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BREAKING NEWS FROM WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETS RALLY
AntiMullah ^ | 01/17/10 | Alan Peters /RALLY SITE

Posted on 01/17/2010 12:53:58 PM PST by FARS

Phone call from the Scott Brown rally, outside Mechanics Hall:

Up to 5,000 supporters of Scott Brown have gathered vociferously outside the hall, loud enough at times to drown out the phone conversation. Shouting slogans, they have blocked all four street lanes for about half a block around the rally point.

Only a few at a time were allowed into the hall for about 15 minutes and they have just announced that the hall is filled to capacity as are two overflow areas, one of which is Lexington Hall in the Crown Plaza hotel.

At least 2,000 people are still in the street outside the hall with no room for them to go. They are now marching toward another with a least 1,000 in front of Race Bannon who was one of the first to turn toward the new location and has that many behind him.

Whether sound and video will be piped to the oveflow areas was still unclear, though simulcast has been started at the Lexingtron Hall, whose 400 or so capacity has wall to wall, flesh to flesh packed attendance of at least 1,000 very enthusiastic supporters.

The rally includes visitors from New Jersey and parts of Illinois among other places.

(Excerpt) Read more at antimullah.com ...


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: aar; ma2010; massachusets; rally; scottbrown; worcester
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To: bcsco
I didn't quite catch the number but it was something over 2000

The fire department closed the doors at 1,100.

61 posted on 01/17/2010 1:32:59 PM PST by Beckwith (A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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To: Nateman

62 posted on 01/17/2010 1:34:19 PM PST by yield 2 the right (Freedom is never free, it costs blood, sweat and tears, and to some that is too high. I disagree!)
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To: Maine Mariner

Hey, if one of the biggest head busting, two fisted, ass kickers like Race Bannon is for Scott Brown, I am not going to argue.


63 posted on 01/17/2010 1:34:57 PM PST by Bad Jack Bauer (Fat and Bald? I was BORN fat and bald, thank you very much!)
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To: Beckwith

at which venue, Brown of BO?


64 posted on 01/17/2010 1:37:21 PM PST by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: Nateman

Permanent purple ink on the thumb during the first vote might make it fairly easy to inhibit multiple voting.


65 posted on 01/17/2010 1:39:37 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (Liberal Land: Where lies are true and the truth is a smear campaign.)
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To: FARS

National Review’s Corner has Brown’s speech up, and it’s a thing beauty:

http://tinyurl.com/ygzh38f


66 posted on 01/17/2010 1:40:19 PM PST by browardchad ("Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own fact." - Daniel P Moynihan)
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To: Vor Lady
Brown should of had a rally at the bridge between Lex and Con.
67 posted on 01/17/2010 1:40:26 PM PST by mad_as_he$$ (usff.com)
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To: FARS
January 17, 2010 A REPORT FROM THE SCOTT BROWN RALLY AT WORCESTER: “It’s an absolute mob scene. The police have closed off the streets. It’s mind blowing. The hall is already full, and it holds 3,000 people. There may be another 1,000 people outside.”

Meanwhile, reader Sean Fitzpatrick writes: “Pictures don’t do justice. Nothing like this in Mass since JFK. Worcester rally starts in thirty minutes and the streets are already packed.” Here’s a pic.

UPDATE: Fitzpatrick sends another picture from inside the hall, and comments: “If the Brown campaign were worried that they wouldn’t fill the hall then they needn’t have. It is standing room only and the hall management is concerned about OVERcrowding.”

I like the “Whole World Is Watching” sign at the lower left. Yep. And sometimes via cellphone pics.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Meanwhile, reportedly, Coakley can’t fill a hall. “Martha Coakley and Barack Obama held a rally today in Boston. They couldn’t fill the hall. . . . It holds 3,000 and frankly only 2,000 to 2,500 showed up.”

Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit, and PajamasMedia

68 posted on 01/17/2010 1:41:04 PM PST by GVnana ("Obama is incredibly naive and grossly egotistical." Sarkozy)
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To: FARS

Despite being told not to support RINOS:

Go Brown Go!

