The Tea Party is really showing their colors of being a corporate party now:

The Tea Party Exchange, the Dayton Tea Party’s program that seeks to link conservative consumers with businesses with like-minded owners to support the party’s cause, is getting mixed reactions from the public.

Mixing their businesses with politics has caused a backlash against some of the companies that joined the exchange, which gives a discount to Tea Party members with a TPX-Great American card and prompts the business to donate five percent of the sale to the local Tea Party chapter.

I have a list of the businesses in the exchange so far. If you are in the Dayton, Ohio area, I suggest not doing business with these companies:

• Anderson Mechanical Associates, LLC
• Beef O’Brady’s Family Sorts Bar
• Cool Solutions Heating & Air Conditioning
• D.A.R.E. Auto motivate Specialists Inc
• Essex & Associates
• Essex HR & Associates
• Evans BMW, Volvo, Volkswagen
• Flash Quick Topy
• G.I. Dart General Contracting/A-1 Roofing
• Gamber Family Dental
• Graphic Impact
• HouseMaster Home Inspections & Radon Resting
• Marketing Consultants
• McAfee Heating & Air Conditioning
• O’Leary’s Pub & Grub
• Reiber Cleaners
• Rich Roofing
• Right At Home-Dayton
• Ryan B. Walker CPA
• Safeguard Print & Promo
• Screen Works
• Susan Essex Realtor
• Tea Party Payroll, LLC
• The Accounting & Business Coach
• The Bronze Salon Tanning

Please feel free to share this list around.