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Ron Paul 'Tea Party' Nets $6M

Posted Dec 17, 07 6:52 AM CST in Politics 

(Newser) – In an event dubbed "Boston TeaParty07," supporters of quirky GOP candidate Ron Paul rallied in the Boston snow yesterday while donations from across the nation dropped a record-breaking one-day "money bomb" of $6 million into the campaign. Most of the funds were donated over the Internet. To Paul's backers, the fundraising blitz demonstrated that he's a ''viable candidate," the Boston Globe reports.

Despite the cash haul, not all was as hoped for. The Ron Paul Blimp, originally scheduled to fly over Boston, was instead in South Carolina, and a plan to dump tea in Boston Harbor was modified to tossing banners reading "tyranny" and "no taxation without representation" into boxes in front of a picture of the harbor.

Sources Boston Globe, Washington Post

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Republican presidential hopeful, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, responds during the Des Moines Register Republican Presidential Debate in Johnston, Iowa, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2007. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)   (Associated Press)
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Supporters of Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, waves banners before the start of the Univision Republican Presidential Candidate Forum at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fla. Sunday, Dec. 9, 2007. (AP...   (Associated Press)
Supporters of Rep. Ron Paul, R.-Texas, wave banners before the start of the Univision Republican Presidential Candidate Forum at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fla. Sunday, Dec. 9, 2007. (AP...   (Associated Press)
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