I drank mine before I got to the check-in.
But it was all worth it:
I drank mine before I got to the check-in.
But it was all worth it:
Great photos
Todd - sorry you didn’t make it in last night. There were areas here and there in the nose bleed sections where seats were available. All I can figure is the police/USSS felt they couldn’t get peopled screened and in before the event was coming to an end. It was somewhat slow going through security.
Great pics, Jon!
I posted most of the below on the Phoenix rally thread for today because folks had moved over to the new rally thread, but thought I’d post here, too, so that it would be on the Everett rally thread in case anyone was looking here.
was looking at the Everett Herald to see what they had to say (they are lib, but not as bad as the Seattle Slimes, from what I remember). The had 2 articles on the rally with a lot of pictures that I thought you all might be interested in. The coffeemaker in my room didn’t work, so you need to understand I read them w/o coffee :-o They seemed to be rather fair, let me know if you disagree.
Trump fills an arena and promises a fulfilled country
http://www.heraldnet.com/news/line-for-7-p-m-trump-rally-in-everett-is-growing/
One big party: Right and left face off on Everett’s streets
http://www.heraldnet.com/news/one-big-party-right-and-left-face-off-on-everetts-streets/
I was SO excited to see Rudy and my favorite Senator, Sessions, and even Reince! When they said he had brought a couple of surprise guests, I was thinking it was probably a couple of his kids, which would have been fine, too.
A little post-rally update:
As we (crowds) were coming out of the arena there were a lot of police officers standing in a line - we were all thanking them and they were smiling.
There were police and sheriff’s from all over - Seattle, Bellevue, Whatcom County, King County, Highway Patrol and I spoke with 1 motorcycle officer from Bellingham who smiled, thanked me and shook my hand when I thanked him for his service.
A crowd of us (probably at least a 1/2 block long, 2-3 deep) was walking east down the sidewalk (on the north side) of a main street towards the intersection of another main street. Someone in the front noticed police and protestors yelling on the southwest corner at the main intersection and we all started chanting TRUMP - TRUMP - TRUMP. When we got to the intersection we saw police using their bikes to block the protestors, who were chanting something, but I couldn’t understand what they were saying. It wasn’t long before the protestors headed down the street (south) away from the intersection and the police (or at least some of them) rode in the opposite direction (north) past us. I’d say about 20-30 minutes later, the protestors started marching down the sidewalk past us in the direction the police had ridden (north). The bicycle officers showed up fairly quickly and started following them and then an Everett police car went down the street behind them. They had just opened that road, but the police put the blockades back and wasn’t letting traffic through. That was my little after rally “excitement” for the evening.