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So, a lot of my supporters back home are members of the Tea Party.

I was Tea Party years before there was an official Tea Party.

Well, look, I'm as Tea Party as it gets.

My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.

So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

And my principles go right in line with the Tea Party.

The Tea Party movement went off on a more extreme agenda that I did not support at all, and was very frustrated by it, to the point that not only did I change parties, I decided to do something about it and run for Congress.

On the issues the Tea Party cares about, I land right in their bull's-eye.

I never went to any Tea Party meetings, although I am fiscally very much in like mind, and grateful for and appreciative of the support of anybody, no matter what group they might be part of.

I think the Tea Party has brought important issues to the table.