Getting a permit on the Mall is not a problem. I have done it many times and I am willing to get it again.
Some things to think about:
a. 4th of July weekends may already be booked up. But with the 4th being in the middle of the week we have 2 weekends to check into.
b. One jiffy john per 50 people is required at about $200 per jiffy john
c. Any stages, etc that are going to be on the grass will need to have a matted access route for vehicles to drive on. Then they have to be self standing - NO driving pegs into the grass
d. A minimum of several months of planning and organizing is needed to get sufficient numbers to attend. People have to plan.
e. We need some BIG names early on to help draw people
f. We will need to hire medical teams for the event. I am not sure how many are need per ?? people.
g. Donations, and from deep pockets, are severely needed.
h. Advertising and lots of it is a must.
Hope this helps.
As mentioned, to have something around the 4th, we need to start planning NOW. Other than basil, I do not see anyone offering to help.
[Mr] T
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This one is very much needed. I think is possible to get 500,000 thousand people to attend. Fill the mall from the Lincoln memorial to the Washington monument. The problem is the money and the planning and coordination.
I went to Beck's 8/28 rally back in the day when I followed him. It wasn't a TEA Party rally, but there were hundreds of thousands of TEA Party people. Beck had a lot of money tied up in the rally and at that time he was on FoxNews and the radio five days a week which certainly helped publicity.
Teaming with Gun Owners of America, the NRA, and other groups could make it big.
Time around 4th of July is a no go as the Folklife Festival and fireworks prep, clean-up wipes out that week.
Porta-potties are 1 per 300 people. Volume discounts can be had, but they do add up.
Mr. T, can you recon the Park Service and/or Capitol Police for open days if Jim goes in that direction? Also might want to consider a march along with the rally.
One thing we'll need is volunteer marshals.
TR, I certainly appreciate your organizational sketch, but I really think the time has passed for those sorts of rallies.
What we really need is a spontaneous, overwhelming, grass roots citizen response to the very real crisis now occurring in Washington. Something a lot less clinical and super organized, like the Tea Party rallies of a couple years ago.
The Commies aren’t going to listen to a bunch of well-mannered, peacefully assembled patriots waving flags and making speeches. That will only make them laugh harder at us than they did the last time.
We need to vent. At them. Up close and personal. In our millions. And we need to disobey a few stupid regulations while we’re at it. We’ve got to be noisy, and pissed off enough to put the fear of God into these people.
It’s that, or the trajectory of events is going to close off every other option to right this thing, except one. We may wind up with that sole remaining option anyway, but if we’re going to muster one more time, we’d better make it effective.