It’s funny how things can be sitting there in plain sight but only to get a lot more attention when a candidate wins a nomination or gets pushed to the center stage of a campaign. Our reporter, Evan McMorris-Santoro, interviewed Sharron back at the Tea Party Express meeting in DC in April. And during their talk, Angle told Evan that she was a member of the far-right “Oath Keepers.”
When we did some more reporting on this yesterday, it turns out that because the “Oath Keepers” have some pretty arcane membership rules — you actually have to be serving in uniform — she may only be an “associate member” rather than a “member”. The idea behind the Oath Keepers is that you pledge that as a soldier or law enforcement officer you won’t obey any orders that conflict with the Tea Party interpretation of the Constitution, including rounding up ordinary Americans into concentration camps. But she says she’s a member and she’s actively solicited their support in her campaign.
