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Tea party evolves, achieves state policy victories

By Bill Barrow
Published August 12, 2012 4:00am ET
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Tea party evolves, achieves state policy victories
Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., gives a thumbs-up at a rally Sunday, August 12, 2012, in Mooresville, N.C., at the NASCAR Technical Institute. (AP Photo/Jason E. Miczek) | Jason E. Miczek

ATLANTA (AP) — Tea party activists in Georgia helped kill a proposed sales tax increase that would have raised billions of dollars for transportation projects.

In Pennsylvania, tea partyers pushed to have taxpayers send public school children to private schools.

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