Originally Published at POLITICO.com

Lost in the MSM coverage of the recent Mark Williams/TEA Party Express racial flap is this fundamental point: The TEA Party Express, and hence Mark Williams, is not really an authentic grassroots TEA Party organization. As I have discussed many times - and as has been written on POLITICO TEA Party Express is funded, founded and organized by a PAC out of Sacramento which acts as a fundraising arm for the Republican Party.

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