Alan Grayson: Tea Party ‘no more popular than the Klan’

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Republicans are blasting outspoken Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson for a fundraising email in which he associates the Tea Party with the Ku Klux Klan, calling it “hateful” and demanding Democrats return money the Florida lawmaker has raised for them.

Grayson’s email features a picture of a burning cross used as a “T” to spell the words “Tea Party.” Two figures dressed in white robes are pictured in the background.

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