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Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-FL), whose run for Senate has been cast to the sidelines as the state’s top two Republicans duke it out, said that the campaign had already become a “referendum” on the Tea Party movement, owing to the attention it has drawn from ultra-conservative figures.
In a conference call on Thursday, the Florida Democrat singled out House Speaker Marco Rubio in particular, insisting that he had become a conduit for the Tea Party’s more incendiary figures.
“When you have the Club for Growth, CPAC, other groups, [Dick] Armey, [Rush] Limbaugh who lives in Florida and a number of other individuals of influence as it relates to the ultra-conservative community, all on one side of the ball saying this is what we want,” Meek said, “that means that moderate Republicans, Independents and Democrats are going to have to choose and say this is what we want, and this is how we want it, and we do not want to federalize someone who is going to carry this country into the direction it was in two or three years ago.”
Earlier, Meek made it a point to mention that Rubio had the backing of another prominent and divisive conservative figure — Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) — who endorsed the state’s House Speaker well before other more mainstream Republicans considered it in vogue.
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