Huntsville - Speaking at a press conference at Mo Brooks for Congress campaign headquarters, leaders of the four largest Tea Party organizations in the 5th Congressional District of Alabama made the following statement regarding the recent recorded phone call attacking Mo Brooks:

"As leaders of the four largest Tea Party groups in North Alabama's 5th Congressional District: Chad Capps, President of the Huntsville Tea Party Movement; Denel Wardell, President of Shoals2DC and head of Alabama Liberty Caucus; Steve Phillips, President of Tea Party Patriots of North Alabama; and Deborah King, leaders of the Athens-Limestone Tea Party; we join together to make the following statement:

"Recently, there have been a number of robo-calls targeting likely supporters of the Tea Party movement in the 5th Congressional District of Alabama stating that the Tea Party has been insulted by Republican Congressional Candidate Mo Brooks. These calls are worded to make it sound like they were run by the Tea Party. This call hides its backers and with its wording misrepresents itself as being the position of the Tea Party movement, which it is not. We condemn this automated call as intentionally deceptive.

"We strongly state that no Tea Party group in the Tennessee Valley is responsible for these calls. These calls are just another desperate example of dirty politics. Mo Brooks has not 'insulted the

Tea Party members,' he has not 'left conservative voters desperate for leadership,' and he certainly does not need to be reminded of the importance of lower taxes, as evidenced by the fact that he was ranked #1 out of 140 legislators in the fight against higher taxes by the Alabama Taxpayers Defense Fund.