...this time with images from photographer Michael Smith:
...they were greeted by members of the Hollywood Resistance Force (a.k.a. the L.A. Chapter of the Free Republic Network) - and a few of our FRiends...As has been the case for MANY of our recent FReeps in southern California, we were joined by quite a few "not yet FReepers" - who are not (yet) registered to post on this forum.
Some I know by name, and some I recognize from previous encounters.Plus there ALWAYS seem to be "new faces" who heard about us from a friend, or via a forwarded e-mail.
Here is the "honor roll" for this rally - as best I can remember it.
FReepers:doodleladyFRiends:
daviddennis
Joy Angela
RonDogGenevieve (and Al) from LAforBush.comPlus, SPECIAL THANKS to our FReep photographers for this event:
Shane Smith, Michael - and many OTHER Santa Monica College Republicans
Ryan Darby, welchguy - and many OTHER College Republicans
Ronn Pickard - my loyal strategy and tactics advisor
Foad, Frances - and OTHER Iranian-Americans
Jesse - from the recent pro-Bush rally at the Santa Monica airport (in his cowboy hat)
Susan - and her DARLING daughter Elizabeth ("Lulu")
Two lovely young pro-Bush ladies - and their wonderful pro-Bush mother
Alan, Edward, Grace, Desiree - and MANY other "first-timers" who gave me their e-mail adddresses
Martha and John - who FReeped them from INSIDE the hotel.David H. Dennis
Ari Greenwald
Michael Smith(If I MISSED reporting your name here, please accept my apology.....and please CONTACT ME - A.S.A.P. - at ronsmith@quixnet.net)
A SALUTE to the Hollywood Resistance Force and friends who so effectively freeped Flip-Flop Kerry! Thanks for the great reporting and wonderful photos.
...this time with images from photographer Michael Smith:
Jesse - from the recent pro-Bush rally at the Santa Monica airport (in his cowboy hat)
See also, from the THIS thread:
"Welcome Back, W!" HUNDREDS rally near Santa Monica airport to support President Bush
– new PHOTOS!
FREEP REPORT: FReepers defend America's honor from leftist scum in Santa Monica ^ | August 16, 2004 | RonDog [and FRiends]
Posted on 08/16/2004 10:27:53 PM PDT by RonDog
Last Thursday afternoon, HUNDREDS of happy, smiling, flag-waving patriotic Americans gathered outside a "private, secret" fundraiser at the Santa Monica airport to welcome President Bush back to Los Angeles, for his first visit to southern California since March 2004.Two very highly repected sources independently calculated that over FIFTEEN HUNDRED people overwhelmed the intersection of 31st Street and Ocean Park Boulevard in Santa Monica, just north of the hanger in which President Bush, Laura Bush and Governor Schwarzenegger appeared at a private fundraiser which had not been widely publicized until a few days before the event -- with the crowd outside roughly divided into half pro-Bush and half anti-Bush.
On a Thursday afternoon.
In Santa Monica...-- snip --
"Lonestar" Jesse with his cowboy hat and bullhorn...Our corner had the benefit of a five foot tall transformer box......which could be used as a "soap box," as it were......for the folks on OUR side to stand on......so that they could TOWER over the crowd...Here are a few of the "natural leaders" who assumed command of that platform:...and intimidate the "bad guys."
image courtesy of Thomas Fenady
image courtesy of Gary AminoffCLICK HERE for the rest of that thread
