Hundreds Brave Rain at Colorado Teaparty 9-12 (Video)

Just a few facts about our organizational efforts for this teaparty:

I spent two months and approx. 205 volunteer hours planning this event. All time donated for free. I also spent $520.00 out of pocket for the sound and light system rental, batteries, and blank CD's.

We had a team of people who donated as yet uncounted volunteer hours helping with the logistics of this event.

We had pledged donations of $275.00 before the event (I have yet to see any of this money), and we collected $120.00 at one of our planning meetings, and in our donation bin at the actual event we collected $185.00. We did not charge for booth space at our event, and the permit from the Denver Capitol was free.

All speakers, our national anthem contest winner Andrea Chase, and our security team drove themselves to our event (And in Andreas case - flew to Colorado from texas with her mother), and all of them donated their time to make this event a success!

No one was paid anything for helping, they all did it because they wanted to step up and spend time, money, and resources on the Defense of Liberty.

Jenny Hatch

Jenny, thank you for all your efforts. That was an excllent Tea Party and great video. You did good, actually great!

I would love to see a thread started showing the tea party attendance numbers at each city this past weekend.

Jenny, its a big club. I have been handing our parchment Declarations of Independence for several years; that is out of my pocket as well and those things are not cheap.

At least we did not have to wage as much as those signers did.

You’re doing the right thing. Stand tall and smile. Big things do not happen unless big people, like you, are involved.

“Jenny, thank you for all your efforts. That was an excllent Tea Party and great video. You did good, actually great!

I would love to see a thread started showing the tea party attendance numbers at each city this past weekend.”

I have been REALLY pleased with our local coverage, here is a nine news story - video that I could not post because of Gannett Rules: http://www.9news.com/news/politics_govt/article.aspx?storyid=123138&catid=166&GID=CC6t2T/wYrc/1BBVbXzJINPr2jwkGNdsZRw/xOE1pdw%3D

and the actual video link: http://www.9news.com/video/default.aspx?maven_playerId=newsarticleplayer&maven_referralObject=1251815564

I really could not have been more surprised to get this kind of coverage - the man in the video is Tony Gillis, who was my co-organizer. He just did a fabulous job as our MC for the party and this interview was awesome!

Our Media Coordinator Bruce Miller is the one who made it all happen, he worked for HOURS getting out press releases and making it happen. Teamwork!!

Jen

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