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Tea Party leader Amy Kremer rejected comparisons between the Tea Party movement and the Occupy Wall Street protests on Friday, saying that the large-scale demonstrations would need to move beyond rallies if the goal was to achieve change.

Kremer, co-chair of Tea Party Express, one of the largest Tea Party organizations, said the Occupy Wall Street protesters needed to be “realistic” in their “ridiculous, absurd” demands. “Holding rallies doesn't do anything other than attract people to the movement,” she told The Guardian. "The question is what do you do then? How do [they] direct all that support and energy towards action, towards influencing legislation?"

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