Slight Awkwardness as More State and Federal Money Needed to Help Pay for Boston's Tea Party Museum

Last summer, you might recall that the city of Boston made a move that looked to be capitalizing on the then yet-to-be-determined, widespread popularity of the Tea Party activist movement by announcing plans to build a new Boston Tea Party Museum (honoring the original event, not the current incarnation). Three parties would be tasked the raise the $25 million needed to build the museum (or rather, rebuild, as the original burnt down in 2001 and then it burnt down again when they tried rebuilding in 2007), a collaboration between the city, the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority and the company, Historic Tours of America.