Posted on 09/04/2009 2:19:28 PM PDT by engrpat
ADDISON — A crowd estimated at 3,000 people assembled in the parking lot of an Addison restaurant Friday to protest the Obama administration's health care plan.
Organizers of the Tea Party Express caravan said it was the biggest crowd since they began a cross-country, grass-roots marathon last month in Sacramento, California.
Many attending the lunch time rally outside the Cape Buffalo restaurant carried signs reading "ObamaScare: It's to die for," "Hands off our Medicare & guns" and "'We're not going to pull the plug on Grandma' — THEY JUST WON'T PLUG HER IN."
This is an outgrowth of "tea party" events in North Texas and across the nation earlier this year in which citizens expressed their frustration with government spending, government intrusion on their lives and higher taxes.
Organizers of the Tea Party Express said the health care issue has crystallized support for the movement. President Obama will address a joint session of Congress on that topic next week.
The caravan is making its way to Washington D.C. for a taxpayer march on September 12.
The tour will make a "whistle stop" scheduled for 2:45 p.m. at an Interstate 30 rest stop in Mount Vernon, Texas; then will continue to Little Rock, Arkansas at 6 p.m. and Memphis, Tennessee at 10 p.m.
I love Texans. This sums up Obamacare in a sentence fragment.
I love Texans too! Way to go, Texas!!! Lead the way to saving this country!
These Tea Parties and Town Halls keep getting larger and larger. At first it was maybe a hundred would show up, and now it’s many times more than that, often in the thousands.
It was great! I’m working on a video from the pics I took!
We stayed for 2.5 hours, but then it just got too hot for the babies and we had to leave. Wish I could have met some FReepers while we were there! I walked around for awhile calling out for FReepers, only met one lady who said she was a lurker here...next time I’ll make a sign looking for FReepers! :-)
Do you think Obama’s heard of “Tea Parties” yet?
Never underestimate the will of the American people!
It was an energized crowd that overwhelmed the available space in the parking lot of a restaurant. Some people parked half a mile away. Passing cars on the congested corner blasted their horns in support. There were hundreds of signs. The buses were hailed like a military battalion returning from abroad. The speakers and entertainers were great but they needed a heftier sound system. A beautiful woman crouched on top of one of the buses and made videos of the crowd. She was herself quite photogenic.
The good news is that this story made at least three of the four networks - NBC, FOX and ABC at the 5 pm news casts. A TeaParty spokeswoman, said on NBC, “This is the biggest rally so far on the trip.”
“They turned out in force.” Love the aerial shots on the news video!
I was there...you must not have been calling out loud enough! Of course, I could barely hear the speakers over the noise.
“I walked around for awhile calling out for FReepers.”
I always put a smallish “www.FreeRepublic.com” line at the bottom of my signs. Other FReepers have approached me.
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