For those who might not know, the Fresno/Central Valley Chapter had their annual rally and picnic this weekend and, believe it or not, we had the police and press sicked on us by Debbie Reyes, a member of the Fresno "Human Relations Commission", a group funded by the City of Fresno, to monitor "human relations" (at a taxpayer cost of over $190,000). The fax received by the press and police called us a "hate group". The purpose of the fax was to warn of our rally and our "Free Republic Hate Rally Picnic".
Needless to say, the lid has blown wide open on this. This issue has been the lead story on several news stations, and was the cover story in the Fresno Bee this morning. The Mayor of Fresno is outraged and is attempting to temporarily suspend the HRC. We are stunned and outraged also.
There are several threads running about this issue. For those interested in more information on this, click on these threads:
Fresno, California's Annual Tailgate Picnic 9/13/03, aka: the "Free Republic Hate Rally Picnic" (the thread includes pictures of this scary group).
VIDEO OF NEWS STORY ON FRESNO "HATE" RALLY AND PICNIC HERE!!!
To make a long story short, it has been impossible to keep up with things and pings this weekend, but wanted you all to know that I haven't been intentionally ignoring you or my weekend thread.
Thank you all for being here. I hope you've had a nice weekend. Mine has been interesting, to say the least. LOL.