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The top Republican Party leaders from three South Florida counties are joining forces Saturday with a tea party activist known for incendiary comments she has directed at other Republican leaders.

The party chairmen from Broward, Palm Beach and Martin counties are scheduled to appear at a luncheon and discussion in Fort Lauderdale, with Danita Kilcullen, co-founder of Tea Party Fort Lauderdale.

Kilcullen spent much of the past two years as leader of a faction within the Broward Republican Party that was devoted as rooting out what it regarded as not truly Republican and insufficiently conservative often using strong words to get her point across.

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She said that Republican leaders with libertarian leanings like Ryan Anderson, Broward's state party committeeman, want "anarchy," and after getting approval of medical marijuana they'd advance to more drugs, decriminalizing prostitution and allowing same-sex marriage.

She chastised Republican County Commissioner Chip LaMarca and Republican School Board member Heather Brinkworth for participating in the annual gay pride parade in Wilton Manors last June with an email that began with the line: "Whores chasing whores, if you will."

With a new Broward party chairwoman, Christine Butler, and a new Palm Beach County chairman, Michael Barnett, elected in December, Kilcullen said the local parties have leadership much more to her liking.

"I think we have some chairpeople now who are a little bit more reasonable," Kilcullen said. "We were ripping each other apart in the last two years in our [Republican] Executive Committee. I'd like to never see that again," she said.

Kilcullen, who was a supporter of Butler's in the election for a new Broward party chief, said the leadership changes would allow the tea party to work in sync with the Republican Party. With the two organizations working more closely together, Kilcullen said she hopes the result is Republican candidates who are more to the liking of the tea party wing of the party.

"I believe the tea party and the Republican Party should pick and define its candidates and not stand by and let the establishment choose for us," she said.

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South Florida Republican leaders breaking bread with controversial tea party leader