Within just a few weeks in 2009, Jenny Beth Martin went from losing her home to foreclosure and cleaning bathrooms to pay the bills to becoming one the key leaders of the grassroots Tea Party movement. Along with Mark Meckler, Martin founded the Tea Party Patriots. They are also co-authors of a new book by the same name. Martin tells us why she and her husband did not want to be part of big government programs that may have allowed them to keep their home. She also explains why she’s disappointed with many of the freshman Republicans her group and other Tea Party members helped to elect. Martin also explains why ideas will be the focus of the Tea Party in 2012 and not a lot of campaigning for specific candidates. She also explains some of the reform ideas she thinks need to be pursued both in the near term and the long term.
