Jenny Beth Martin

Jenny Beth Martin is the President of Tea Party Patriots, nationally prominent in the Tea Party movement, and a former Republican political consultant doing paid work from 2008 onwards. Time Magazine listed her, in 2010, as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. On her way to Tea Party leadership, she and her husband, after the failure of a technology business during the George W. Bush Administration, declared personal bankruptcy, but her economic criticism has been focused completely on the Obama Administration. She has her own blog, and also works with Top Conservatives On Twitter and Smart Girl Politics.

Her Tea Party involvement began after hearing Rick Santelli's February 2009 call to action. "Someone, Martin isn’t sure who, coined the name “Tea Party Patriots.” In June she incorporated Tea Party Patriots as a nonprofit political action organization." She has traveled widely for the movement, and, as opposed to more locally focused people, includes Washington DC in her itineraries.

Interviewed on CNN, she said that the movement has no place for racism.

In Tea Party Patriots, we have no place for that," Jenny Beth Martin said on CNN's American Morning when asked about the potentially "radical views" of certain members. "If we see somebody who's doing something racist, we tell them to leave our events. We're there for our core values. We want to reclaim our founding principles in this country.

According to Martin, the Tea Party movement is focused on getting the government to listen to their key principles, which she listed as "fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free markets."