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First They Came for the Strip Club Tea Partiers

by Josh Marshall
05.30.13 | 7:13 am

Tea Partying New York Strip club mogul says IRS also targeted him for his Tea Partying beliefs. “I was the loudest voice in the state of New York for the Tea Party movement.”

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