National tea party supporters intend to send a warning to federal lawmakers Monday that if they raise the debt ceiling and allow the government to borrow more money, they will work to vote them out of office.
Iowa conservative leader Bob Vander Plaats will be one of the message-bearers at the news conference in Washington, D.C., on Monday morning.
Vander Plaats told The Des Moines Register on Thursday that he will speak at the National Press Club along with William Temple, chairman of the Tea Party Founding Fathers, and Joseph Farah, founder of the World Net Daily website.
They will warn Republican House Speaker John Boehner not to sell out taxpayers. And they will announce the beginning of the "RINO hunting season" - an effort to recruit GOP primary challengers to take out "Republicans in Name Only."
Temple, who will be in colonial costume for the 9:15 a.m. news conference, is also chairman of the Tea Party Founding Fathers' Freedom Jamboree and National Straw Poll Convention, which takes place from Sept. 28 to Oct. 2 in Kansas City.
Vander Plaats said he is vice chairman of the Kansas City event. He is also president of the Family Leader, an Iowa-based advocacy group that opposes same-sex marriage and abortion and promotes fiscal policies that help families.
Vander Plaats and the Family Leader are playing a prominent role in the lead-up to the Iowa caucuses by hosting an ongoing lecture series for potential Republican presidential prospects.
An article on World Net Daily quotes Vander Plaats as saying the House GOP "must play hardball on the debt ceiling for the sake of the hard-pressed, taxpaying families across the USA. If nothing else, they must seize this moment to fix health care entitlements."
The website's founder, Farah, is the author of "The Tea Party Manifesto: A Vision for an American Rebirth" and other books.
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