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Washington D.C. - The nation’s largest Tea Party group announced today the creation of its new advocacy arm — the first of its kind. With over 600,000 members and over 1.3 million supporters on Facebook, TheTeaParty.Net has been a leading opponent of any legislation that increases taxes or raises the debt, including this week’s deal on the fiscal cliff.

“For years business and interest groups have had lobbyists pushing their agendas in Washington. They advocated big government, big spending, and big deficits. The voice of the taxpayer and those who believe in limited government has been crowded out. With the creation of a national advocacy team, we aim to change that,” said Todd Cefaratti, founder of TheTeaParty.Net. TheTeaParty.Net has been a leading opponent of any legislation that increases taxes or raises the debt, including Speaker Boehner’s “Plan B” and this week’s fiscal cliff compromise. “The total failure to make any progress on reducing the nation’s deficit and debts with the ‘fiscal cliff’ tax-and-spend legislation demonstrate what happens in the absence of a strong voices pushing for smaller government. If our elected representatives won’t heed our concerns, then we will help find new leaders who will.”

The national advocacy team is made up of:

*    J.D. Hayworth, National Advisor, TheTeaParty.net. Congressman J.D. Hayworth served six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he represented Arizona’s 5th and 6th districts.  He challenged Senator John McCain in the 2010 GOP primary. Hayworth remains involved in conservative politics in Arizona.

*    Niger Innis, National Outreach Director, TheTeaParty.net. A longtime conservative activist, Niger Innis is also the National Spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), one of the ‘Big Four’ civil rights groups in the United States. He is a frequent guest commentator for CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC providing insight and analysis on the day’s news events.

*    Bob Adams, Capitol Hill Representative, TheTeaParty.net. Over the course of nearly two decades, Adams has served as a senior media consultant or campaign advisor to many conservative groups and candidates, including U.S. Senate candidate John Raese in 2012. He is also the founder of Revive America PAC, and the former executive director of the  League of American Voters. Bob Adams began his career in conservative politics at the height of the ‘Republican Revolution” of 1994 as a press assistant to Congressman J.C. Watts, Jr.

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TheTeaParty.net is a national non-profit 501(c)(4) organization created in 2009 for the education and advancement of the constitutional conservative values of the Tea Party movement.

http://www.theteaparty.net/tea-party-establishes-congressional-advocacy-team/