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...looking for a leader?" boomed Mark Lloyd, chairman of the Lynchburg Tea Party, which organized the debate. A smattering of hands shot up. "You're wrong," Lloyd told them. "If you're looking for a leader, look in the mirror. These people are not here to be your leader. This is a job application, and you are the boss...
...disgraced former one-term Democratic Congressman from New York, Eric Massa, who had resigned only hours earlier amid an ethics inquiry into allegations that he groped and sexually harassed some of his male employees over the years. Massa, who has maintained that his main reason for not running for re-election in the fall is a recurrence of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, arrived at the Fox studios with an X-ray of his chest and a photo album of pictures from his Navy service that, he announced, "looks like an orgy in Caligula." "I'm going to show...
...rhetoric and tapping those who will do the people's bidding. In this district, as in other regions where distrust of government runs deep, the congregation is growing. "People need to understand that whoever you vote for, these guys work for you," says Dion Richardson, a Lynchburg lawyer. "They're not rock stars. That's your employee. He's no different than the guy that cuts your grass." See pictures of members of the Tea Party movement...
...framers' principles. "It's almost a group-therapy thing," Lloyd says of the passion coursing through Tea Party events. "For years, they've felt isolated. If they spoke their true feelings, they'd be vilified. If there's been anything rewarding, it's to see these people realize they're not alone...
...Lynchburg is not without risks for the GOP. "In the beginning, maybe these activists wanted to push the Republican Party in a more conservative direction, and they were willing to do whatever it took," says Isaac Wood, a political analyst at the University of Virginia. "Now that they're getting involved in the political process, they may realize that Goal No. 1 is unseating Perriello, and nominating as conservative a person as possible is No. 2." The fervor could end up hurting them, Wood adds, if one of the Tea Party hopefuls decides to run as a third-party candidate...