No Pye with our tea
April 14, 2009 at 2:17 pm by Andisheh Nouraee in News
JASON PYE: No tea and no sympathy for Republicans who neglected to complain about big government when Republicans were the ones growing it.
The Washington Independent’s David Weigel interviewed local Libertarian Jason Pye about mainstream Republicans piggy-backing on the Tea Party protests.
In Pye’s estimation, the participation of people like Newt Gingrich taints the tea party’s small government message:
“Bringing in someone like Gingrich takes away from the message,” said Pye, a Libertarian Party activist and writer who lives in the suburbs outside Georgia’s capital city. “It makes the people putting together the rallies look like pawns, for lack of a better term.”
Last November, we profiled Pye on our list of Atlanta’s 11 Least Influential People. He has since made us look bad for bestowing that honor upon him by showing up on lists of influential Liberatarian bloggers and writing a column for the Examiner. How un-un-influential of him.
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
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