This week a local tea party leader made news by tweeting about shooting immigrants. Now that same tea bagger is wanted by police:

Police are searching for a local Tea Party leader in Ohio who is wanted for violating a temporary protection order. Meanwhile, speakers at a Tea Party rally organized by the man, Brian “Sonny” Thomas, have pulled out after he suggested in a tweet that he wanted to shoot Hispanic immigrants — then blaming it on a Bee Gees song.

Thomas is the founder and president of the Springboro Tea Party in southwest Ohio. He faces a misdemeanor charge after recently going to the home of the mother of his son, in violation of a protection order. The woman had previously told police that their son had returned from Thomas’s home with bruises.

Thomas had already been in hot water, after he tweeted during a march in support of immigration reform: “Illegals everywhere today! So many spicks makes me feel like a speck. Grr. Where’s my gun?”

I’m sure that other tea baggers will quickly say how this guy isn’t really affiliated with them. That seems to be their common defense on stuff like this, and it’s happening more and more. Welcome to the new party that makes the Republicans look like the morale authority. Now that was an undertaking.