Posted on 03/21/2009 4:19:17 PM PDT by Roos_Girl
What a great event! Lisa Feroli and the gang hosting the event did a fantastic job of organizing.
The Tea Party was supposed to last from noon to 2pm. I got there around 10am and met up with SeekTheTruth and her hubby and we started getting set up. There was a good number of people already there. Fantastic job and a big Thank You to Freeper "surfer" who ordered and donated a 3' x 8' banner with the simple message www.FreeRepublic.com. And well done and Thank You to Freeper MinuteGal for supplying business cards with Free Republic information, all of which were handed out!
We had a good number of people stop by the table that either were already Freepers or who said they were regular viewers and every one of them commented that Free Republic was the best conservative forum on the web!
There was a lot of talk about Glen Beck showing up, but he did not. However, our own Kristinn Taylor was the last speaker of the day and (not being biased or anything) Matchett-PI and I thought they saved the best for last. This is a list of the other speakers:
Tom Gaitens, Florida coordinator, FreedomWorks
Nathan Pick, Americans for Tax Reform
Harry Mihet, Senior Litigation Counsel, Liberty Counsel
Jon H. Gutmacher Esq, local attorney and second amendment expert
Andrea Shea King internet radio talk show host
SeekTheTruth was kind enough to supply a disposable camera and the pictures I took with it are posted below. I stayed at the Free Republic table most of the time, except to get a closer seat when Kristinn was speaking. There was such a huge crowd I was mostly trying capture the number of people there and had to do that by just holding the camera up over my head and hoping I was catching something good! Hopefully some other Freepers will post their pictures too and add their comments about their experience from their vantage points.
I was too far away to get a good photo, but this is Kristinn speaking and chargin up the crowd.
It was a pleasure to meet you and to mix it up with all the FReepers that participated in the Tea Party.
It's people like you that make these things happen with success!
FRegards!
I would attend more events like this if my work schedule permitted it, I normally work Saturdays. I had taken this week off work since I was recovering from injuries sustained in an accident on my motorcycle. If it wasn't for the accident, I probably couldn't have been there, somehow things just worked out!
Here is one more picture; Bud asked all the speakers to join him together on stage at the end.
Orlando is hardly South Florida. Central Florida, excepting Orange County, Orlando, is relatively conservative. The crowd was polite, yet raucous. What a great time.
“Here is Llyod Marcus singing his song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfPhhcY9_LE";
Thanks! And here is Lloyd’s song with the words. Love it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1byTDgu7iA
Hey Martci..thanks for the great pics of the back of my head..LOL
And a fabulous back of head you have! ;)
Thanks for your efforts on getting this together...it was really great to be there and part of ALL of this!
lol...seekthetruth makes really great candy!!!
My apologies about placing Orlando in South Florida but as a Panhandle Floridian, anything under Tallahassee is considered south. : ) Considering McCain/Palin won my county by 73% and Obama/Biden won Orange County by 59%, from my point on the map, you all down there had a magnificent showing in what we up here consider a liberal region. You are absolutely right, of course, about your area when compared to what’s generally considered South Florida. Again, congratulations on all the hard work in Central Florida!
I know exactly how you feel. I think anybody north of I-4 is a Yankee!
The recipe just went to you! :)
Also wanted to let everyone know the Bud Hedinger show is on now and great, as usual!
http://540wfla.com/cc-common/ondemand/player.html?world=st
Bud is going to talk about the scroll coming up and how folks who did not get to sign it can do so. Perhaps through email, don’t know. My hubby and I did not get to sign it and really wanted to!
Also, Lloyd Marcus will have an interview on FOX tomorrow at 10:30AM! He was terrific and just love his song!
Just heard you on the radio with Bud and Lisa, Jeannie. Great job!
Those who missed it can listen on line later when WHDOTV re-airs the first two hours of the show between 7 and 9 tonight. People can find you in the last 1/2 of 4-5PM hour.
WHDOTV-38 - We’re Central to Florida!
http://www.whdotv.com/
WHDO-TV38 is Central Florida’s all new, all local, all high definition television station committed to providing our community with locally produced shows geared toward your interests and central to your lives. From high school and professional sporting events to exercise shows; from gardening programs to shows that will take you to little known places of interest in Central Florida...it’s all about pure local entertainment and lifestyles! In addition, WHDO is presenting Central Florida with its very own informative and entertaining local talk show! All of this, along with educational, fun children’s programs and more will make WHDO-TV central to the lives of, the viewers in Central Florida. WHDO-TV will produce and present relevant, quality television programming designed to engage and entertain viewers of all ages!
Lots of pictures at Bud’s web site here:
http://www.540wfla.com/pages/bud_hedinger.html
Free Republic’s table is shown in the first gallery of pictures listed - picture # 12.
Meant to ping you to #113 too!
Just sent this heads up to Bud Headinger:
Hi Bud!
Just wanted to give you a heads up on this. Glenn Beck started talking about the Orlando tea party after he came back from the break about 5 minutes ago.
bttt
5 minutes ago, Glenn Beck just mentioned the Orlando rally again and said that he’s working on getting the 4 moms that organized the tea party on his show tomorrow.
I emailed Bud again to let him know. bttt
Couldn’t wait to get home and post to you that I heard you on Bud’s show. You were great! Thanks for mentioning FreeRepublic and Marci.
Thanks! Was great to get to talk to Bud and to thank Lisa for organizing the Tea Party. Also was glad I got to give our FR credit to Marci for getting FreeRepublic in on the event! We all worked as a team to get the word out about FR and bet we helped to get lots of Floridians to come on board!
I can’t take any more credit than anyone else that showed up. You are correct that we all worked as a team. I just brought the table and tried to delegate since I wasn’t sure I was going to make it. And I can’t tell you how glad I was that I was able to be there!
Apparently Channel 13 news did revise their story to update the attendence to between 5000 - 6000 people. I commented on their online story that the attendance numbers were incorrect and Michael Westfall from the station emailed me back asking for a reference on the numbers. I directed him to the City manager of the Ampitheater, per Shelly/Lisa, and OPD agreed on the numbers that actually showed up. I’m glad to hear that Michael followed through and Channel 13 corrected their numbers.
Yes, I am glad that they revised their numbers to reflect the truth! Believed they realized that too many folks knew the truth once they received calls and emails.
So happy to hear that Lisa and Shelly will be on Glenn Beck’s show tomorrow. Also that Lloyd Marcus will be doing an interview on FOX tomorrow morning at 10:30 concerning the Tea Party song he wrote. I will be sure to watch tomorrow morning and Glenn’s show tomorrow evening! :)
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