June 1, 2010

Virginia Thomas Celebrates 'Fantastic' Web Launch for Conservative Site

by Tony Mauro
Legal Times

Liberty Central, the brainchild of Virginia Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, celebrated its formal launch last week, garnering 45,000 viewers and more than 160,000 page views. Thomas announced those numbers in a "Dear Patriot" email to her supporters on Friday, thanking them for the first week's "fantastic results."

"You and your fellow citizens are embracing Liberty Central's mission," Thomas wrote. "We will listen, inspire, and activate so that together, we can secure the blessings of liberty."

Billing itself as "America's public square," the site is intended to be a central hub for education, activism, and civic engagement for conservatives, as we reported in February. She said then that her intended audience was broader than the tea party movement, and was aimed at stopping the "over-extended government" policies of the Obama Administration.

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