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--10/4/10

Sherrod Brown

Describing the "faux populism" of the Tea Party movement, in USA Today:

"The Tea Party vision of 21st century America would gut Medicare and Social Security, ignore the minimum wage and scale back consumer protections and regulations that keep Wall Street honest and our food supply safe ... Tea Party populism is driven by anger at our government and at our country. Real populism fights for all Americans, while Tea Party populism divides us."

--10/4/10

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Sources: Washington Post; BBC; AP (2); Der Spiegel; Guardian; WhiteHouse.gov