Tea Party Express Works To Unseat Stupak

<p><a href="mailto:payettepc@interlochen.org"><em>By Peter Payette</em> </a></p> <p>The Tea Party Express says it will spend $250,000 to help unseat Congressman Bart Stupak.The group has scheduled four rallies in Michigan's First Congressional District this week from Escanaba to Petoskey.</p> <p>The Tea Party Express is funded by a Political Action Committee called Our Country Deserves Better, which pretty much sums up how the group feels about Bart Stupak and other Democrats who voted for the healthcare bill. A spokesman says they'll run television and radio ads to encourage voters to find someone else to represent them in Washington but he says there are no plans to endorse a specific challenger.</p> <p>$250,000 dollars would be a fair amount of cash for a political campaign in Stupak's district. It's more money than his Republican challenger raised in 2008, but Stupak raised five times that much that year, and won an easy victory.</p> <p>Still the Tea Party hopes he is weakened by the all the controversy and they say they're "encouraged" by news that he hasn't ruled out retirement.</p>