Posted on 11/04/2009 1:05:11 PM PST by teenyelliott
I had on a blue heavy coat, but I took that off. I also had on a navy blue shirt that had a Microsoft logo on the front.
When the rally stopped briefly, I moved over by the back of the second bus.
No, was home sick.
I haven’t missed an OKLA tea party yet, and always come away feeling great and inspired. Glad to meet you mjane. Gotta go, can’t wait to get there.
Glad to meet you also.
Great pictures teen.
What’s your guesstimate on attendance?
I was there until about 2:30 but couldnt really get a handle on how many people showed up.
I really don’t know, I’m pretty crappy with that kind of estimate. One person said that she thought between 1500 and 2000.
I heard someone estimate 2000 to 3000. My dad thought it was closer to 3000.
Lloyd,
Thank you and all those with you on the Tea Party Express for the rally this afternoon in Wichita. It was fantastic.
It has been a long time since I have been that inspired.
Best of luck to you on the rest of the trip.
I am so impressed with Toby Pedford the MC, and Brogdon for Gov.
I am not happy with Fallin, I think she should have stayed where she is for the sake of Okla., rather than giving up a seat.
Great PICS to you as well.
Here are mine again, for those who missed them:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378711/posts
And I'm driving the bus too, or so it seems...
Dr. Zoo, did you do that?
Sorry I missed meeting you teenyelliott, and you have beautiful daughters!
What were you doing in this neck of the woods????? If I would have known you were there, I would have introduced myself, dang it.
I am traveling with the TPX II, driving one of the support vehicles.
Unfortunately, they don't mention Free Republic from the stage , and even though I did speak a couple of times, they don't have time to give me a couple of minutes to give a shoutout to Freepers very often.
Jim Robinson is traveling with the tour also, but he had to skip the northern section and rejoined again in Amarillo and is going all the way to Orlando.
Sorry to have missed you, hope to meet you and other FR members on the next tour!
national tour makes stop at Lawrence-Dumont
Crowd greets Tea Party bus
BY FRED MANN
The Wichita Eagle
WICHITA — They came dressed as Betsy Ross, Patrick Henry and Death.
One rode a horse; another rode a unicycle.
But nearly everybody who attended Wichita's fourth tea party carried signs.
"We Want Our Country Back," "Wake Up America" and "Nobama Death Care," some of them said.
The signs — as well as blue skies, warm weather and a large midday crowd — greeted the national Tea Party Express II bus tour in the parking lot of Lawrence-Dumont Stadium on Wednesday.
Titled "Countdown to Judgment Day," the tour is on a 19-day, 7,000-mile journey across America with stops at rallies in 38 cities.
Members of the tour entertained the crowd with songs and speeches calling for change in Washington D.C.: less government spending, less government intrusion, an end to bailouts, an end to Democrat leadership in the House and Senate, and an end to President Obama's health care reform plans.
Organizers estimated the crowd at 1,500 to 1,700. Police at the scene estimated it at 2,000.
Fifteen people showed up to protest the tea party.
When the caravan pulled into the stadium parking lot with a 30-motorcycle escort, Shara McMichael of Wichita was among those who moved forward to get a better look, snap photos and cheer.
She said she attended the event "just because I'm tired of sitting around my living room with my family talking about what changes need to be made and what's going on. We can't sit around and talk about it anymore. We've got to do something,"
"One voice does make a difference, and when you have several hundred or 2,000, it's going to be heard," she said.
Deborah Johns, co-chair of the tour, introduced herself as the angry mom of a Marine who is serving his third term in Iraq. Her anger was aimed at the Obama administration, she told the crowd.
"We have a president who came dressed as Little Red Riding Hood who turned out to be the big bad wolf that is doing nothing but dismantling this country from the inside out," Johns said.
"It's time politicians in Washington get the message. The constitution begins, 'We the people', not 'We the politicians.' "
She also told the people they were making history.
"You've got the politicians in Washington bamboozled. They can't figure you out," she said.
The tour vice chairman, Mark Williams, a freelance radio talk show host from Boston, urged the crowd to work hard for political candidates who "stand up for working people" and want to return America to "the country it was meant to be."
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