Posted on 10/05/2002 9:59:34 PM PDT by Auntie Mame
Well, we freeped 'em, we freeped 'em good.
Gray Davis along with Hillary Clinton and Terry McAuliff came to the Century City Hotel. Why, I'm not certain. The Century City Hotel is located in the heart of, you guessed it, Century City. The area is comprised of modern tall buildings, clean and pristine, and on a weekend, empty streets.
We arrived at about 4:00 p.m. A few minutes later protesters started arriving and we soon amassed about 30-40 people. AnnaZ was there, Badjoe, dalereed, hangfire, TonyinHawaii, and a whole bunch more people
One of the nicest things about this freep were all the non-FreeRepublic people who "spontaneously" showed up. There were some darling girls from UCLA who had the wristbands to be able to get into the function. Apparently in an effort to attract enough people to the event, UCLA students were invited. After standing outside and freeping with us for a while, these absolutely darling girls folded up their signs and tucked them under their shirts and into their pants and decided to battle the devil on its own turf. We didn't see them again. I hope they came out unscathed. They promised to throw in some boos for me during quiet moments.
The democrats did their usual and large busses were seen unloading their groups. I strolled by the hotel to get a better look and, you know what they say about fat middle-aged Republicans, well, the same holds true for what I saw waddling out of those busses.
There was so much going on at the freep today, and I want to be sure to give others a chance to chime in so I'll leave some details out. There were LOTS of honks for us and our signs, believe me, many people know that Davis has got to go.
Badjoe had a wonderful experience. A pro football player who just retired this year, and I can't remember his name right now, sent his lackey out and invited Joe into the hotel for a drink, as he liked Joe's sign and what Joe was saying through the bullhorn. At first I thought it was a ploy to get us to quit freeping, but that was not the case.
Joe went into the hotel and came out to tell this story: He took his sign in with him and met the football player, who also went to Pitt, just as Joe did. They were having a wonderful time talking and Joe had his sign which he was holding up. A security man came over to Joe and told him he'd have to leave since he had that sign. Joe asked him, "Are you with the secret service?" The man said, "No, I'm with hotel security." Joe said, "So that means you don't carry a badge or gun, right?" The man replied, "That is correct sir but I will now have to escort you out of the hotel." Joe politely said that he wouldn't be leaving yet and then introduced him to his "bodyguard," the 6'8" 300-some pound football player. They all had a good laugh, Joe set his sign down and stayed to finish his beer and talk and the security person disappeared.
Some people have all the fun, don't they? I sure wish I could remember the name of the football player for you, he is on TV on a football show, his number was 98 and his name is something like Tory????
Anecdotes aside, this freep was fun, the surroundings were lovely, the people were sensational, the cops and security were there the whole time staring us down, very eerie to me, but it was a great accomplishment.
For you ladies out there, RonDog has great legs and actually looks pretty good dressed up as a hooker, I was impressed. I may go out and buy some fishnet stockings tomorrow, they do wonderful things to a woman, er, person's legs.
Why am I not surprised? There were 3 TV stations there plus Telemundo showed up later....not one of them covered us.
The San Diego union ran the AP story this morning but they DELETED the one sentance about the anti davis demonstration.
Another example of LIEberals attempting to re-write history!
Thanks for the heads up;-)
Here's a weekend classic, too: Anti-war protest draws about 1,500 in Austin (plus two Freepers for counter-demonstration)
Build Prisons and stick these thugs in them!
The way dems have to BUS in people to make it APPEAR they are popular and that the 'people' support them is one of the worst manipulations the dems have going.
I recall the reports of gore calling the union bosses and pleading for them to bus people in to counteract the mighty DC Freepers who daily stood outside our VP mansion at the Naval Observatory in DC shouting 'GET OUT OF CHENEY's HOUSE!'. Reports were that the FReeper chanting was driving al bore nuts! hehe
I LOVED reading every account of this major FReep and hope the media are solidly attacked for remaining silent on this marvelous exercise in truth letting. GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU WHO MADE THE EFFORT TO GO AND GIVE GREY AND HITLERY a solid dose of reality! BRAVO!!
I LOVE Free Republic! Threads like this are what it is ALL ABOUT!
We surrounded him and chanted, "shame, shame" and "union thug".
Funny thing was, this SAME guy showed up at a "supposedly spontaneous" protest at State Sen. Locke Burt's office the very next week. When I questioned him on it, he grew quite belligerant and foul mouthed and started screaming at me.
Intimidation and fear is how they manipulate people when they attend these "spontaneous" outbursts by "regular" citizens. Don't believe a word of it, and document everything.
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