I’m sure there were some organizations behind some of them, but I think there were many more that were organized by individuals or local groups. Ours here in the Central Valley was organized by an individual. A young pregnant mom who was fed-up with high taxing government and didn’t want to wait for someone else to get a protest going, so she did. Then other groups joined in or donated resources and made it happen.
FR cannot take credit for this, though we did have many FReepers joining in on their local protests. Some were organizers, or donors, promoters and volunteers, but many of us were just participants. Very vocal participants!
I think the Internet and Talk-Radio made these rallies a huge success. We bypassed the mainstream media, bypassed the politicians, bypassed the political parties and simply made it happen. This was the direct voice of We the People!
Great rallies!!
Great job, everyone!!
Thanks for the background info and Michele Malkin’s link. Now I can write an informed reply to AFA.
That’s one frustrated crowd in Greenville, LOL! More politicians should be greeted that way IMO.
Regardless, the politicians have to be taking a hard look at the Tea Parties, although they’d never admit it.