out for sucking up to the now-outgoing Speaker.

I used to be a national spokesperson for a semi-well known group of black conservatives. It wasn’t until I moved to the D.C. area did I know that non-profit was staffed almost entirely by whites and that the “exposure” blacks received for the media appearances arranged was considered “payment”. After losing my job, we approached this group to do video work and after my eleven years of working with them for free, the response was a very drawn-out “no”.

I am not stupid and when I worked for a non-profit in Virginia, I knew I (and the few blacks that worked there) was being showcased for the trustees and donors. I was originally hired to bring Black & Right to a bigger audience; a suggestion I carefully blew off because I believed the company’s mission was bigger than that and instead created the successful (and colorblind) MRCTV. While I know how hard I worked and what I tried to bring to my job, I will always be humbled by being awarded Employee of the Year in 2011. However, I was always made to feel very uncomfortable having my name mentioned at the end of their annual gala because my contributions to the actual program were relatively minor and the majority of my work began within hours after the show where I’d prepare the post-production video files for the company’s writers the next day.

It was clear my name, as well as the names of the few blacks who worked there were being mentioned for one reason and one reason only and I can only imagine how the roughly 60-plus other employees who also worked hard must have felt.

Laura and I, literally, ran into that earlier mentioned talk radio host at CPAC and requested to meet with him about producing video rants. If you knew who we’re talking about about, you’d know that his doing video is a no-brainer. Laura and I also met up with another popular radio host at an award ceremony in D.C. where he was the recipient. We gave him the same pitch to do video rants, he seemed quite interested, and gave him one of our last business cards. Neither of these gentlemen bothered to contact us to say “no” and it’s their loss, but in no way were we seeking an in based on minority status alone.

I was a approached by a conservative who suggested I make a video asking for donations that would be shared in that person’s circles. I was to emphasize my being a “black conservative”. I did create the video, but as Laura and I was not in agreement with using my race and political leanings, I made it more about Laura and my history and where we want to go, business-wise.

The video tanked (results wise), and I’m kinda glad it did because exploiting myself as a “black conservative” is not who I am or ever was.

As many of you know, B&R was (and still is) a passion and was originally hosted by Men’s News Daily, later the Canada Free Press, and now Laura and I. Up until last year, it was an expense we could afford. As we never initiated the site for self-enrichment, we never made B&R or B&B Media a non-profit, thus making donation write-offs an enticement. Creating a site with donations primarily in mind is for top heavy nonprofits.

Black conservatism is not about finding the new “it” that can (and will) be exploited.

So, yes, I have a bug up my ass when it comes to the use of the labels “African-American” and “black conservative”. In the Navy, I visited Mombasa, Kenya for six days. Otherwise, I’m a native Bostonian. I am also a born-again conservative.

It’s not a badge of honor and I don’t hand out tissues.

If so, you’re not alone.

I just got another email from Jenny Beth asking if we have any more funds in the budget that can be directed toward grassroots activities in our targeted states.

And honestly, I’m pretty stressed out… because the answer is NO.

By the way, who elected Jenny Beth Martin leader or “chairwoman” of anything? Just askin’….

You see, right now, we’re still $27,986 away from our weekly fundraising goal.

And if I can’t raise those funds in the next few hours, we’re going to have to start cutting back our grassroots efforts in key states like Iowa, North Carolina, and New Hampshire.

So I’m asking you to help. Right now. We only have a few hours left to hit this goal, so it’s absolutely imperative that you make an emergency contribution of $5, $10, $25, or whatever you possibly can.

Well, if you were to check out the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund on OpenSecrets, you might walk away scratching your head as to why they would “have to start cutting back our grassroots efforts”.

The Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund so far this year has raised $11,791,142. But it appears they’ve only spent $1,254,319 on candidates.

“At the behest of a wealthy donor, Mrs. Martin undertook a personal makeover, losing 70 pounds, changing her hairstyle and overhauling her wardrobe.”

They’re sending out what appears to be rather desperate email calls for money which begs to ask where the $10,536,823 went?

Hopefully someone who’s been to an event sponsored by the Tea Party Patriots can share stories when the TPPs came in and bought refreshments and/or meals, provided transportation and lodging, offered national media exposure and paid speaking engagements to the Tea Party volunteers as often as is provided for the Patriots’ hierarchy.

Ann Coulter and TV host Sean Hannity clashed on Wednesday over the tactics being used by some Tea Party lawmakers in Washington. While Hannity commended lawmakers for taking a stand for their principles, Coulter suggested the movement is being hijacked by “con men” who are “tricking Americans to send them money.”

Tea Party Patriots claim to be representing the Tea Party but to date has given almost no financial assistance to the campaigns of conservatives Matt Bevin, Joe Carr, Tim Scott, Steve King, Dave Brat, Louis Gohmert, and Joni Ernst among others.

To be fair, I also criticized Rep. Michelle Bachmann as one of the creators of the “Tea Party Caucus” on Capitol Hill which she also used as a personal launching pad for her failed presidential run. Many have been using the Tea Party for their own personal gain…

JennyBeth Martin, the Tea Party Patriots’ chairwoman, oversees all its expenditures, meaning she sets her own $15,000 monthly fee for strategic consulting — payments that have totaled $120,000 since July. She also draws a salary as president of the Tea Party Patriots’ nonprofit arm — getting more than $272,000 in the 2012 fiscal year, according to the group’s most recent tax filing.

Her twin salaries put her on track to make more than $450,000 this year, a dramatic change in lifestyle for the tea party activist, who had filed for bankruptcy in 2008 and then cleaned homes for a period of time to bring in extra money.

But again, based on Tea Party Patriots’ panic-laden email appears, they’re running low on cash.

The major parties use terms like “unwinnable” when deciding who to support, regardless of how popular a candidate is with the people. In fact, the Republican Party in particular seems determined to put contributions gathered towards politicians who needed to move on years ago. Tea Party Patriots should be assisting every citizen who sticks his or her neck out to represent a movement that’s been assaulted by the left from Day One, and not act like the establishment party in picking winners and losers.

The Tea Party was (at the time) a beautiful, non-partisan gathering on Capitol Hill to protest the promised “transformation of America” by liberals led by Barack Obama, and for that they were labeled “conservative” and smeared by the media. NONE of those groups and/or entities that have “Tea Party” on their names created it but are unapologetic and bilking millions from retirees, veterans, and concerned Americans for every cent they can get out of them so a few can live a quite comfortable existence.

Hundreds of thousands gathered on “9/12”, as well as those who saw all the people and the potential for dollars they represented.

Fortunately, not all groups that have incorporated “Tea Party” into their names appear to be organizationally top heavy, with those at the top (literally) getting quite heavy.

Like many staunch two-faced representatives of “conthervative printhipleth”, Jenny Beth Martin was very publicly against presidential candidate Donald Trump, until it was financially beneficial for her to be in support of President Donald Trump.