Four Tennessee tea party activists who said they couldn't afford the $550 tickets to the National Tea Party Convention staged a guerilla news conference just outside of the event to challenge its representation of the movement. "There are a lot of citizens in the state of Tennessee today who could not afford to be here particularly in this economy," said Antonio Hinton, a 37-year old tea party activist from Knoxville. "They're just as patriotic. They're just as concerned. They care just as much about what's going on as the folks that are in that room."
