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!
Without a doubt, we are missing many!
Marianna FL. -150 (eye witness account)
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/04/15/tea-party-update-ted-nugent-rocks-the-alamo/
Tifton, GA — 250
Silver City, NM — 654 signed in (differs from our 350)
Wellsboro, PA — 80
Superior, MS — 70
Santa Rosa, FL — 250
http://www.tokoni.com/story/11086/tea-party-2009-final-count.html
We have Spokane, WA reported very low.
“At 3pm on April 15, people began filing in, near the Convention Center and Opera House. By 4:15pm, approximately 2,500 to 3,000 had arrived standing shoulder to shoulder.
By 4:45p.m. over 5,000 were officially estimated present.”
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/04/tea-party-spending-taxes.html
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!
Just returned from the giant Brevard County Tea Party.
Minimum 2,000 maybe 2,500 over the 3 hours the rally continued.
Sign contest, voted upon by cheers of the audience, was a nice ending for a great afternoon.
Perhaps list it as Suntree, FL so that it is not confused with other tea parties, both north and south of it, held on the 15th.
(Melbourne and Viera)
Keep up the list, please, and thank you so much for doing it.
I talked to our local paper’s reporter and suggested he come to this site for national totals for his story!!! Well, I can try to influence the liberals at Florida Today, a division of Gannett. LOL
Jacksonville, NC, had another tea party yesterday which I was able to attend. Today’s Jacksonville Daily News had a front page story that said there were approximately 300 people there, but someone on the podium who was in a better position to survey the crowd said there were around 450 people in attendance. The list that is published here on Free Republic just reports the 200 people that attended the event on April 15. so the number for Jacksonville should be adjusted to AT LEAST 500 people!
It says here that 700 people signed in at the Bowling Green, KY event.
http://taxdayteaparty.com/2009/04/reports-from-our-readers-and-commenters/
Melbourne Fl -2000 (Revise)
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20090419/BREAKINGNEWS/90419009&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL
Melbourne Fl -2000 (Revise)
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20090419/BREAKINGNEWS/90419009&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL
This was a new Sunday event I believe.
Picayune MS - 250 (eye witness)
http://taxdayteaparty.com/2009/04/reports-from-our-readers-and-commenters/
As promised, after some 18 hours of collecting, from every quarter on the net that I can find (and a HUGE hunk of it RIGHT HERE on this thread) - my spreadsheet is reporting 1,101,065 attendees in 50 states and DC - and I STILL have more to enter!
NOTE that I'm using that 20-25% averaging figure that I told you about, which accounts for those coming and going prior to and after someone 'estimates' what they see at some moment. That's a lowball 'flux' figure, as the liberals use up to 35% or MORE - of course!
(We have several differences in our event list, I'll try to get those off to you here in the not toooo distant time later this eve.)
If I have time I'll post the contents of the spreadsheet where you can see it.
Jim... the bloody newspapers are lying through their teeth, all across the country!
Are we counting only April 15th or are we including other parties that went on this weekend?
Midland, TX — 1500
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232477/posts
http://www.mywesttexas.com/articles/2009/04/19/news/top_stories/midland_tea_party.txt
http://www.newswest9.com/Global/story.asp?s=10208585
Hobbs, NM —
Party referenced in article above but I haven’t found an attendance number.
Taos, NM — ???
Taos, NM — 60
Roswell, NM — 1000 people
Pajamas Media has Roswell, NM at 1800.
I forgot to ping you to post #398.
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