Posted on 04/17/2009 3:15:10 PM PDT by Henchster
CONGRATULATIONS! We are now up to ALL 50 states plus D.C., 485 cities, and can document no less than 602,000 and as many as 680,000 patriots took place in the greatest grass roots act of defiance since 1773!
EVERY state in the Union protested Washington D.C.'s tax and spend scheme.
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.
THANK YOU EVERYONE!
Bad Axe, MI - 100
New Richmond, WI - 80
Richmond Hill, GA - 60
Westerville, OH - 50
http://www.michigansthumb.com/articles/2009/04/16/news/local_news/doc49e74bc93d858849400190.txt http://www.newrichmond-news.com/articles/index.cfm?id=25152§ion=news http://savannahnow.com/node/707403/print http://www.nbc4i.com/cmh/news/local/local_govtpolitics/article/hundreds_crowd_statehouse_for_tea_party/14846/
Nice work!
We’re now at 606 cities. If there were 1,000, we probably have the big ones already included, so we can’t expect to gain that much more, but 1,000,000 is an outside possibility.
I couldn’t find anything so I called the Police Department just now - desk sergeant said there weren’t any demonstrations in town.
I’m still trying to find one around Winsted,CT - even though it’s Nader’s town I’d figure there would be one in the NW corner of CT
Also, no data seems to be entered for Montana cities:
Glendive, Livingston, Stevensville, and Virginia City - All of whom had 4/15 Tea Parties planned... I don’t know if they took place.
We need some local Montana FReepers to check that out and report back here.
http://www.kpax.com/Global/story.asp?S=10190988
“Those who participated in the Hamilton tea party rally moved on to hold another one in Stevensville.”
You are correct that those towns did have Tea Parties. I searched local papers but could not find the crowd estimates for those towns.
I will stuff a post up on the MT board...
Charlestown, WV—700
Martinsburg, WV—we have it reported at 300 from a Freeper
(Pajamas media has Jefferson area reported at 1500)
“Locally, several hundred protestors participated in events in Berkeley and Jefferson counties.”
http://www.journal-news.net/page/content.detail/id/518387.html?nav=5003
CHARLES TOWN - Residents filled the lawn and lined the sidewalk in front of the Jefferson County Courthouse on Wednesday to protest recent federal bailouts and government deficit spending.
http://www.journal-news.net/page/content.detail/id/518359.html
Sulphur Springs, TX - 300 Tea Party Sulphur Springs, TX
Plano, TX - ??? - Two videos and two different intersections. Anyone good at crowd estimations from videos? Plano Texas Tea Party and Plano Texas Tea Party Plano is a huge and very affluent north Dallas suburb. The protest lined two major intersections along Preston road. I have not found a count from any news source. Maybe there is a participant or organizer on here. That number has to be in the hundreds if not more.
Rowlett, TX - 200 Rowlett: Residents protest taxes at TEA party
Merrifield, Virginia Tea Party of 350 gathered at the Post Office. This was a seperate party from the Reston Tea Party.
reported by Virginia Blog and on Free Republic.http://northernvirginiateaparty.blogspot.com/2009/04/report-on-merrifield-tax-day-tea-party.html http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2231521/posts
And gentlemen in America now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That stood with us upon Tea Party day.
I'm presenty looking over a list of all the Tea Party events in Virginia and finding news accounts of attendance. I'm doing a google search srting like this "Lexington Virginia "Tea Party"". I'll suggest that all freepers try the same for their state and let's add to the tally. Just let Henchster know.
I've found over 3,000 already
Touche!
Oh yeah, per Henchster check aganist his list before
reporting your numbers.http://www.hench.net/2009/teaparty.htm
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