"Join the Tea Party" exposed

The Tea Party Patriots are warning that an organization has set up shop claiming to be Tea Partiers but are primarily organized for their own financial benefit. KPHO did an investigation:

A tea party organization based in Mesa, Ariz., which has collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, spent nearly half of its budget on marketing its own name, according to Federal Elections Commission documents.

Those records, obtained during a CBS 5 News investigation, also show the organization spent no money to directly support tea party candidates.

The website, JoinTheTeaParty.us is registered to a nonprofit corporation in Mesa. When CBS 5 News reporters contacted the director of that company, they were referred to a Washington, D.C., attorney, who said the personnel in Phoenix were too busy to sit down for an interview.

  Meanwhile the Tea Party Express is trying to help out in Wisconsin, where the fight for a Supreme Court judgeship may determine the fate of the law just passed there. They are in the fight of their lives. Money is pouring in from around the country to barrage voters and influence the judge's race and the recall campaign underway. Donations here at Tea Party Express.
  These are extremely significant races, yet Republicans (aka the stupid party, as Instapundit points out) haven't identified it as such. They're besieged in Wisconsin yet Republicans are nowhere to be found.
  It's time for the people to step up again.
  Real Clear Politics:

The only Republican strategy -- and money -- machine that really seems to understand the potential effect is the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) headed by Ed Gillespie, former national GOP chairman. The RSLC is so worried that it is making an unusual mid-cycle investment of money that it could have used in 2012.

Unions and the left are far outspending pro-business interests and the right on recall ads.