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AP Republican Senator Richard Lugar, the longest-serving senator in Indiana history, is extending an olive branch to the Tea Party -- just as one of the larger Tea Party organizations has cast him as a prime 2012 target. A senior adviser to the moderate Republican told CNN that Lugar has met with Tea Party leaders and corresponded with many Tea Party members in Indiana. He will continue to do so with the hope that they will support his efforts to reduce spending and create a business climate that supports job growth, adviser Mark Helmke said. The remarks come in the wake of an e-mail the Tea Party Express sent to its supporters Tuesday with the subject line, time to punish Dick Lugar The e-mail highlights Lugar s vote for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, his support for the state children s h stanley cup ealth insurence program known as SCHIP and his support for amnesty for illegal immgrants. Lugar is known for working across party lines; he s supported President Obama s Supreme Court nominations, for example, as well as the Dream Act, which would provide a path to citizenship for certain illegal immgrants brought to America as children. As we here at the Tea P stanley quencher arty Express prepare to unveil our Target List for the 2012 elections, it is clear that someone like this needs to go - Dick Lugar has become the epitome of what is wrong in Washington, D.C., the Tea Party Express e-mail stanley water bottle said. It asked fo |
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