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.

[KansasGirl]

Billings, Montana—article just says “hundreds”—200-400 people

http://www.kulr8.com/news/local/43072742.html

[Henchster]

Thanks everyone, we are now up to 45 states plus D.C., 458 cities, and between 587,000 and 665,000 patriots! We still need info from North and South Dakota, Wyoming, Vermont and Hawaii.

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.

[Aloysius88]

Port Huron, Michigan 1327 people according to the organizers and reported in the Times Herald.

[KansasGirl]

Bozeman, MT—(local news report just says “hundreds”)
500 people for conservative estimate—video shows large crowd

Helena, MT—200 people

http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/Global/story.asp?S=10072152

Great Falls, MT—500 people (report also says “hundreds”) Pictures show large crowd.

http://www.kpax.com/Global/story.asp?S=10184390

Local media reports say repeatedly that this is “1 of 20 events going on throughout Montana today.”

Kilispell, MT—100 people

http://www.kpax.com/Global/story.asp?S=10184390

Polson. MT—300 people

http://www.kpax.com/Global/story.asp?S=10193941

[KansasGirl]

I’ve been searching the internet for local media reports. I usually start by checking to see if the town has a local paper. For example, google “Martisburg, WV newspaper.” You can also google the town name and “tea party.” There are also sites that list all newspapers in a state by town and title.

[KansasGirl]

Fort Benton, MT—60 people

http://www.kfbb.com/news/local/43063827.html

[ThirdMate]

Thanks for the photos of the Clear Lake protest. I believe the Clear Lake park had to be one of the most scenic protest locations.

[DocRock]

Bartow, FL - 350

LINK

[steve0]

Abingdon, Virginia 24211, unk headcount I wasn’t there. I am certain the local paper(weekly) or Bristol Herald Courier would have covered it or given a headcount. Do you have some cut off for counting small cities and towns?

[steve0]

626,604? You know we only need 300 to defend ourselves against a Tyrant! See Battle of Thermopylae at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae

[Tigercap]

Kalamazoo, Michigan

1050

[KansasGirl]

Hamilton, MT—400 people
Stevensville, MT 200 people

http://www.ravallirepublic.com/articles/2009/04/17/news/news62.txt

(again article says hundreds)

Missoula , MT—atleast 500 people

http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2009/04/16/news/local/news01.txt

Livingston, MT—??

Billings, MT—500 people

http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/04/16/news/local/18-taxrally.txt

Cheyenne, WY—300 people

http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/04/15/news/wyoming/16-antitax.txt

[WVNan]

Got another one for WV. MARTINSBURG - 300

[Henchster]

Thanks everyone, we are now up to 46 states plus D.C., 471 cities, and between 593,000 and 671,000 patriots! We still need info from North and South Dakota, Vermont and Hawaii.

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.

[Henchster]

Nice work on getting Wyoming numbers!

[PsyOp]

Escondido Tea Party Tax Revolt, April 15th, 2009.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231510/posts

[manic4organic]

Thanks!

[tazannie]

Southern Pines, NC. 1,000

[Aurorales]

I didn’t see El Paso, TX listed there.

My sister lives there.
Local radio station said 700 people attended the event.

Please add to the list if not already on it. Thanks

[Aurorales]

Sorry, for the above post. I think I replied to the wrong poster.
Anyway, here it is again. Hope I pinged the right person.

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I didn’t see El Paso, TX listed there.

My sister lives there.
Local radio station said 700 people attended the event.

Please add to the list if not already on it. Thanks