Posted on 03/08/2009 3:06:03 AM PDT by abb
They're revolting. Families with children, bikers, seniors, pirates - by the thousands descended on a Fullerton bar Saturday to join talk show hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou of KFI in protesting tax increases recently approved in Sacramento.
Police estimated that some 8,000 people came to the Slidebar Café in downtown Fullerton to listen to The John & Ken Show.
"I expected a lot and it was way more than I expected," said co-host John Kobylt. The talk show hosts put forward an ambitious goal for their Tax Revolt 2009 live broadcast that ran for more than three hours.
"The purpose is to vote down Prop 1A on May 19 because it's a two-year tax extension," said Kobylt. "The purpose is to tell people how their Republican legislators lie about their votes. The purpose is to get support to recall Schwarzennegger, (Assemblyman) Anthony Adams, (Assemblyman) Jeff Miller, and everybody else."
Some wore buttons. One man brought a bloody effigy head of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and waved it from the end of a pike, while the crowd joined their hosts in a chant of "Repeal, recall, revolt."
Many in the crowd held up cameras to capture a big hit as VHS cassettes, DVDs, laser discs, an action hero lunchbox and other memorabilia from the governor's Hollywood career, were piled up and smashed with a sledgehammer.
Johanna Common, 45, of Fullerton, pushed her way to the front of the crowd to contribute her copy of the Schwarzenegger movie "Total Recall" to the pile.
"I wanted to see it smashed to smithereens," she said. When all is done, Common plans to get involved in recalling her local representative, Assemblyman Michael Duvall, she said.
Like many others, Kimberly Smith, 29, of Tustin, sported a button showing how much more she'll have to pay...
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Not a waste of time... think of these Tea Parties as the matches to light the torches!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2202075/posts
Went to “We Surround Them” event in Holyoke MA
Tea party bump!
"Wast of time."
Take your defeatism and go suck on your thumb in a fetal position somewhere else. Oh, BTW, it's spelled waste.
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