Tea Party Senators Unwilling To Join Caucus
Politico reports:
With less than a week to go before its first meeting, the new Senate Tea Party Caucus has just three members: GOP Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Jim DeMint of South Carolina and Mike Lee of Utah.
The three will headline the first meeting Jan. 27, a public event also featuring national tea party leaders.
Left out of the club are several newly elected Repubican senators who rode the tea party wave of momentum this fall, including Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.
A spokesman for Rubio, a tea party favorite, told POLITICO earlier this week that he has “not made any decisions about any caucus memberships.”
Johnson said through his spokeswoman Friday that he has no plans of joining the caucus.
