Tea Party Express II: REPORTS FROM THE ROAD, November 8TH

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Road Report from Darla Dawald - ResistNet/Grassfire

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Darla Dawald on the Road with the Tea Party Express II

Friday November 6th I joined the Tea Party Express in the great state of Texas representing Resistnet and Grassfire. The Texas Patriots were great and as expected showed up for the rallies in number and form from Austin to Houston, and Beaumont!

The Next stop was Baton Rouge where the people were feisty due to a 215-220 vote in the House of Representatives last night approving their version of the health care bill. It is maddening and de-motivating…..however, it is not the final word and we can still KILL the BILL! Furthermore, we should be proud that we converted the yes votes from the Bluedogs from 39 to only 5 yes votes yesterday. You were all dedicated and stayed the course and I am so proud to be associated with you.

At every rally when it’s my time to speak I inform the people about the difficulty we experienced in DC last week while trying to deliver petitions to the Senators. I share that we had to hire a courier to deliver the petitions due to the inept and unconstitutional actions taken by the security at the Senate buildings. I have spoken to the people about Flip this House and taking back our country in 2010 using Flip and the precinct strategy.

I encourage them to become involved and engaged and fight every step of the way. We cannot allow the Chicago thuggery who hijacked our country to remain in power and we have to use our vote to change it. I remind them to do this we have to come out in great numbers and bring others with us and we must remain dedicated to educating the masses along the way.

My message has been well received and I have met many Resistnet and Grassfire members along the way. As a matter of fact our own Streetsweeper met us in Houston and has been on the road following us along with many other people from stop to stop!

I feel blessed to be a part of this great team of people crossing the country to spread an encouraging message to stand up and unite and take our country back to the people! People appreciate the Tea Party Express II coming to their town and the dedication of all who are involved in the movement. We appreciate the many people that take time to support the cause and the movement. People are waking up in great numbers and only by working together can we affect long term change to restore our country and put it back on the right path of a Constitutional Republic.

One of my favorite portions of our event is the tribute to our veterans and armed forces. It is a moving, patriotic tribute and every one there seems to be affected by it. We owe a great deal of our freedoms to our veterans, armed forces and their families. Many who have sacrificed their lives for the very freedom we and others in the world enjoy today because America is about freedom!

We have a lot of work to do yet and we must remain dedicated to follow through by educating ourselves, our circles of influence, and those we can reach out to. We must be vigilant and steadfast and together, arm in arm, shoulder to shoulder, step by step….We will restore our American Republic.

God Bless,
Darla Dawald
National Coordinator
http://www.grassfire.org/ and http://www.resistnet.com/

A Giant Rally in Beautiful Beaumont, TX

Last night's rally in Beaumont, TX was especially meaningful as it came about while the House of Representatives was lining up the votes to pass the Pelosi-Obama government-run healthcare scheme.

We're here in Louisiana with a lot of our friends!

We've arrived at the Louisiana State Capitol and people are fired up - and mad - about the House's passage of government-run healthcare last night.

Here's the scene from Baton Rouge - the rally is continuing even as I'm posting this update:

Saturday, November 7, 2009

WOW!

WOW HOUSTON!

We just left our awesome Houston rally where thousands were on hand. The picture below tells the story. We've also briefly split up the 2 buses.

The red bus crossed town to protest the American Medical Association outside of their convention in Houston. The blue bus is continuing on with most of the team to Beaumont, TX for our rally there. The red bus will then join us for the middle of the rally and we'll all be reunited again. But check out Houston:

We'll be posting more and more updates from the past few days and today throughout the evening. So keep checking back!

And let us hope our phone calls and emails are working and that we can defeat this House vote on socialized government-run healthcare tonight!

Wow!!! Brenham, TX "Whistle Stop" is Huge!

Hi everyone, I have to get you all caught up with the reports from our rallies in Lubbock, Abilene, Waco (Whistle Stop) and Austin.

But today has started off with a huge bang!

Washington - can you hear the people of Brenham, TX? Because they have a message for you: they've had enough with you ignoring them and pushing through a socialistic agenda of big government.

We were only going to do a quick meet-and-greet with shaking some hands and saying hello to the folks of Brenham - a true "whistle stop" that was a quick in-and-out.

But something happened on the way to Brenham - several hundred people turned out in this small, sleepy town. So we brought out Deborah, Mark, William Owens and Lloyd Marcus for a quick Tea Party Express rally. People came up to us with tears in their eyes and thanked us so much for taking the time to come to their little community and rally the people together.

We'll have more later!

Friday, November 6, 2009

Amarillo, Texas - What great people!

We had a great rally in Amarillo (yes, I know it seems like we say just about every rally has been great - but they truly have been). There were 4 counter protestors who tried to march through the crowd and disrupt the event, but we pointed out to them that we conservatives DO believe in freedom of speech and tolerance.

So we allowed them to stand to the side and hold their signs (after there was a brief discussion between some of our supporters from Amarillo and them) and we pointed out to them that unlike the thugs of SEIU and ACORN they weren't going to be in harms way - unlike the way SEIU union thugs beat up Kenneth Gladney for simply trying to sell his Gadsden "Don't Tread on Me" flags outside Mel Carnahan's Town Hall in St. Louis.

After the rally was over we were inundated with people coming up to us and thanking us for what we do. We were provided water, coffee, and endless handshakes. And we were reminded why we really admire the people of Amarillo - they are good people, and it was an honor to stand with them in this fight to take our country back!