Tea Party Total Head Count Thread (Post Your Attendance Numbers Here)

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

I'm hoping to be able to ascertain an overall national figure of attendance at the tea parties today by asking Freepers to post their crowd estimates on this thread.

I'm also asking that the thread be kept to just the numbers, no photos, etc., but if you want to link back to photos in your crowd estimate that's fine.

Please give the location and number of participants.

I'll go first:

Melbourne, FL - 1000.

[topfile]

I bet Roanoke Va. had even more than 750!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2230159/posts

[mentor2k]

Grab your ankles, LOL.

[Qathleen]

Live Oak, FL had 650 attendees.
(The population of the county is about 40,000.)

[clintonh8r]

Does anyone know if RINO Crist showed up at any Florida rallies?

[Qathleen]

Lake City, FL had 550 people at it’s afternoon TEA party.

[FreedomPoster]

>>I was there and counted (guestimated) 700. The Stinky Inky reported 200 people with 20 signs.

I was telling people around me at the ATL rally to take the number in the paper tomorrow and double it.

[TriGirl]

We were only supposed to have about 700 people at our in The Woodlands, TX But there were probably 3,000!!

[acw011]

I can concur, Madison had 8k at least.. A Dane Co. Sheriff I talked to said they were prepared for 5k, he figured this was much more..

Unv. Police and Dane Co. Officers were awesome.

Our event was AWESOME!! in MADISON!!!!!!!!!!

[acsrp38]

About 1,000 in Omaha, also two other that I know of in the Omaha metro area. Papillion and Millard.

Local TV showed pics of the Papillion (Sarpy County Court House) but barely mentioned the others

[government is the beast]

Providence, RI about 2500

[clintonh8r]

Excellent.

[janipa]

Congratulations Madison! My kids are there. I am sure they didnt attend, but they probably couldnt help but notice.

[Kirkwood]

Hooray for The Woodlands, my old hometown!

[\/\/ayne]

In Tucson, AZ police reports estimated about 3,800 at the peak, leaders estimated about 7,000 altogether with people coming and going. Interestingly, the Tucson Tea Party will continue with a booth at the Pima County Fair for the next 10 days where we will have the banner and signs. Passersby will receive a two sided handout explaining about the Tea Party and How to Write Government!

[Michael Eden]

Good idea for a post:

Palm Desert, California had TWO tea party events:

1st event beginning at noon: local Channel 2 (KPSP) 5 pm news reported over 1,500 people in attendance - matched by TWELVE counter-protesters. The web site reports “There were thousands on hand for that event at noon.”
http://www.kpsplocal2.com/Global/story.asp?S=10174985&nav=menu412_2

They reported that 200 people were at the sister event in Palm Springs.

2nd event 5:30pm - Did not attend and have not heard a tally - but was expected to be even better attended than today’s.

[Altura Ct.]

I wouldn’t be surprised. It was definitely a good sized and enthusiastic crowd!

[kristinn]

Thanks for the rolling estimates, Henchster. Ron, I'm guessing at least a million nationwide, likely a lot more given the number of people reported in so far.

Please keep the reports coming in !!!

[kristinn]

How many in Viera?

[acw011]

If they are downtown or on campus, they noticed.

[American Quilter]

The officer closest to me kept a poker face while slowly turning out the inside flap of his jacket where he’d safety-pined.........a TEA BAG!

That is so great!