Dean Murray was sworn into the New York State Assembly on Monday. He’s the first Tea Party candidate to be sworn into office. If a Tea Party candidate can win in NY (Downstate, even), Tea Party candidates can win anywhere!
He was interviewed by Greta Van Susteren last week.
MURRAY: I’m a proud member of the Brook Haven and Suffolk County Republican Party, and also I was on the conservative line, as well. But I was one of the original — one of the organizers of one of many original tea parties on tax day in 2009.
VAN SUSTEREN: Are you a happy member of the Republican Party or are you branching off into the Tea Party — I don’t know it is not really a movement yet, but whatever it is.
MURRAY: I think it is a movement. Yes, I am very happy to be in the Republican Party. I’ll tell you why, because it seems like while the Democratic Party is working so hard to tear down what the Tea Party movement is about and discredit them, it seems the Republican Party is embracing the Tea Party movement.
And the important thing with that is the Tea Party movement is based on what the core Republican values are based on. The Tea Party movement is based on smaller government, about fiscal responsibility, and most importantly, and I think this is the key word for this entire year, “accountability.”
You can read the full transcript here.
Via Nassau Tea Party
