Keeping Out the Tea Party Trash

The Lords raise up the draw bridge, lest any peasants get big ideas about entering the castle.
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The Republican Party of Arkansas' Executive committee has voted to roughly double filing fees for state representative, state senate, and U.S. Congress.   That ought to keep the Tea Party trash out of your primaries, right fellas?   The insiders overwhelmingly agree that voter choice ought to be restricted to candidates with adequate corporate and special interest funding!

I view it as sort of a tax increase on participation in the political system.