February 13, 2011 07:09 PM UTC

Red-on-Red Action: "Tea Party" Targets McNulty

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• by: Colorado Pols

We talked a month ago about a meeting that occurred just before the start of this year’s legislative session between members of the Colorado Tea Party Alliance and a group of conservative legislators: officials known to have attended this meeting include freshman Reps. Libby Szabo and Chris Holbert, as well as Sens. Ted Harvey, Kevin Lundberg, and Scott Renfroe.

Here’s a photo we were forwarded from this meeting (right), where you can see Rep. Szabo, Sen. Harvey’s dome, Sen. Lundberg, Rep. Holbert speaking, Sen. Renfroe listening attentively, and Senate Minority Leader Mike Kopp also present for good measure. You’ll recall that the purpose of this meeting was to forge ahead on a “strategic partnership” between the CTPA and conservative legislators, in order to advance a “small government agenda.”

Well, folks, it looks like it was a really productive meeting.

The very same Colorado Tea Party Alliance logo you can see in the banner above the heads of the aforementioned legislators now graces the top of a new website called “Stop The Car Tax.” But what’s most interesting about this website is not the subject matter, as everybody knows the “Tea Party” hates FASTER, but the target: Republican House Speaker Frank McNulty.

Now folks, who do you suppose those “Capital [sic] insiders” are who told the Colorado Tea Party Alliance that good Speaker McNulty, their comrade in arms who helped, among others, freshman Reps. Szabo and Holbert win their seats last fall, “will kill any attempts to repeal to the Car Tax?” Was it Kevin Lundberg (speaking, right)? Perhaps it was Ted Harvey, himself hoping to ride a “Tea Party” wave to victory in the upcoming GOP chairmanship elections?

Whichever, it looks to us like the conservative Republicans in the General Assembly have finally found a way to retaliate against McNulty’s “backsliding”–fire up the “Tea Party” and turn them loose on him. It’s much more difficult to believe this all arose spontaneously, just good citizens doing their civic duty, when you’ve seen photos of the pre-game huddle.

If you were Speaker McNulty, what would you think of this?