Here's video too. It will not link right, so cut and paste it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-D1D2j1p1I&feature=channel_page
Here's video too. It will not link right, so cut and paste it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-D1D2j1p1I&feature=channel_page
Reportedly 300 attended the first of two TEA parties.
I just drove by the Federal Building in Evansville, IN. Probably 100-150 demonstrators, many of them wearing POW/MIA shirts and holding tax protest signs. Two different local TV news crews filming, ABC and Fox. Didn’t have time to take a cell pic, so you’ll have to take my word for it.
West Coast TEA PARTIES start in about 15 minutes and will run all afternoon - GOOD LUCK WEST COAST GANG
We had a Tea Party for Sussex County Delaware at the Circle in Georgetown from noon to 2:00 pm.
It was rainy, cold and windy, but about 200 intrepid souls of all ages turned out and we had a great rally.
Traffic around the Circle slowed down to a crawl at times, and lots of folks blew their horns and gave us the thumbs up in support.
I stood next to a Democrat (!) whose sign said “No More Bailouts” and we had a great time talking.
My sign said “ The Real Pirates are in D.C.”.
Delmarva TV station WBOC was there. I got interviewed, so we’ll see if they use the footage.
Considering the really awful conditions, a crowd of 200 was quite a good sized crowd.
The Tennessean (of all sources) has a good liveblog post on the Party, http://blogs.tennessean.com/politics/2009/liveblogging-the-nashville-tea-party/. They estimated crowd at 2500.
Channel 4 has some pics up, http://www.wsmv.com/money/19188311/detail.html. That was the only TV I saw with a truck there. Nothing from Channel 5 - they did have a report up about Agriculture Day yesterday on TN Capitol Hill; politicians milking cows.
Just got back from the Tea Party held at City Hall in Lee’s Summit, MO. There were a couple of hundred people gathered who were more fired-up than the majority of the speakers. Lots of cops taking pictures of all of us “radical right-wing extremists”.
The most interesting aspect was the local union big-wigs there trying to drum up opposition to a local developer request for city money. The developer got the local unions to back the proposal before the city several years ago and then brought in workers from another state.
Just got back from Jacksonville (FL) - a big success! There were well over 1,000 people there, and the interesting thing was that they ranged from downtown businessman types to students to moms with kids to some older people who had probably driven in from the country. What a group of terrorist extremists!
The signs were great, too (I have to admit my favorite sign was “Wake up and smell the dictator.”).
Around 7,000 at Oklahoma City, at noon today. Great crowd!
only it was 20'x12' and looked great!
I just got back from the Madison Wisconsin tea party and they said there were five thousand people there, but frankly it looked like twice that many to me. I was in the thick of the crowd and I didn’t see or hear any of the protesters that the local paper covered. There was one lone guy to the left of me that made some remarks, but it was a very peaceful event....and I think the local paper must have just interviewed some of their staff in the office.
Just got home from the Philly Rally. The weather was terrible but Im happy as hell that I went. Pictures to come soon.
Heading out to the Napa, CA Tea Party! Will post Pics later!
I drove around several times looking for a parking place at the Richardson TX party. Several hundred, all peacefully protesting. No sign of media (maybe I just missed it). Honked several times and gave the thumbs-up. Good and decent people all.
Contrasted to the losers on the left.
Congrats and GOD BLESS to those who came out.
A tour de force of bias via TV Newser, from her sarcasm to her Fox-bashing to her badgering a guy who’ll be paying off Obama’s monstrous deficits for decades about why he isn’t satisfied with a $400 tax break this year. The title of the clip is “CNN Reporter Roughed Up at Chicago Tea-Party,” which, as you’ll see, is a transparent lie unless you consider the crowd yelling at her to stop cutting off the people she’s interviewing as “rough.” But that’s par for the course for the narrative being organized here: A nasty, violent, ignorant crowd, all doing the bidding of CNN’s sinister competitor. Stay classy, Turnerites.
When Governor Rick Perry showed up to speak the crowd was cheering and chanting SECEDE, SECEDE!
Pictures can be seen here --> AUSTIN TEA PARTY