Details emerge in big bucks breakup within fake-grassroots tea party group

>>> do you remember school picture day in junior high ? it turn out we subject our elected officials to that humiliation as well. like your photos put those awkward photos of you on the frig where they remain today, feathered hair and all, the u.s. printing office hopefully keeps a record of our elected officials ' official class pictures. these are from 1999 . the 106th congress . this is dick armey 's official class picture. when mother jones broke the story yesterday about his contentious break-up with the fake grassroots kotchman brothers group freedom works , they dmanlded that armey be paid until his contract ended on december 31st . that they remove his name, image, or signature from all its letters, print media , fundraising material and social media and that he demanded, that freedom works deliver the copy of his official congressional portrait to his home in texas. someone at freedom works , is there somebody who is bummed? i don't want to part with my official portrait of dick armey . it looks so great in the office! is this even the portrait in question? or is there a fancier portrait that he is demanded freedom works send to his home following their big acrimonious break-up? now we know that it turns out, freedom works will be sending hole to texas more than just dick armey 's congressional portrait. the associated press reporting today that they acquired a confidential contract that shows that dick armey agreed to quit freedom works back in september in exchange for -- $8 million. holy grassroots, batman. it was worth $8 million to freedom works to make dick armey go away. for mr. artichis part he said it is a matter of principle. that was the quote from him. my differences with freedom works are a matter of principle. which means on the $8 million check that you write to me please put principle in the memo line. that's why i'm leaving. principle. there are few aspects of this story that could do with a little more reporting. and tonight politico.com has add some details to this mystery. they're reporting that the entire dick armey freedom works break yum was over the issue of who would get to profit financially from a book deal the organization was involved in. it was a book ultimately published earlier this year. there are details on the $8 million payout to old grassroots dick armey that was apparently conditioned on his station through the presidential election . mr. army told politico if he left before the election, quote, the concern was that the story in the press, that the story the press would write is that the whole tea party movement was in a state of disarray. that was probably a fairly reality based concern to have, and we wanted the organization to survive and do well and the movement to survive and do well. that was one of the reasons why we were concerned about me leaving before the election. why would anybody think the tea party movement is in disarray? the right seems to be imploding since the election, which we expected. it turns out though that the unexpected thing is that the implosion will happen very, very slowly. day by day by day with new acrimonious details dripping out in every news cycle. [