Tea Party Total Head Count Thread (Post Your Attendance Numbers Here)

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 | Kristinn

[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.

[DocRock]

Add 500 in Bowling Green, KY

500 noted in this article

[BobS]

I lived in Kansas while AF. You have farmers that grow big corn there which are meant for livestock. Grab a big ear of corn from a farm there and bite into it. It's sweet and just big right off the stalk.

We should be eating those first. Not making corn booze. The animals can eat the small ones we don't eat.

[nuconvert]

BUMP

The total headcount needs to be distributed widely and repeated as often as possible.

[quincysbuddy]

i attended the tea party in Laurel DE. It was 40 degrees, raining and blowing 40 mph. We had about 200 people. There were also tea partys held in Dover, DE. about 450 attended. Georgetown DE. 257 signed petition. wilmington DE. 850 est. Middletown DE. about 300. All the estimates were from Delaware tea party site

[KansasGirl]

LOL. Trust me, I know all about Kansas corn. I grew up on a farm and so did my husband!

[Steve Schulin]

Huntsville, Texas - 50
Ref: http://www.aipnews.com/talk/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=3911

[KansasGirl]

Burleson, TX—500 people

http://video.star-telegram.videos.vmixcore.com/vmix_hosted_apps/p/media?id=3796426

[KansasGirl]

Arlington, TX—1,200 people

http://conservativepabulum.vox.com/library/post/tea-party-arlington-texas.html

[Vieja]

Ruidoso, New Mexico (per Ruidoso News 4/16/09)

Expected by organizers, 25-50

Estimated actual attendance, "at least 300"

[Henchster]

Thanks everyone, we are now up to 44 states plus D.C., 442 cities, and between 580,000 and 658,000 patriots. We need some input from FReepers in North and South Dakota, Wyoming, Hawaii, Vermont and Montana.

You can check to see if your tea party is listed HERE if not, post a comment on this thread citing the city, state and headcount.

[KansasGirl]

Logan, Utah—100-150 people (estimate from pic)

http://hjnews.townnews.com/articles/2009/04/16/news/news01-04-16-19.txt

[quincysbuddy]

see post 784 for Delaware four towns that you dont have

[Henchster]

Added, thanks!

[KansasGirl]

Provo, Utah—atleast 100 probably 300-400 and maybe more. Blogger didn’t give and overall crowd estimate total. Just counted the front layer and said their were many more.

http://truepoliticsusa.blogspot.com/2009/04/tea-party-pictures.html

[Atlas Sneezed]

The Carson City NV newspaper called it both “thousands” and “an estimated 1500”.

I’d have put it at 2-4000 over the day, more if you count 2-1/2 hours of supportive honking and waving drive-thru “participants.”

[KansasGirl]

St. George, Utah—2500

http://www.thespectrum.com/article/20090416/NEWS01/90416002

[BobS]

Well, don't you think we should we should be eating the biggest ears of corn possible first? It's a fruit. The scrawny ones sold in CA supermarkets are what livestock should eat.

I went to a coastal farm in Ventura and gave the farm manager $10 for a cardboard box. I filled it with the tallest asparagus I can pick. The tallest was 2 feet. Mmm. Those farms are measured in sq miles.

[WVNan]

I don’t know were to get the figures, but there were parties in Beckley, WV, Charles Town, WV, Wheeling, WV, Parkersburg, WV, and Martinsburg, WV. Somebody help. I know those towns had parties.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I was at the Frederick rally. It looked like there were several hundred people, but it could have gone as high as a thousand. We had a lot of people, in spite of the heavy rain.

[DocRock]

Burlington, KY 100
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Danville, KY 180
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Flatwood, KY 100
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Frankfort, KY 250
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Richmond, KY 220
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Henderson, KY 100
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Lexington – Nicholasville, KY 250
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London, KY 100+
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Summerset, KY 100
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