Larry Pratt of Virginia is a member of two different national Tea Party networks: Tea Party Nation and 1776 Tea Party. He is also executive director of Gun Owners of America, which bills itself as a "no compromise" organization opposed to all forms of gun control.
Karen Pack is the leader of the Tea Party Patriots local group, the Wood County Tea Party. She is also listed as a member of Tea Party Patriot and the 1776 Tea Party factions.
A 30-year old resident of of Winnsboro, Texas, Pack describes herself as "a Christian, a Tea Party Member, a Constitutionalist and a Patriot." Missing from that description, however, is Karen Pack's history with the Ku Klux Klan.
Peter Gemma, a resident of a Sarasota, Florida, is a Tea Partier signed up to the ResistNet Tea Party faction. Gemma is also a professional white nationalist. He served as head of Design, Marketing, and Advertising for the white nationalist Council of Conservative Citizens newsletter, the Citizens Informer.
Mauldin, South Carolina resident Roan Garcia-Quintana is involved in several local Tea Party groups and is registered as member on the ResistNet Tea Party faction website. [1] The Cuba-born activist who runs a group called the Americans Have Had Enough Coalition served as “advisor and media spokesman” for the 2010 Tax Day Tea Party rally in Greenville, South Carolina. [2]
In addition to his Tea Party activities, Garcia-Quintana recently joined the National Board of Directors of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC), the largest white nationalist group in the country.
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