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.
And, Trump is a GREAT messenger!!!
It’s our last chance to fix this mess!!!!
Sometimes there’s no better word than “STUPID”!
He’s so right!
Take the lumps out!
Very possible.
Very possible also that Trump names him VP and neutralizes the SCOTUS once and for all by packing it with six additional hard right politicians in black robes and takes this current badn of IMBECILES out of the equation entirely.
FDR tried and failed.
Trump wont.
Okay, the guy in red is redeeming himself. : )
Says Republicans are supposed to be fighting for us and they are not!
Glad he said it!
Says the Republicans are supposed to be fighting for us, and they are NOT!
Crowd erupts!
Trump says “The Republicans Are Supposed to be Fighting For Us and They’re Not!”
yes take THAT Levin!
Trump says “The Republicans Are Supposed to be Fighting For Us and They’re Not!”
yes take THAT Levin!
Good. He’s finally pointing out how bad “the Republicans” are. He needs to do more of than and tap into the differences between him and the typical politicians.
YES.
Ugh, Nacho Boy is on the PHONE.
I lived in Martinsburg, WV. There are lots of places to stay there. There is a train that goes to DC Union Station, and leaves early several times. Cheaper, no problems with parking, and great WV love!
Cruz will not be Trump’s VP.
No, don’t get those. I need to spend more time out with my chickadees so they don’t fly away. That’s so great they stay when you go out.
My sister and BIL get a woodpecker in the summer than hammers on the metal flashing (or whatever it’s called)on their chimney - it is so loud I can hear it in the basement.
Trump is only 5 pts behind CRuz in TX, now?
Ooooh.....that’s nice.
No, not I. :-(
Good idea :)
I hope he comes to Texas!
Go Trump!
AMEN!
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