Pam Wohlschlegel, who quit Monday as Palm Beach County director of the South Florida Tea Party, announced this morning that she’s heading a new group called the Palm Beach County Tea Party.
Wohlshclegel resigned after South Florida Tea Party Chairman Everett Wilkinson ripped the House GOP Medicare overhaul plan as a “public policy nightmare.” Wilkinson’s comments were the latest example of his tendency to butt heads with others in the tea party movement.
In a video Q&A about her new group, Wohlschlegel says the Palm Beach Tea Party wants to “work more cooperatively and coordinate with other like-minded groups…Given that several of us who are forming this group did start out with the South Florida Tea Party, I guess it does constitute somewhat of a split, but we do wish Everett well in what he does. We just want to take a slightly different tack to meeting the same goals.”
Wohlschlegel also addresses the flap between Wilkinson and the city of Boca Raton over an outstanding bill of more than $6,000 the city says the South Florida Tea Party owes for police and barricades deployed for an April rally with Donald Trump.
“I’m sure that Everett will meet his responsibilities and pay the bills,” Wohlschlegel says.
Tags: Everett Wilkinson, Pam Wohlschlegel
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