Posted on 04/15/2009 5:29:39 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
Please post what is happening at your tea party here, your location and attendance...and as always, lots of pictures:)
Just got back from the one in St. Augustine, FL. At the height we had about 500 people in front of the oldest fort in the country.
Good turn out. Great signs. Lots of friendly folks.
Many people honking for suppports.
PS I don’t know how to upload pics.
I hope everyone who can be at a tea party...just be there! May we have thousands show up.
God bless America!!!
And you’re right...there’s more conservative folks out there. It just takes some more time to show up, than others. :-)
Hi, WakeUpandVote,
We were in Harrisburg also, but I don’t know how to put my pictures up, but they look much like your pictures, a sea of umbrellas! But I hear there were about 2000 people, so I think that was a good crowd in that rainstorm!
More than 2,000 people are expected to converge in Downtown Peoria on Wednesday to protest what they believed to be out-of-control government spending during a tax day “tea party,” a modern spinoff of the Boston Tea Party.
No streets are being closed. Police said since organizers of several groups involved said they plan to move around and not rally in one place.
The event will start at 11 a.m. in the Peoria Public Library parking lot at Southwest Monroe and Hamilton streets. It is largely organized by the Campaign for Liberty. Protesters will walk from the federal courthouse to Peoria County Courthouse and around. It's part of a nonpartisan nationwide effort that will take place in more than 500 cities.
Anyone is invited to attend.”
Note: The "suspicious package" tossed over the fence at this tea party protest turned out to be ... tea. Imagine that!
Americans in all 50 states are holding rallies on Thursday -- the day US tax returns are due -- to protest higher taxes and what they denounce as out-of-control government spending. (AFPTV)
Note: The above photo is a cropped shot of BufordP's sign in DC today. For some reason, the AFP couldn't stomach posting his entire sign. Here it is:
Hey BufordP! I think you offended the French press with your sign.
Good work, fella!
ML/NJ
"Tax Day Tea Party Central Illinoisans say enough is enough Tools
Tax Day Tea Party
Police estimated that 3,000 people attended Wednesday's Tax Day Tea Party at the Peoria County Courthouse. By Marc Strauss
Story Published: Apr 15, 2009 at 4:38 PM CDT
Story Updated: Apr 15, 2009 at 4:38 PM CDT
Justin Abatie is "Tea'd off".
"The answer to 2009 is 1776. Whoo!," Justin shouted into his megaphone on the steps of the Peoria County Courthouse.
Like the colonists in Boston, who revolted against burdensome British taxation in 1773, Abatie, and an estimated 3,000 thousand others, staged their own "Tea Party" Wednesday in downtown Peoria. TEA, or T–E–A, stands for "taxed enough already".
"Out of control spending is running rampant through Washington these days," Abatie told News 25, "and our elected officials are just not listening to what the people have to say. We elected them and we are their bosses and they work for us, we do not work for them."
Kathleen Healde is worried about the burden the federal debt will put on her grandchildren.
"I have a 2 year-old granddaughter and an 11 year-old grandson," said Healde, "and I feel the money is being spent terribly. Terribly. And I think they’re going to pay for it and its an unfair burden."
There were more than 300 Tea Parties on Tax Day all across America - 13 of them in Illinois. At all of them, people are saying they're fed up with massive government spending, complaining that the federal government has grown into exactly what George Washington and the founders fought to defeat over 230 years ago.
"The Constitution is almost being disregarded in today’s world," said Greg Albrecht. "A lot of people argue that its old and outdated, but its worked for over 200 years."
Christina Arndt is especially passionate about today's event.
"Two of my ancestors, Daniel Carroll of The Constitution and John Carroll the Declaration of Independence, risked their lives. It says in our Constitution that we have a right, when the government is against us, that we can form our own and that’s what we’re doing."
"We’re fed up," said a man named Scott, who declined to provide his last name. "And if they don’t adhere to The Constitution they’ll be out of a job in two or four years."
That's because those gathered Wednesday at the courthouse believe America belongs to "We the People".
Only saw 2 protesters, way in the back with signs wondering where we were when Bush was overspending. (My error, not fixing the camera date - it was today.)
Thousands Attend Tax ‘Tea Parties’
Protests Scattered Throughout Central Fla.
POSTED: Wednesday, April 15, 2009
UPDATED: 5:17 pm EDT April 15, 2009
ORLANDO, Fla. — Protesters around the country and here in Central Florida are gearing up to rally against tax day with “tea parties.”
Organizers said they’re steamed at government spending since President Barack Obama’s administration took over and are planning their own mini-revolts. The rallies are designed to echo the original Boston Tea Party more than 235 years ago.
Hundreds of people gathered in Ferran Park in downtown Eustis. In Viera, protestors gathered on a street corner.
The largest rally so far has been at the Deland City Hall, where thousands of people are protesting taxes and big government.
“This is in conjunction with 500 other tea parties around the country. Unless we slow the growth we will not recognize the America you are living in today,” Orlando rally organizer Rick Richbourg said.
Richbourg said Americans are paying too much in taxes for too many empty promises.
“The timing is self-evident. Let the government know about the course the government is on,” Richbourg said.
About 6,000 Central Floridians turned out for a similar rally in March.
Demonstrators said they hope media coverage will be enough to get their message through to Washington.
The demonstrations are being held everywhere from Kentucky, which just passed tax increases on cigarettes and alcohol, to South Carolina, where the governor has repeatedly criticized the stimulus package. Large protests also are expected in California, New York and Atlanta.
http://www.clickorlando.com/money/19186867/detail.html
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I’m talking to our sheriff. I work on the first floor of the courthouse in our county. His office is on the third floor. This is absolutely ridiculous!!
This guy is a West Point graduate and was Saddam's personal physician when Saddam was in jail. He now is a physician at our Gateway Medical center in Clarksville, TN. He also studied economics
Got my wife and signs ready to go...
PORKULOUS = DEMOCRAT SLUSH FUND (that's mine)
OBAMA - "HEY BIG SPENDER" (for the wife)
Same here. The news in Des Moines said a crowd of more than 2000....
More than? Yeah.
Hell, yeah!
More than TWICE that size.
The State Trooper said it was around Fourty-five Hundred. I spell it out, so that his words are clear.
Thanks for your post about the Plymouth, MI rally at Kellogg Park. I had no idea how to gauge how many people were there. Next time I’m going to construct my signs differently! They were a little hard to hold.
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