After Action Report: Orlando Tea Party

March 21, 2009 | RoosGirl

[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.

[DocRock]

Fox News is going to cover some of the Orlando Tea Party soon. Their ‘teaser’ said withing the next hour they will have the theme song for the Tea Party with the singer. That would be before 10:30 AM Eastern... Just wanted to give a heads up.

[CRBDeuce]

The segment of the Huckabee show that I found most interesting was Huckabee show segment on credit restoration. Great that Fox gives the 'Tea Party's a voice. So non-media like! Hope the Obama FCC doesn't pull their license!

[seekthetruth]

Yes, it was. Was your son in that segment or at the beginning of the show? :)

[Humal]

Glenn Beck had two of the moms on T.V. last night, and Fox and Friends is going to have a segment on about it soon. It seems that the Orlando Tea Party has brought the “Tea Party” concept to the rest of the country. They are just a bunch of “right wing nuts”, but a group of concerned citizens.

[Justa]

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