Dick Armey, the chairman of the conservative tea party-aligned group FreedomWorks, has resigned his post, representatives of the group said on Monday.
Adam Brandon, the group’s executive vice president, confirmed to CNN “that he did step down on Friday, and we wish him well.”
“Obviously the elections didn’t go the way we wanted,” Brandon said. “But we are focused on the learning the lessons on what we need to better heading into 2013.”
Mother Jones, which first reported the resignation, reported Armey said in an interview that the group’s leadership was “taking a direction I thought was unproductive.”
“Obviously I was not happy with the election results,” he said, according to Mother Jones. “We might’ve gotten better results if we had gone in a different direction. But it isn’t that I got my nose out of line because we should’ve done better.”
CONTINUED at CNN.
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