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An eight - month legal saga involving Western New York Tea Party activist Rus Thompson appears to have been resolved relatively painlessly Thursday morning.
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Western New York Tea Party activist Rus Thompson was arraigned on voter fraud charges in State Supreme Court Thursday.
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New York's 22nd District Tea party activists — and some Democrats — spent the last month or so talking up state Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney, a primary challenger to Republican Rep. Richard Hanna.
Among those raising similar concerns are O'Brien Murray, a prominent GOP consultant in New York City, and Gary Perry, a member of the Tioga County Republican Committee with ties to Tea Party activists.
Fundraising efforts are just beginning, but tea party activists have already inspired serious challenges to establishment GOP Senate candidates Carly Fiorina in California and Charlie Crist in Florida; a similar insurgency in last month's House race in New York splintered local Republicans, leading to a Democratic victory.
During a 2009 contest in upstate New York, tea party activists revolted against the national party for trying to foist an establishment candidate on them.
They're planning to help Paladino, who has been strongly identified with the conservative - activist Tea Party movement, to launch a New York Tea Party, much as billionaire Rochester political gadfly Tom Golisano's gubernatorial campaign launched the Independence Party in 1994.