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If you read the complaint there are distinctions made about the people in the wisconsin club for growth and other groups trying to make distinctions and parse language about saying we didn t endorse walker. we didn t say anything about walker. we didn t say vote for walker. but the other person, barrett, is an awful person. he hasn t been indicted or convicted. let s watch the case. this isn t good news for the party. thank you, matea and michael. up next, marion barry, former mayor of washington, d.c. says white people have been trying to take the city back from african-american leadership for years. mayor barry will be here to talk to me. this will be one of the most fascinating conversations you will hear. this is hardball, the place for politics. and that s epic, bro, we ve forgotten just how good good is. good is setting a personal best before going for a world record. good is swinging to get on base before swinging for a home run. ....
Between his top aides and the outside groups that struck a lot of campaign finance experts as supervising. you know, it amazes me no, it doesn t. people would say why do that if he wants to run for president. why get involved? he was facing a tough recall. ed schultz was on his tail in terms of the labor issues. the labor unions were out to get him and still are. he was worried about getting recalled. so what do you do? yeah. what do you do? what did he do? what do you see in the charges? the same thing matea mentioned. it s amazing to me he would directly write to rove like that. that s usually done by an aide two places away or done by r.j. johnson. not done by the governor himself, bragging about this thing that brings together 12 groups to raise money and of shift money to different races. really weird that the governor ....
Against the consultants and the party power structure in washington and the k street republicans and all that. here they are, as soon as they have a chance, imitating the very people they were attacking. and the practical effects of it are real. kentucky, the state i m following closely because i used to be a reporter there, there s a tea party candidate in the primary, republican primary on may 20th. matt bevin. he s got a lot of problems politically. but one of his problems is he doesn t have enough money. he s spending some of his own money but he s not getting the tea party support that he was promised, including by the organizations that matea wrote about and he s probably going to get hammered in that primary. what percentage is going to the candidates of the money they collect, roughly? three of the best-known groups of the tea party patriots, tea party express and the madison project which very prominently endorsed candidates has spent 5% or less of their funds actually dir ....
Well, i have faith in her and i m sure she knows what she s doing. there s a vigorous debate going on right now among folks who identify with the tea party movement about the best use of their resources. howard, will this be a stink? oh, i think so. because i think after the primary season here, you ve got several republican tea party challengers in these senatorial primaries and elsewhere. they re going to look around after they get blown out and say what the heck happened? kentucky is a good example. what i put this down to, chris, you can have a genuine grassroots movement or you can have big party machinery. you can t imitate and create a fake grassroots movement. and that s the way it feels right now. thank you, matea, for that great piece. howard fineman, thank you as always. when we return, let me finish with what i learned on my ten-day trip to china. and that s epic, bro, we ve forgotten just how good good is. ....
let s talk about that. i want to bring in white house correspondent for yahoo! news. there is, matea, criticisms focusing too much on hillary and not much on the midterms, which are important. sure. and i think we saw that today with priority s usa which is a democratic super pac in 2012 making it clear they are encouraging donors to give to the super pacs and they are not even going to begin actively fundraising for 2016 until after the midterm elections. really trying to answer some of those concerns in the party that they are going to cannibalize the group and when you have americans for prosperity, there s a real anxiety among democrats that are not going to have the money to compete in this cycle. there s a big fear and back ....