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!
I was there.
Roanoke Rapids NC -400 (parking lot of Collier Harley-Davidson)
http://www.rrdailyherald.com/articles/2009/04/16/news/doc49e7828dc4245766826727.txt
Ratan, NM — 200 people
http://www.ratonrange.com/main.asp?SectionID=2
Also, I wonder how accurate our Albuquerque number is. Pajamas Media has it at 7,000. Per this news report, KRQE.com had to go back and adjust it’s report to “thousands” because people were calling in ticked off because they had lied in original estimates when they put it at only “hundreds.”
“The Albuquerque Police Department has declined to provide numbers. An APD spokesman referred us to the U.S. Marshal Service for a precise figure.” (which apparently they haven’t bothered to get).
Anyway, maybe 3000 is a safe number. It is obvious that their local media tried to lie about the numbers but were forced into retracting by outraged viewers.
Moriarty, NM — 50 to 100
http://www.mvtelegraph.com/index.php/news/1234-tax-day-tea-party.html
This very astute, investigative reporter says “a number of people” (so I took a guess)
#404
I put a date after those that weren’t on 4/15.
Where is your list posted? FReepers could save a lot of time if we could cross ref yours.
July the 4th comes to mind.
We should probably have it on October 25, but July 4 is probably more symbolic to the majority of FReepers.
Personally, July 4 makes me nervous. A lot of folks go to the lake or have family barbecues and such that day. Maybe if they were afternoon not evening events. I wouldn’t be able to make a July 4 event unless our family babecue at the lake qualifies. I’ll bring the signs! ;-) We are a very conservative group! Not a liberal in my immediate family.
Simpsonville, SC — 150 people
http://www.greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009904160329
Simpsonville, SC — 150 people
http://www.greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009904160329
Pickens, SC — 100
Simpsonville, SC — 150
**another reference**
http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20090415/NEWS01/90415021
Maybe we should report Spokane at 3,000 low and 5,000 high. Freeper Bulldog108 was there and said he estimated 3000.
Stanton, NE — 204
#25
In reference to last post
#25 here for Stanton reference
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2233252/posts?page=19
One-in-four adults (25%) say they personally know someone who attended a tea party protest. That figure includes just one percent (1%) of those in the Political Class.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics2/51_view_tea_parties_favorably_political_class_strongly_disagrees
They are scared. No doubt about it. These Tea Parties are AWESOME because they go around the MSM media and especially around the nat'l MSM! Most read about their local Tea Party in their local paper which directly quoted participants and showed pictures. Many people drove by and saw the protesters. This is a good thing!
Rasmussen has Obambi at +3 today - 33% strongly approve, 30% strongly disapprove. If Bush had those numbers in less than 100 days, and had 1 million people protest in every state, the media would be screaming for him to resign.
Instead, they fawn all over Obambi him while he makes a bumbling fool of himself, and the country.
The 33% who stongly approve must be the same folks who disapproved of the Tea Parties!
Obama is a disgrace. Bowing to the Saudi King and now yucking it up with Chavez. Geesh!
You are exacly right about the stupid media. They are a disgrace as well.
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