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Tea Party Total Head Count Thread (Post Your Attendance Numbers Here)
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 | Kristinn

Posted on 04/15/2009 3:08:47 PM PDT by kristinn

I'm hoping to be able to ascertain an overall national figure of attendance at the tea parties today by asking Freepers to post their crowd estimates on this thread.

I'm also asking that the thread be kept to just the numbers, no photos, etc., but if you want to link back to photos in your crowd estimate that's fine.

Please give the location and number of participants.

I'll go first:

Melbourne, FL - 1000.


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To: kristinn

The local news said there were about about 2500 people in Redding, CA.

Not bad for a city of 60,000 in a blue state, although Redding is still relatively red.


561 posted on 04/16/2009 9:12:18 AM PDT by hattend (Sarah Palin has run a fishing business, a city, and a state. All Obama has done is run his mouth.)
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To: Spunky
According to New Orleans Times Picayune and WDSU-TV, please list Covington, Louisiana as over 1,000 people, Metairie, Louisiana as between 1,500 and 2,000 people, Mandeville, Louisiana as over 500 people. Both sources (the newspaper and the local NBC station) are very liberal so the totals are probably much greater than those reported. Also if someone knows the total on Baton Rouge we have heard that the total was 6,000 people.
562 posted on 04/16/2009 9:18:43 AM PDT by MissMelly
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; kristinn
POF, please add to your list.

Tri-Cities, Washington (Pasco, Kennewick, Richland) had over 1000 at their peak.

Tri-City protests target taxation

This is a newspaper article so won't be able to view after today.

563 posted on 04/16/2009 9:35:42 AM PDT by Spunky
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To: MissMelly

Not sure if these have been reported but here we go.

Yorba Linda, California. 500
Mission Viejo, California. 200


564 posted on 04/16/2009 9:36:32 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: kristinn

Change in Ft. Lauderdale protest, per WFOR and/or WTVJ tv stations: 5,000.

Frankly, I think that is kind of HIGH...but it’d be great if true.


565 posted on 04/16/2009 9:36:43 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (I'm SO glad I no longer belong to the party of Dependence on Government!)
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To: kristinn

The Villages, Florida

over 1,000

count from newspaper report:

http://thevillagesdailysun.com/articles/2009/04/16/news/news02.txt


566 posted on 04/16/2009 9:37:08 AM PDT by empressword
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To: MissMelly
Also if someone knows the total on Baton Rouge we have heard that the total was 6,000 people

I was at Baton Rouge. I talked to an old political friend of mine who's been around a while and knows crowds. His estimate was "better than 2,000." I don't think the 6,000 number would be accurate.

567 posted on 04/16/2009 9:38:58 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: luckystarmom
10 times that for the 5pm tea party, so 2000.

even though San Jose is a big city, those numbers are not too bad considering how liberal my beloved hometown is...

568 posted on 04/16/2009 9:40:05 AM PDT by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; MissMelly

POF, I think MissMelly meant to direct these numbers at #562 to you for your list at #420, since I have nothing to do with the list.


569 posted on 04/16/2009 9:42:35 AM PDT by Spunky
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To: Scarpetta

I sure can. Where shall I send it. I send one of me too. Perhaps you will recognize me from the party


570 posted on 04/16/2009 9:51:25 AM PDT by PosterPoster
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To: LadyPilgrim

I see the numbers are posted. It was a great turn out with very little notice and very little time to organize....not to mention such a small city :-)


571 posted on 04/16/2009 10:06:26 AM PDT by mtnwmn (Liberalism leads to Socialism)
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To: Minn. 4 Bush

10,000 in St. Paul?? That’s great but sheesh, how does that explain electing a travesty like Franken?????


572 posted on 04/16/2009 11:11:32 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (Introducing Pretender-in-Chief Barack Hussein Obama and the First Cow.)
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To: davidosborne

Wildcats and Flint Hills bump!

(I used to live there)


573 posted on 04/16/2009 11:17:57 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (Introducing Pretender-in-Chief Barack Hussein Obama and the First Cow.)
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To: Henchster

Nationwide or in CA?


574 posted on 04/16/2009 11:19:46 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (Introducing Pretender-in-Chief Barack Hussein Obama and the First Cow.)
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To: kristinn

Yreka, Siskiyou County, California

(photo)

A large crowd gathered at Lower Greenhorn Park on a sunny, chilly late afternoon Wednesday for the Yreka Tax Day Tea Party, which was held along with tea parties throughout the U.S. in conjunction with the April 15 tax-filing deadline, to protest what organizer John Dunn stated is “extreme spending and continually raised taxes” on the part of the federal government. Speakers at the Yreka event included Anthony Intiso, Dunn, Lyle Sauget and Tamara Brown. Above, organizers collect tea bags from the crowd. Tags from the bags will be sent to Washington, D.C. as a form of protest statement regarding federal tax policy.

http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/news/x126898900/-Taxed-Enough-Already


575 posted on 04/16/2009 11:24:02 AM PDT by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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To: justsaynomore

Thanks for those totals, I’m sure it will be a few days before all is figured.


576 posted on 04/16/2009 11:26:16 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (Introducing Pretender-in-Chief Barack Hussein Obama and the First Cow.)
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To: freekitty; flat; unkus; Free ThinkerNY; TXRed; SouthTexas; ZULU; rodguy911; romanesq; ...

PING

Yeah, San Antonio and Sacramento had the same size crowd.


577 posted on 04/16/2009 11:31:30 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: kristinn

The Sacramento Tea Party was huge. People came from as far away as Oregon to attend. There were a lot of veterans, God bless our military! Neil Cavuto’s staff, that walked among the crowd and talked to us, were very nice and polite unlike the CNN shrews.

News flash for media types and politicians, there were Democrats around us who were just as angry and were protesting Zero and members of the US Congress. The crowd in Sacramento did not consist of just Republicans.


578 posted on 04/16/2009 11:38:07 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: justsaynomore

ME Portland 800

ME Bangor 600


579 posted on 04/16/2009 11:42:12 AM PDT by Chickensoup ("Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.")
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To: kristinn

CNN wasn’t at the Sacramento Tea Party, I was referring to the YouTube CNN reporting. Just wanted to clarify what I posted.


580 posted on 04/16/2009 11:44:25 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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