On AlterNet: tim phillips

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The End of the Herman Cain Campaign? (It's Not What You Think)

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. October 31, 2011.

Sexual harassment allegations aren't the only thing troubling Cain's campaign--there's also the dirty politics of his campaign manager, Mark Block.

Debt Ceiling Vote: Tea Party Gives Speaker Boehner Something to Cry About

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. July 29, 2011.

Even if John Boehner wins a vote on the debt ceiling, Tea Party-allied members of Congress may end his tenure as House speaker.

Wall Street Journal Honcho Shills for Secret Worker 'Education' Program Linked to Koch Group

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet/The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. June 3, 2011.

During the 2010 election campaign, WSJ editorial board member Stephen Moore carried the Koch agenda to Wisconsin workers -- in workplace seminars called by their bosses.

5 Professional Tea Partiers: Who's Sucking the Most Money From the Movement?

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. May 12, 2011.

These five Tea Party leaders are nicely compensated for leading the allegedly leaderless movement.

Tea Party Jesus: Koch's Americans For Prosperity Sidles Up to Religious Right for 2012 Campaign

Peter Montgomery, AlterNet. April 15, 2011.

David Koch's key operative, Tim Phillips, is moving to merge the religious right with the Tea Party movement -- just in time for the presidential race.

Goon-Squad Politics: How the Wisc. GOP Trampled Democracy to Appease Wealthy Backers

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. March 9, 2011.

When Wisconsin's G.O.P. senators couldn't get what they wanted in an open process, they resorted to goon-squad democracy. You got a problem wi' dat?

Tea Party Inc.: The Big Money and Powerful Elites Behind the Right Wing's Latest Uprising

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet/The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. October 24, 2010.

The Tea Parties are billed as a people's movement. But they wouldn't exist without the help of deep-pocketed billionaires.

FBI Uses Astroturf Group for Cover to Snag Man Who Threatened Senator's Life

Lindsay Beyerstein, AlterNet. April 6, 2010.

If you wanted to lure a violent anti-health-care nut to a undercover interview, who would you pose as? Looks like the astroturf Americans For Prosperity fit the FBI's bill.

Right Wingers Marching in DC Is Big News -- But the Same Old Faces Are Pulling the Strings

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. September 14, 2009.

The men behind the religious right make a comeback with the Tea Party movement.

Utilizing Public Airwaves, Media Mogul Murdoch Is Big Muscle Behind Fraudulent Astro Turfers

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. August 20, 2009.

Burrowing inside the radical right's gathering of astroturfers and mouthpieces, AlterNet Reporter Adele Stan discovers what makes the anti-health reform machine tick.