TPP leaders have used dodgy accounting tricks to avoid publicly disclosing financial information. They’ve refused to share this information with the group’s members. Tea partiers who’ve tried to pierce the veil of secrecy have found themselves threatened with lawsuits or shut out of the organization entirely. And the group has tried to buy the silence of former employees and disillusioned board members, offering sums as high as $20,000 to sign confidentiality agreements. (National TPP coordinators did not respond to requests for comment for this story.)

This to me is extremely telling. Apparently they really DO want the Tea Party to be run exactly the same way as the federal government.

This is what happens to all organizations when they get big enough. The polticiking begins, the alliances form and leaders become more concerned with their own power and money than anything else.