Posted on 02/11/2016 4:59:52 AM PST by nikos1121
Thursday, February 11, 2016: GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in Baton Rouge, LA at the Baton Rouge River Center. The event is scheduled to begin at 7:00 PM CST.
As the "Capital City", Baton Rouge is the political hub for Louisiana, and is the second-largest metropolitan city in the state, with an estimated population of 228,895 as of 2014. The metropolitan area surrounding the city, known as Greater Baton Rouge, had a population of 820,159 people as of 2013.The urban area has around 594,309 inhabitants.
HOW DID BATON ROUGE GET ITS NAME?
The French name le baton rouge ("the red stick") is the translation of a native term rendered as Istrouma, possibly a corruption of the Choctaw iti humma ("red pole") Andre Joseph Penicaut, a carpenter traveling with d'Iberville, published the first full-length account of the expedition in 1723. According to Penicaut,
"From there [Manchacq] we went five leagues higher and found very high banks called ecorts in that region, and in savage called Istrouma which means red stick [baton rouge], as at this place there is a post painted red that the savages have sunk there to mark the land line between the two nations, namely: the land of the Bayagoulas which they were leaving and the land of another nation—thirty leagues upstream from the baton rouge named the Oumas."
THE BATON ROUGE RIVER CENTER
At this time, I have no idea if the event will be in the large arena or the theater.
Hmmmm....we have work to do!
The poll change happened after IA.
yes take THAT Levin!
Levin's been saying that back when Trump was sending campaign contributions to Clinton, Pelosi, Schumer, Weiner, etc.
Nice that Trump is now agreeing with Levin on that view.
I was at the FR inaugural ball in 2001 too. It was wonderful evening !!! Never forget it .
Good!
Those are all great endorsements!
We’re workin on it
It’s okay....we’ll work on Texas (and so will Sara!)
No, that was my add to his line
When Jesse Helms was running for Senate against the black mayor of Charlotte, I paid a grand and sat across the table from them at a fundraiser for Jesse in Wilmington. Got to talk with him and was glad to find him as personable, intelligent, and diehard conservative.
Jesse won!
WALL WALL WALL WALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who Is Going to Pay For the Wall?!!!
MEXICO!!!
We will build a wall—repeats three times.
Crowd goes wild.
Asks who is going to pay for the wall?
Crowd yells” MEXICO”
LOL...you’re probably right! :-)
Wouldn’t it be fun again? I heard the band was great!
Subscribe51,353
Add to Share More 12,810 watching now
You forgot the “/s” tag...
Oh, how we will party through this inauguration!!!!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.