‘Tea party’ group behind defeat of GOP Senate incumbent in Alaska
Sep 2nd, 2010 by Atlanta House Painter
The Tea Party Express' success has come the old-fashioned way: It spent $600,000 on an advertising blitz that salvaged the campaign of Joe Miller and blindsided Sen. Lisa Murkowski. The defeat of incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska's Republican primary is another notch in the belt for the Sacramento-based Tea Party Express, a project of Republican consultant Sal Russo.
