By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
c.2010 New York Times News Service
BALTIMORE – The campaign is over, but the Tea Party members have not yet begun to fight.
Before the official freshman orientation for new members of Congress even begins in Washington, several tea party groups are hosting their own training sessions, planning rallies and spreading the message to newly minted members to avoid the wily ways of those who would seek to lead them legislatively astray.
Most prominently, FreedomWorks, the Washington advocacy group that was active in building the Tea Party movement, held a day-and-a-half retreat here Thursday and Friday with about 25 new House members and one newly elected senator, Mike Lee from Utah.