Tea Party on: Taxpayer revolts in Green Bay, Lafayette, Olathe, and Harrisburg; Plus: Live from Fullerton CA… “Recall the Taxinator!;” Arnie videotapes/DVDs smashes/shredded
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The tax-paying rebels are not going away.
In Green Bay, Wisconsin, today an estimated 500 protesters gathered for a Tea Party at Titletown Brewing. Reader David has more at Pork Revolution:
Green Bay reader Natalie was also there. She e-mails a few more photos and a note:
Dear Michelle,
There were families there, big tough guys in their local union# jacket, young college age people, grandparents, single people, everyone was represented, everyone was middle-class. It was great to see and also, to KNOW that for every person who showed up at this Tea Party, there were probably 500 that couldn’t make it….kinda like roaches!
The signs were amazing and I am once again, hopeful for my country and for our way of life.
My parents came to this country (legally!) to escape socialism and I refuse to just let the Obamites walk all over us. I was so happy to see that even those who have enjoyed our freedoms for generations are not taking them for granted!
Thank you for everything you do to keep this country free!
Reader Earl sends a report from Olathe, KS, where an estimated 120 taxpayers came to raise their voices. A few pics:
And in Lafayette, LA, from reader Fred:
In Harrisburg, PA, hundreds more turned out today. And protesters underscored a theme hammered here over the past year — blasting Bush for pre-socializing the economy for Obama:
The event, organized by the Commonwealth Foundation, a politically conservative group, and two local radio talk show hosts, was called the “Harrisburg Tea Party.”
“These are people who believe in limited federal and state government, but who think government has overstepped its limited role in our lives,” said foundation President Matthew Brouillette.
Speakers and participants denounced both Republicans, such as former President George Bush and Sen. Arlen Specter, and Democrats, such as President Barack Obama and Gov. Ed Rendell.
They disliked Mr. Bush’s actions last fall to give federal money to banks that had made poisonous home loans, and criticized Mr. Obama for spending additional billions of taxpayer dollars to prop up General Motors and Chrysler, to help over-leveraged homeowners trying to avoid foreclosure and to help deficit-ridden states with his $787 billion economic stimulus program.
Glenn Reynolds has a good crowd pic from Harrisburg.
Reader Bonnie sends her Harrisburg pics:
Party on!
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For new readers who are just learning about the protest movement and want to join, the best organizational resources are Tax Day Tea Party (nationwide April 15 events), Twitter #teaparty, PJTV’s list of upcoming protests, Re-TeaParty (send teabags to Washington and find July 4 events), and TCOT Report. And one more good one: New American Tea Party.
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Update 6:23pm Eastern. There’s a big tax revolt protest just underway in Fullerton CA, spearheaded by KFI’s John & Ken. Liveblogging here.
Some of the signs in the crowd:
“Governor Schwarzenegger is a girly man!”
“Recall the Taxinator!”
“No on Poop 1A!”
“Been-A-Dick Arnold”
“How do Politicians Spell Pledge? L-I-E.”
“Born Free, Taxed to Death.”
“Effeminator”
Twitter user Sugar Jones is livetweeting the protest and reports that Schwarzengger’s videotapes and DVDs were sledgehammered and shredded.
California taxpayers are mad.
A commenter below says there’s a huge traffic jam in Fullerton caused by protesters trying to get to the venue. Packed.
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Gladz: You are doing GREAT since you already know not to copy CP.
Having had some media training, let me give you a few pointers:
1) Get your talking points squared away — and minimize them (two, MAYBE three at the most). Understand you have less than a minute to speak, anything more and they are already finished with you, you won’t make the evening news. They are looking for sound-bites, not speechifying!
2) Be pleasant and look directly at the interviewer, not the camera, even using the reporter’s name to make it personal. This also helps you make contact with the viewers since you are talking to someone tangible, not a teleprompter (sorry, I couldn’t resist).
3) Don’t necessarily answer their question unless it hits on your point. Acknowledge the question, but not in a dismissive way and then get your points “out there.” Try, “That is a good question, but it misses the point…” which opens the door for you to get your points across.
4) Brevity is the soul of wit, so is getting something in the media!
nail49 said (#96):
Sad to say, it has been. Remember, he’s competing with Bush and Clinton.
What about the 5-day promise that all bills will be online five days?
That didn’t happen.
Oh, wait, that was an emergency, right?
Sad to say lgm is an idiot.
Trying to pass this Administration off as open and transparent is like trying to pass off Jezebel as a woman of virtue.
In the words of a former commander of mine,
lgm: That is like believing we have to destroy the economy to save the economy!
If The One had merely attended his White House parties and left the economy alone, we would be better off and on an upward trend.
There were signs of an uptick in the economy as late as January, but that has been lost in the tsunami of “change” since Obambi got his hands on the wheel of the ship of state
Nail! I just got back to the computer. Hey, thanks for the pointers! How did you know I looked at the camera??
Thanks again…
I want to attend one of these so bad! I just made a video celebrating these tea partys:
http://tinyurl.com/cehsya
lgm, having lived out here for over two years I can refute you with a high degree of accuracy. NO ONE I know, work with, attend school with or in any way associate with thinks higher taxes is a good idea. The reason: This state needs to curb it’s out of control spending, not feed it with further tax increases.
Stick to commenting on things you may actually know something about. Here’s a hint:
You’re right that Obama promised exactly what he’s delivering. He said he would go after the wealthy and the productive. He’s giving us exactly the kind of crap he campaigned on, and likely most of his supporters and voters wanted exactly that.
Of course, once the masses figure out they can just vote themselves more money the republic is dead or dying.