When we last saw Tennessee teabagga playa Bill Hemrick he was being used by Herman Cain and not in that hawt “I’ma gonna sex you up and make you my special lady” kind of way that Herman has with the wimmens. Hemrick held a greet & grip for the gropey pizza guy that didn’t turn out so well:

Management problems extended to important events. In July, a businessman and Tea Party supporter, Bill Hemrick, invited some 200 friends to the private Standard Club in Nashville to meet Mr. Cain. Mr. Hemrick said the Cain campaign had asked him to serve as its financial chairman for Tennessee.

After speaking to the crowd, Mr. Cain was to attend a private club dinner for a select group of conservatives, who were in a position to donate the $2,500 maximum.

But somehow Mr. Cain forgot, or his staff failed to follow through. After his speech, Mr. Cain called to thank Mr. Hemrick for the evening. “I said, ‘I’ll see you upstairs,’ Mr. Hemrick recalled, where the potential donors had gathered. “He said, ‘Well, I’m at the airport.’ ”

“I thought, wow, good communication there,” Mr. Hemrick said.

Mr. Hemrick, a founder of the Upper Deck trading card company, said that shortly afterward, the Cain campaign named someone else as its Tennessee financial chairman — which he first learned from his replacement.

Mr. Hemrick, who is now a fund-raiser for Representative Michele Bachmann, likes Mr. Cain’s conservatism and bears him no hard feelings.

But plucky Bill Hemrick is not one to be denied a voice in determining the future course of The American Experiment, so he and some buddies all pitched in to start up Tea Party HD which was supposed to be a teevee network devoted to teabaggers that would, I don’t know, maybe have a camera mounted on everyone’s flatscreen and people could sit on their couches and watch themselves scream at the teevee about Kenyans and socialism when then weren’t masturbating into their laminated copy of the Federalist Papers or something. I’m sure it would have been quite popular. But because the tea party draws grifters who can smell low-information/high-gullibility from a mile away, Bill and his buds, as they say in the south, “got took“:

A group of Middle Tennessee conservatives is suing a California businessman for $19 million, claiming he tricked them into investing in a sham business idea for a television network devoted to the tea party movement.

Among those suing is Bill Hemrick, the Brentwood millionaire who is the Tennessee financial director for Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann. Hemrick has been active in tea party circles in Williamson County, helping to organize the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville in 2010 that was headlined by Sarah Palin. He worked briefly raising money for presidential candidate Herman Cain.

Hemrick and the other plaintiffs — Howard Luartes, Reinhold Holtkamp and Melvin W. Martin of Williamson County; James Hearn of Davidson County; and James Huffnagle of Dickson County — ultimately invested $287,500 in the tea party television venture.

Hemrick and Anthony Loiacono founded Tea Party HD in 2010, but Hemrick and the other investors now claim in the lawsuit that Loiacono never kicked in his own promised investment and used the plaintiffs’ money as his own “personal bank account” to pay himself, his family members and his business, Heads & Tails Inc., “exorbitant rates” for the few projects Tea Party HD undertook.

“The alleged purpose of Tea Party HD was to be the ‘world’s first HD provider of news about the Tea Party,’ ” the lawsuit states. “In reality it was an investment scheme to defraud politically conservative-minded citizens who support the Tea Party mission.”

I love this part:

Loiacono has not filed a response in the lawsuit, but sent a news release to The Tennessean in which he challenged Hemrick to settle the lawsuit by facing off in a televised “lie detector challenge” in Nashville. Loiacono proposed that, if he wins, the lawsuit be dropped and he be reimbursed for all his expenses.

They could put it on Tea Party HD! Oh wait….

Anyway, the suit has been filed in Tennesee and can probably be found under Morans v. Loiacono.