Faux Tea Party Hopes to Split Conservative Vote in Nevada

The Las Vegas Sun is reporting that the Tea Party of Nevada has qualified as a third party in Nevada and will field its own candidate in the Senate race for the seat currently held by Senator Harry Reid, the Majority Leader.

The Nevada News Bureau has done a little research on this new party:

I cannot find any evidence that any of these principals have ever been involved in any Tea Party activities, until now. I’ve emailed a number of Tea Party organizer-activists in the state and so far, nobody has ever heard of any of the principals – except for Barry Levinson because he is a Las Vegas attorney.

Here are some snippets from my research so far:

Barry Levinson was part of the “Bush Lied, People Died” cabal (very strange creds for a Tea Party guy).

Not really core to the story but one of the principals, Larry Lathum, appears to be a 9/11 Truther. A number of sane Tea Partiers emailed me to say they are concerned about credibility and perceptions and are not happy to see Levinson’s and Lathum’s names on that principals list.

The hope of Democracy lies in an informed electorate. So, why is deceit the Democrats’ primary tool for staying in office?

H/T Doug Ross

Our source link is here: http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/2010/02/faux-tea-party-hopes-to-split.html

Also the LA Times has this story: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/02/harry-reid-tea-party-nevada-senate.html