I’ll take a imperfect GOPer over a perfect Dim every day!


69 posted on 01/17/2010 1:43:10 PM PST by NoLibZone (Be of good cheer, could have been worse - McCain could have won! Right?)
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To: RaceBannon

Ping!

Put your photos on here!

Thanks Race!


70 posted on 01/17/2010 1:43:56 PM PST by Candor7 ((The effective weapons Again st Fascism are ridicule, derision , truth (.Member RA))
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To: Vor Lady

You are so right about the 2nd American Revolution but if you had told me a month ago it would have started in MA, I would have laughed. Now I am laughing because it is happening in MA. The best place I can think of to send a message — liberal state of MA elects a Republican Senator.


71 posted on 01/17/2010 1:44:27 PM PST by PhiKapMom (Mary Fallin - OK Gov/Rick Perry - TX Gov/Coburn/Rubio - Senate 2010 !)
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To: browardchad

WOW! What a speech!


72 posted on 01/17/2010 1:46:02 PM PST by GVnana ("Obama is incredibly naive and grossly egotistical." Sarkozy)
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To: Sally'sConcerns
Doin' the Happy Dance here, too!

Now, if only FOX would tell us they got footage of the Brown rally. :(

73 posted on 01/17/2010 1:46:50 PM PST by Timeout (Brits have the royals. Russia, the Nomenklatura. WE have our Privileged "Public Servant" class.)
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To: Bad Jack Bauer

Race is a Freeper who is in Worcester. Freeper handle RaceBannon. Last seen leading 1000 Brown supporters to an alternate venue, the main hall being full.


74 posted on 01/17/2010 1:47:24 PM PST by Candor7 ((The effective weapons Again st Fascism are ridicule, derision , truth (.Member RA))
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To: Mears

Bump


75 posted on 01/17/2010 1:48:47 PM PST by Mears
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To: FARS
I am praying that Brown wins convincingly but I still fear the ACORN/SEIU factor and stuffed ballot boxes.

The Dimwhitcrats are not going to let "The Won" become a lame duck before the 2010 elections without pulling out the stops first!

However if Brown wins then Atheists are going to have alot of explaining to do because such will be undeniable proof that there is indeed a Supreme Deity!

76 posted on 01/17/2010 1:48:47 PM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the next one...)
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To: sodpoodle
I had to turn the TV off!!!

I'm glad there are FReepers who are willing to listen and report back on Obama's television appearances because I just can't force myself to listen to his voice or look at his face. My stomach literally balls up in a knot.

He said “We cannot look back and use the same old failed policies of the past”

I think this is one of those underhanded, blame it all on Bush jabs. I don't think he has the capacity to understand the history of America. He doesn't 'get' America. During his formative years he was being raised and educated overseas so he never experienced what growing up to be a United States of America patriot is all about. I really believe he is incapable of understanding what it feels like to have your breath catch in your throat when the flag passes by and the National Anthem is being played. He has never had those feelings about anything so how can he understand freedom and independence?

77 posted on 01/17/2010 1:49:20 PM PST by Sally'sConcerns (I'M A TAGLINE!)
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To: FARS
Awesome!

We will not falter.
We will not fail.

78 posted on 01/17/2010 1:49:48 PM PST by Allegra (It doesn't matter what this tagline says...the liberals are going to call it "racist.")
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To: PhiKapMom

You’ve never walked “The Freedom Train”, have you. As strange as Mass can be at times, they were all taught our history, which is their history. Sometimes, they even remember!


79 posted on 01/17/2010 1:49:51 PM PST by WellyP
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To: NoLibZone

Bingo! You have nailed it! If people haven’t gotten a clue after watching the Blue Dogs vote with Pelosi, then it is useless. Any GOP is better then the Dems of today except in a rare instance.

Brown is light years better then Coakley.


80 posted on 01/17/2010 1:52:45 PM PST by PhiKapMom (Mary Fallin - OK Gov/Rick Perry - TX Gov/Coburn/Rubio - Senate 2010 !)
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