Tampa’s Tea Party was tepid at best and not well attended. It was held in downtown Tampa, a cesspool for fawning black and leftwing zero followers. Move it out to the I-4/I-75 corridor. That location already drew national attention for the proposed flag controversy. On Saturday, April 25, 2009, the new Tampa Confederate Flag Memorial site will be dedicated with appropriate hoopla and good speakers. This would be an appropriate Saul Barry Alinsky agitator moment.
I was at the Tampa Tea Party and I thought it was reasonably well attended, given the fact that it was downtown and difficult to get to and park for. A good microphone system certainly would have helped as well. I agree that the next one needs to be somewhere easier to get to and park. If I am in town, I’ll be at all upcoming Tea Parties and am getting more to attend as well. Saturday or July 4th Tea Parties should be better attended since most of the people attending actually have a job, although the current administration’s policies are making many more people available to freely attend!
The account you guys gave about the Tampa Tea Party is interesting. I live in Palm Beach County and down here we met at the West Palm county courthouse. There were about 300 of us. If I hadn’t been there I wouldn’t have known it occurred! Our local liberal rag, The Palm Beach Post (famous for libeling Rush Limbaugh during his rehabilitation), virtually ignored it - a couple sentences at bottom of C section. This, however, isn’t discouraging to me. There were probably thousands of such unreported, spontaneous gatherings in addition to the much larger ones. And our congressman is the ultra-liberal Robert Wexler. You know, he’s the guy who was discovered to not even reside in his district (covered by Fox)! I think the fact that this was a grass roots authentic expression of the people has overcome the efforts of the liberal politicians and MSM to downplay it. Among themselves, they KNOW something important happened and that it wil continue to grow.