By: Andrea Shea King
The Radio Patriot

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TEA PARTY EXPRESS IV – LIBERTY AT THE BALLOT BOX

October 18 – Nov. 1

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Tea Party Express to target Barney Frank

(CNN) – Tea Party Express says they’ll add Rep. Barney Frank to their list of lawmakers they’re targeting in November’s midterm elections.

The national Tea Party organization Tuesday announced that it will go up with ads against the 15-term Democratic congressman from Massachusetts and will hold a rally in the state near the end of their upcoming cross-country bus tour.

Tea Party Express spent around $250,000 on ads to help Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown in Massachusetts, who upset Democrat Martha Coakley in a January special election to fill the late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s seat.

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Tea Party Express political strategists Joe Wierzbicki and Sal Russo – photo by Amy Kremer

The National Review Online’s Robert Costa has an in-depth profile of Sal Russo, Tea Party Express chief political strategist. In it, Sal lays out the national tour’s political strategy:

“… group will focus on funneling resources to three U.S. Senate candidates: Joe Miller in Alaska, Sharron Angle in Nevada, and Christine O’Donnell in Delaware. “We’ll spend money in Alaska and have an advertising presence in Delaware. Sharron Angle remains our number-one race; she’s our favorite.”

While electing that trio is at the top of his agenda, Russo says that the Tea Party Express will also look to be a force in other hot races across the country. On October 18 in Reno, the group will launch “Tea Party Express IV,” a 15-day nationwide bus tour. The road trip will include rallies for Carly Fiorina in California, Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania, and Rand Paul in Kentucky.

Not every popular conservative insurgent could be included. Ken Buck, Colorado’s Republican Senate contender, is a tea-party favorite, but he was not included on the bus tour for logistical reasons. Marco Rubio, Florida’s GOP Senate nominee and one of Russo’s favorite candidates, was also left off the itinerary. “We really like Rubio and would like to be involved, but I don’t think he needs us,” Russo says. He points out that Rubio, who for months was mired in a tight three-way race, has galloped to a 25-point lead, according to Rasmussen’s latest poll.

Similar decisions have also been made with regard to finances. Linda McMahon, the self-funded Republican Senate nominee in Connecticut, will probably not see Tea Party Express dollars flow into Hartford, though the group’s bus will stop in Waterbury in early November. In New Hampshire, Kelly Ayotte, the GOP Senate nominee, will benefit from a rally in Concord, but little more.

Russo tells us that he supports Ayotte, who beat his favored candidate in the primary, but will probably not have the time or the bankroll foradvertising blitzes except in Alaska, Delaware, and Nevada. He says that his group, which is in high demand, must concentrate on where it can have the greatest impact, not simply on where it can lend a helping hand. “We can’t carry anything or elect anybody by ourselves,” he says. “Our goal is to make a difference.”

Read the entire piece.

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