Sarah Palin will rally for tea party activists in Harry Reid’s home town
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin will headline a “tea party” rally next month in Searchlight, Nev., the home town of embattled Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), tea party movement organizers said.Palin, who is delivering the keynote address at the National Tea Party Convention this weekend in Nashville, is stepping up her campaign activities for conservative activist groups this spring. The March 27 Nevada event will kick off the Tea Party Express’s 42-city bus tour, which will end April 15 with what organizers are billing as a major march on Washington. In addition to the Searchlight rally, Palin will headline a tour stop in Boston on April 14, said Mark Williams, chairman of Tea Party Express.
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By beginning the tour in Searchlight, Reid’s rural home town 60 miles from Las Vegas, the grassroots tea party movement is going straight at the heart of Reid’s scrappy up-from-the-bootstraps narrative. The move is part of a wave of conservative efforts to oust the top Senate Democrat, who is up for reelection in November.
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