Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin visited with Del Norte branch members as she kicked off a state tour Wednesday.

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“The people here in the Tea Party group have become very active in the Republican Party and are working to take it back,” Martin said of the Del Norters. “That’s something that’s happening in other places around the country where they feel like the Republican Party has too many RINOS, Republicans in name only.”

She said the locals told her they’d like to bring in more speakers from other parts of the country to reinforce the need to shrink the government.