When did we elect National Leaders of the Tea Party Movement?

I just posted this message on the 912Project Forum in the take action section. It is, I believe, a vitally important issue. I just want to know one thing. Who appointed, elected or choose the people who are the National Tea Party Leaders.

National Tea Party Leadership Team Accepts President Obama's Invitation,

This is the headline at the Parkbench website from an e-mail they sent me. Since when does the Tea Party Movement have National Leadership? Supposedly, President Obama invited Tea Party Leaders to Washington to meet with him when he spoke at the Arnold, MO town hall were he said

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"So, you know, when you see — those of you who are watching certain news channels on which I'm not very popular and you see folks waving tea bags around, let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term, how we're going to stabilize Social Security." "But let's not play games and pretend that the reason is because of the [$787 billion stimulus bill], because that's just a fraction of the overall problem that we've got."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...arty-movement/

This was posted at: http://www.parcbench.com/article_det...00&topic=front

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NATIONWIDE TEA PARTY LEADERS ACCEPT INVITATION TO MEET WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA CONTACTS: Michael Patrick Leahy (615) 243-6869 Kellen Giuda (786) 525-6984 James Dickey (469)767-7728 New York, New York – April 29th, 2009 - The National Leadership Team of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition (http://www.nationwideteapartycoalition.com) today accepted President Obama`s invitation "to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term, how we are going to stabilize Social Security.” The invitation was extended by the President at a Town Hall Meeting held in Arnold, Missouri today (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21870.html). The National Leadership Team of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition includes 25 of the more than 900 local organizers of the April 15, 2009 Tax Day Tea Parties held across the country, which were attended by more than 1 million Americans. Members of the National Leadership Team includes Judson Phillips, organizer of the Nashville Tea Party attended by 10,000, James Dickey, organizer of the Dallas Tea Party, attended by 5,000, and JoAnn Abbot, organizer of the Washington, DC Tea Party attended by more than 3,000. The full list of the 25 members of the National Leadership Team of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition can be found at http://www.nationwideteapartycoalition.com/about.php

I didn't vote for these people and they don't speak for me. We need to take action before some of Obama's moles take over our movement.

Their website reads more like an environmentalist site tha a tea party site.

this is their logo:Didn't know we had a Tea Party Movement Ecosystem.