Posted on 02/11/2016 4:59:52 AM PST by nikos1121
Thursday, February 11, 2016: GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in Baton Rouge, LA at the Baton Rouge River Center. The event is scheduled to begin at 7:00 PM CST.
As the "Capital City", Baton Rouge is the political hub for Louisiana, and is the second-largest metropolitan city in the state, with an estimated population of 228,895 as of 2014. The metropolitan area surrounding the city, known as Greater Baton Rouge, had a population of 820,159 people as of 2013.The urban area has around 594,309 inhabitants.
HOW DID BATON ROUGE GET ITS NAME?
The French name le baton rouge ("the red stick") is the translation of a native term rendered as Istrouma, possibly a corruption of the Choctaw iti humma ("red pole") Andre Joseph Penicaut, a carpenter traveling with d'Iberville, published the first full-length account of the expedition in 1723. According to Penicaut,
"From there [Manchacq] we went five leagues higher and found very high banks called ecorts in that region, and in savage called Istrouma which means red stick [baton rouge], as at this place there is a post painted red that the savages have sunk there to mark the land line between the two nations, namely: the land of the Bayagoulas which they were leaving and the land of another nation—thirty leagues upstream from the baton rouge named the Oumas."
THE BATON ROUGE RIVER CENTER
At this time, I have no idea if the event will be in the large arena or the theater.
Crowd staying on there feet.
I love how the campaign sends out the invites and the notices.
If I get one for TX, I am going!!!
Well glad you are able to—it is special and historical :)
Only 5 points? Where are you seeing him?
LOL!
Did you just see the headline that the Cruz camp just stopped airing a campaign spot with a soft pornography actress?!! Somebody get on the phone to Rush quick. Did Reagan use pornography actors in his spots?
Crowds yells when Trump mentions to bomb the oil
Yes. Video is on CSPAN.
Leni
I ONLY buy Moen and have NEVER had a complaint about any of them.
LOL... Rush will find an excuse, out of his excuse bag, for CRuz.
Do you have a link on that?
He knows if he makes a move .... he’s done! : -)
Yes indeedy ! :-)
No link just saw it as I was browsing the Forum headlines. I will go look.
Yes, that happened yesterday—I think it was a Kiwanis function or something similar.
Jeb had to stop speaking and go away!
I’m not as drunk as some thinkle peep I am!
I hope you can and will.
In fact, I’ll meet you half way, like in Alabama!
We can stay together.
I promise, I can get us in the front row and I promise, we can meet and talk to Donald Trump and his son(s).
Let’s try to work it out. Really!
YES! YES! YES!
You must attend!
No excuses!!!
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