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.
Ping
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bumpity bump bump
Made me feel so nostalgic (not).
Lots of good signs today.
Leni
Amazing!
thank you roos girl, seekthetruth, for all your hard work!
It was an incredible turnout! there must’ve been 5000 people there!? I don’t really have a clue how many, but huge turnout.
spacejunkie!!
Nice crowd, great job!
Bumpity Bump bump!
Awesome!!!
GREAT JOB!
great pictures thank you, hopefully this is a start of the rest of the country waking up to the biased media and the dumb arse clueless idiot obama and his storm troopers
How Sweet it Is! Great job, and thanks mostly to FReepers like you. The Obama and the press CAN NOT keep ignoring crowds like these.
I got there around 12:45 with my hubby and searched for the FR table but the crowds were so large that I couldn’t find it. Even so, I had a great time and was very impressed with the turnout! What a great event!
It was great to meet you and so many Florida Freepers! Hubby and I really enjoyed the day! He even helped Roos_girl and I get the table decorated when he stopped talking to folks nearby!:) And thanks Roos_girl for posting photos so quickly! Know there will be some more posted from fellow Florida Freepers.
It was special too that we got to meet Kristin and hear him represent FreeRepublic.com on the stage!
I feel certain we will have lots of new members come on board at FreeRepublic! Sure looking forward to our Florida Freeper Convention in April! See you then I hope! :)
Terrific pics. And a beautiful day, too. I looked everywhere but could not find the FR table. Where was it? I circled the park area twice in search of it.
Most of us outside the amphitheater “pit” — and most of the crowd WAS outside — couldn’t hear much or see anyone on the stage, but everyone seemed to have a wonderful time, anyway, seeing all the people and the signs.
I heard two estimates of crowd size, one from a fireman, another from the police department. It’ll take a while, yet, to get a more official estimate, I think.
How about this, not a bad turn out. Yeeeeehaw
Hi! Facing the amphitheater, all the group tables were along the left side close to the lake. In fact, so close if we backed up a little we would have been in the lake! The crowd was so large folks were standing on the walkway in front of all the tables. Perhaps that is why you didn’t notice all of us. :)
Sorry we missed you! See you at the Florida Freeper Convention in April! :)
WONDERFUL! Congratulations to all of you Florida FReepers.
C’est dommage! I did look in that area, but I didn’t go down to the very end couple of tables, as I didn’t see a banner. Oh, well. Next time!
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