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!
Great List! Thank YOU!! I’ll email this info around.
Is there one central location to post links to their Tea Party photos?
I know there are more Sacramento Freeper photographers ..
My link to Sacramento Tea Party pix: http://shootmypix.com/p307064410
Vineland, NJ
400
Brunswick/St. Simons Island, Georgia. Petition signatures were up to 640, although honestly, I think it was EASILY over 750, because early on, the crowd was so dense that some folks may not have even known there WAS a petition table!!
Tatt
Good job! Thanks for your hard work keeping up with it all!
Add on another 300 people for Jackson, Michigan.
Endicott, NY 200
Binghamton, NY held one at the same time...have no idea a head count....
I would guess over a million people participated.
“Hey folks, we’re talking about housing here...”
LOL
btt
I don’t see Eugene, Oregon on there. Don’t know the exact numbers but I though that somewhere between 1,000 and 1,500 attended, even though the local fishwrap paper said only “hundreds” attended.
Add another 1000 from Yakima WA
I was a skeptic when I first heard of these. I thought they were a good idea, but didn’t really accomplish much.
I have since changed my opinion.
I believe these Tea Parties are critical to our survival as a nation, and that is no exaggeration.
I believe a great idea (please steal this) would be to go to one of these with a video camera, and get interviews with the following questions:
“Janeane Garofalo says you are doing this because you are a racist. A reporter on CNN says you are doing this at the behest of Fox. Why are you really here?” as a counter to these smear tactics. I bet we could get GREAT responses, and could post to YouTube (with permission from the interviewees or pixellating their faces out, etc.)
'Tea parties' stir crowds
Thousands voice frustration at events at City Hall, Capitol.
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Thursday, April 16, 2009Political frustration with the Obama administration turned into visible anger Wednesday, as thousands rallied at the Capitol to protest stimulus spending, taxes and Wall Street bailouts.
The "Austin Tax Day Tea Party," one of hundreds held around the country, drew several times more people than expected, organizers said. (The Department of Public Safety would not release crowd numbers at the Capitol for safety reasons, authorities said.)
"What I'm reduced to is this. I can't do anything else," said Ken Hardin, 68, of Horseshoe Bay. "I've never been in a march before."
At one point, when the group walked down Congress Avenue on Wednesday evening to ceremonially dump boxes into Lady Bird Lake, the crowd stretched from Cesar Chavez Street to the steps of the Capitol. In response, police had to block off four lanes of the street during rush hour.
Local protesters and national conservative activist groups spent weeks orchestrating Wednesday's "tea parties," which spawned from a highly publicized rant by CNBC host Rick Santelli on the floor of the Chicago Stock Exchange. At the Capitol, the end result was a mix of fiscal conservatives, Republicans and Libertarians who appeared united in their fear for the country's economy.
Earlier in the day, police estimated about 1,000 gathered at City Hall for the "Don't Mess with Texas Tea Party," which featured a speech by Gov. Rick Perry. Organizers estimated the lunchtime crowd at 1,500 and said it was much more than they expected.
Loveland Colorado
Police say over 1,000
Pittsburgh, Pa is not on the list! Several thousand there!
I like that . . . I may need to borrow the idea!
Add one protestor on his own, inside his own house, here in Minnesota.
Coleman, Texas held a Tea Party (town of about 4,000 - last count was 20 (very little promotion)
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