Posted on 02/24/2009 6:26:41 AM PST by Just another Joe
From link below:
Feb. 28
Kansas City Tea Party - 10:00am
Tea Party Protest in Kansas City, Mo.
Where To Meet:
J.C. Nichols Fountain, 47th and J.C. Nichols Parkway
K.C. MO.
1Mile Walk To: Senator Claire McCaskill (D) K.C. Office 4141 Pennsylvania Ave. K.C.MO.
Email: KansasCityTeaParty@yahoo.com
Sponsors: ? Blind Mule
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OK, so this is an anti-socialist, anti-0bama
RALLY.
It is not a “tea party”. That term is reserved for acts that actually disrupt the flow of taxation to the entity being opposed.
Just passing on the word. I'm not the one hosting the gathering even though I'll probably be there.
I’m just saying, the elitist socialists like 0bama and his minions will pay scant attention to a bunch of people who will never vote for them anyway, holding up signs on a corner, no matter if the attendance is 500 or 1000.
The Boston Tea Party guys planned an act of insurrection that interrupted a source of taxation for the English, enraged the powers that be, AND GOT AWAY WITH IT.
Patriots need to be thinking along these lines.
How about a pre-tea party?
Oh, from experience in that location -
watch the news media. When they show up, they will attempt to use camera angles to make your numbers look dismal.
When I was there in 2000, they found 2 Gore supporting airheaded girls (there were probably 3-400 patriots), pulled them aside for an interview, and
TURNED THE CAMERAS AWAY FROM THE THRONG NEAR THE STREET.
If they try this crap, IMMEDIATELY SWARM THEM.
Same day as the Buchanan County Lincoln Day. Sounds like a busy one.
The wife and I will be there, along with any others we can get to come.
I heard only KSHB showed up for the OP “Tea Party” and that was it. Figures.
Darn, I had to work during the OP gathering and now I have to work during the KC get together. Someone post pics, please.
I only saw 1 “big camera”, but I was only there for a bit because it was too cold for the little ones.
I will bring my digital camera and post an after action report.
Either that or they're all coming in under the radar.
Great notes on the thread on expected media bias. I made the OP rally, and the turnout of demonstrators was quite good for less than 48 hours’ planning. Getting the word out NOW is the key to large numbers.
Anyone know of a farmer willing to loan a pig for the demonstration? It’d be nice to walk a big hog up McCaskill’s office with “2009 Stimulus” on its side.
The programs the stimulus aims to create cannot be sustained without raising taxes.
Federal money states would get under the plan came with substantial strings attached that undo a lot of what's being done at the state level.
States would be required to extend benefits to part-time workers at a time when the states have had to borrow from the federal government to meet its obligations for benefits to full-time workers
Governor Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania, a Democrat, acknowledged that his state may not be able to sustain the higher levels of unemployment benefits mandated by the plan.
It was passed without a single Republican in the House voting for it.
Kansas Girl FYI ping!
I’m going to try to be there. The last freep I attended was to freep gore when he was in town.
I’ll just pin tea bags all over me — to make a historical statement! LoL no pics please
Here is a super easy one to remember:
Most of the money is not even spent this year.
It is a spending bill not a stimulus bill and sneaking this through when Americans are concerned and fearful for their jobs and future is JUST WRONG!
We do not have the money to pay for it. The money has to be borrowed and paid back—generational theft.
SOME ADVICE ON FUTURE “TEA PARTY” PROTESTS, from a media producer who attended the Overland Park affair:
I attended the invigorating protest outside Congressman Dennis Moore’s Overland Park, Kansas office yesterday.
I hoped 10-15 souls might show up. I was thrilled to see hundreds. Here are some suggestions. I don’t really want my name used. Sadly, it could really hurt my business, which is already hurting.
As a professional media producer, here are my concerns:
1. Incoherent message - the signs were all over the place. There were lots of agendas. That’s fine. The color and signage look good on TV.
But, when it came to the microphone - the overall message was tepid and unsure.
2. Create a theme - like “We want Senator So-and-So to resign for voting for this bill.” Or, “We want the Stimulus Repealed!” “Start Over.” Have a definitive purpose to your Assembly. A central theme will also help public speakers to focus. And don’t be afraid to personalize this. Put it on your Senators, Congress people, and the President. That’s what they are doing to anyone who objects.
3. Speakers not prepared for the media - the organizer was asked to name some specific objectionable items in the stimulus. She couldn’t do it. I doubt many of us could.
If you are an organizer, or the “face” of the event - take an hour to prepare. You don’t need to know everything about the stimulus. Just find 2 or 3 things - hard facts - you can point to and credibly say - these are wrong, wasteful spending items. Or, these items grow government, not the economy. It is critical.
4. Pass out talking points, just in case Joe or Jane Protestor gets buttonholed by a reporter.
5. This is all about image. If we don’t present the media with a professional, organized and, unfortunately, scripted image, they are going to make their own, and it won’t be favorable.
6. Recruit some help to pack the area around people being interviewed for background. God love the guy in the crazy Uncle Sam suit, and we certainly need the Minute Men, but these folks will quickly become THE story because they are colorful or controversial i.e., Good TV. Welcome their support. Maybe give them a minute on the mic. But I recommend trying to pack in mainstream, boring looking, and diverse Americans around the camera. No offense to anyone. Anytime a TV camera comes out, a certain number and type of attention seeker will flock to it. Now is the time for Grandma and Grandpa, the Plumber, the Young Executive, and the Homeschooling Mom to flock to the camera as background. Don’t be shy. Remember, how do you want your cause to be presented by the media? As crazies? Or as Concerned Neighbors?
7. Have an Agenda and a Time. We’re going to Assemble at this Time. We’re going to have a Sign-In Table. We’re going to have a Sign-Making Area. We’re going to have speakers at 10:30. We’re going to March to the Senator’s Office at this time and demand she resign. We’re going to end with Chants, and a Call-to-Action for the next Protest. That, and Protestors want to know what’s going on. If they become unsure, they leave. Organization wins, and it also intimidates the opposition. And the opposition is going to start showing up.
8. Share the Day’s Agenda with the Media. You have to create your own press. The event in Overland Park was HUGE, but only one news station came out to cover it, and there’s not even a photo in today’s Sunday paper. Sell it to them. They love good stories.
That’s it. I hope this helpful. These things are only going to get bigger, and people need to realize that a great responsibility comes with this wonderful opportunity. Get a Message. And Get It Out.
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