In the wake of the announcement that Tennessee GOP Chair Chris Devaney is leaving his post to assume a leadership role at a non-profit, Hendersonville's Scottie Hughes, who serves as the news director at the Tea Party News Network, has indicated she may be a candidate for the job.
Hughes says she won't make an official announcement until April 6th -- likely because she wants to ensure she'd be able to garner enough votes to win the post.
It's unclear whether the Tennessee Republican Party Executive Committee would warm to Hughes, a leader in the anti-establishment Tea Party movement.
Hughes has also come under fire recently as key staffers at the Tea Party News Network resigned, citing unethical management practices. Specifically, the staffers noted:
“TheTeaParty.net Facebook page was built using non-profit dollars and resources and yet the hundreds of thousands of dollars a month being generated from traffic deriving from the non-profit Facebook page are being funneled to a for profit company with no transparency. Even if you could find a way to make that legal, it’s immoral and unethical,” the letter continues. “We represent ourselves as ‘The Tea Party’ on Facebook and take no action to hold ourselves to the higher standards of that designation. Posts by fights.buzz and viral.buzz have become increasingly vile and unacceptable. The Tea Party is not TMZ and TPNN is not WorldStar.”
Hughes defended the network's practices and has moved forward without the key staffers who left the organization.
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