The Only Maine Tea Party Contributions are to Prop Up Republican Project

A search of Federal Elections Commission and Maine Campaign Finance data from January 1, 2000 to August 15, 2010 for the general term “Tea Party” and these particular Maine Tea Party groups…

6th District
912 Project of Downeast Maine
Aroostook County Questions To Our Representatives
Aroostook Tea Party Patriots
Charleston Tea Party
Cumberland County Tea Party
Maine Patriots
Maine ReFounders
Paint Maine Red
Piscataquis Tea Party
Portland Tea Party
Tea Party – 912 project Greater Bangor
Tea Party Maine
Tea Party Patriots of the Sunrise County

… reveals that the only campaign contributions coming from any Tea Party group in the entire state of Maine are two contributions made by passing the hat in two different cities at Tea Party events three months apart in 2009.

Those contributions were dedicated to The Republican Project, a political committee that describes its primary goal: to “Support Republican Party and associated issues and candidates”.