Very nice mother and daughter, not certain where they were from.
Crowd shot from the Cap steps
Speaker and coordinator Joan Fabiano--a force to be reckoned with!
Wide shot of part of the crowd
Another crowd shot
Posted on 02/27/2009 11:42:46 AM PST by grellis
A grand time was had by all!
Very nice mother and daughter, not certain where they were from.
Crowd shot from the Cap steps
Speaker and coordinator Joan Fabiano--a force to be reckoned with!
Wide shot of part of the crowd
Another crowd shot
EXCELLENT!!
Considering that the planning of this event began late Monday afternoon, there was an impressive crowd. Big round of applause for Joan Fabiano and others who put this together so quickly!
The speakers were great and on point, but my favorite part of every rally is walking the crowd after the speakers are done, catching up with old friends and making new ones. I didn't have the guts to stand on the Cap steps and yell "Where are my fellow freepers? but I came pretty close.
I wish I was able to take a picture of all the great signs and all the wonderful people present! What I have here doesn't do it justice.
Nice turnout, it seems.
Questions:
1) How did the general public respond?
2) How did the local government respond?
3) How did the “authorities” (local law enforcement) respond?
This is a day in the life for local law. The Capitol has it's own small State Police contingent, supplemented by privately contracted security. They see a rally a week. They seemed inclined to be sympathetic with this one, though.
tea party made the state journal.
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20090227/NEWS01/302270003
Looks like a pretty good turn out for a work day and typical Michigan weather. Sorry I couldn’t be there...
Wow, thanks so much for the quick post!
You don’t know how bad I wanted to be there! Hopefully, there are more of these, and I and others can attend! I can’t stand that I can’t do anything right now but wait for your post!! Good job!
Should be a good turn out....everyones unemployed in MI
Great Pics!! My son and I both took a vacation day to be there. I asked a state policeman standing there when we left and he guessed about three hundred people.
Great signs all over the place, freakin cold though, but well worth the two hour drive.
There was a crew there from an ABC affiliate and some other media.
UGH!!!!! I did NOT see Michigan on the list these past few days! I’d have been there!!! UGH!!!!
Well, not quite everyone...
WE are the general public, unless you consider the war protestors along the street to be generally public.
Great Pictures! I wanted to be there, but the use of crutches put a damper on that. It appears from the reports I’ve read that nationwide, there have been thousands attending protests. This is a great start and done in such a short amount of time.
Reading thru the reports, they just get better and better.
Anyone think the MSM will acknowledge these events?
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Not everyone here is unemployed.
Contrary to popular myths, many of us here in Mi are employed and are concerned about keeping our jobs.
Again, thanks for the report, good job.
>I’m not sure what you mean by the general public. There was no kind of counter-rally, [snip].
Yep, that’s what I meant... The other two possibilities would be a general trend for them to join the rally, or ignore you. (This sounds like a lot of ‘ignore’.)
>This is a day in the life for local law. They see a rally a week. [snip]
>They seemed inclined to be sympathetic with this one, though.
That’s good news. When/if the SHTF we need as many of their “guns” as possible on “our” side.
>WE are the general public, unless you consider the war protestors along the street to be generally public.
Indeed so; but still, there are groupings among the populous not attending/participating in the rally... in that sense there is still a general public.
Nice pics, grellis. Thanks for posting. I was there but got there a bit late. It was a last minute decision. I was locating a parking spot just after Rush came on the car radio (WJR 760) at 12:06pm. I must have got up to the steps of the capitol about 15 minutes later. I missed the speaker, but did get to mingle and pick up some literature. As I was walking up, 1 person was walking away with her sign but I didn’t notice anyone else leaving. Just about at the edge of the crowd someone came out of it and said hi to me. It was a former work associate who is now heavily involved with the NORC (North Oakland Republican Club). He has red hair and had a white NORC tee-shirt on over heavier clothing, but I don’t see him in your pics. I looked for signs with indications of FR on them but I didn’t see any. I stayed until all of the sign people got up on the capitol steps to get group pics. They sang “The Star Spangled Banner” and “God Bless America”. After that it seemed to be breaking up a little so I headed back to my car. I was in it just before 1:00pm. It was chilly, the crowd wasn’t very big (maybe a couple hundred?) but they were enthusiastic. It’s a start.
Joan Fabiano The Fabiano’s own most of the good resturants in Lansing. Good food. Good for her. YOU GO GUYS!
Grellis. You rock dude! I am on this forum everyday. Now WHY or Why did i miss this. I was just a few miles away. I won’t miss the next one. That would be the one with pitch forks. LOL
Somehow, we need to convince the mods and Jim Rob to set up a semi-permanent Tea Party watch thread than can be continuously updated and pinged. Maybe a separate sidebar or something. This ain’t working with threads scattered all over hell and gone.
I don’t know any of the State Troopers assigned to the Capitol, but I know most of the guys in the North Precinct of Lansing, which entirely covers the downtown. They’re a great bunch of men and women, from Captain Hall right on down. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of them were there today, out of uniform (which makes it harder for me to spot them).
I've been to a lot of rallies at the Capitol, and this was the biggest non-liberal rally I've attended since Perot came through on his anti-NAFTA tour. I don't attend lib rallies, but I walk past the Capitol nearly every day so I have to mosey through quite a few of them.
I was standing next to or near the NORC guy most of the time I was there. Blue nylon jacket w/ hood and 3 small white stripes down each arm...bluejeans...sunglasses...6 feet tall. I’m quite the fashion maven myself, grellis. :) NOT!
I was there, had my flag and USMC hat. It was good. I got interviewed by the Tele. People filled a big bucket full of teabags.
Some guys had a flag with an M-16 on it that said “Come and take it”.
People are starting to see that obambi is an empty suit.
Thanks for the pictures, looks like a nice turnout. Are there future plans?
WOOOOHOOOO!
Some guys had a flag with an M-16 on it that said “Come and take it”.
Those guys were great. I also saw one guy with a yellow sign with a thanks/mention of Santelli on it.
Good stuff, and thanks for doing this.
We are going to need a lot more to get their attention.
Good job! Thanks for the report!
“Somehow, we need to convince the mods and Jim Rob to set up a semi-permanent Tea Party watch thread than can be continuously updated and pinged. Maybe a separate sidebar or something. This ain’t working with threads scattered all over hell and gone.”
Great idea...as I posted in another thread, as more people’s ox are gored, they are going to be looking for a way to express. April 15, July 4 are some good future dates. The new Tea Party is a force to be reckoned with!
Glad you made it! I’m in CA so could only be there ‘in spirit’ ...
I did hear a couple of different folks at today's rally mention something going on March 13 (at least, that's what my not-fully-functional ears picked up). Does anyone know what, if anything is going on around that date? It would be great to have more time to plan.
I'll say it again, Joan Fabiano and only one or two others did a tremendous job pulling this together in under five days.
I loved those guys! When they got up on the steps and posed for everyone--that's exactly when I realized that my camera was dead. I can't believe I missed that shot!
After action FYI. Did you make it down okay?
I’m starting a ping list and will try to do a roundup thread. I’m thinking it would be handy to have all the links in one thread.
May not be possible, but it’s worth a try.
I think we talked today. I was the guy in the blue and black parka with a camo trooper’s cap. We have got to come up with some sort of IFF for these things so FReepers can ID each other.
Were you carrying a sign? What did we talk about?
No, and ‘you’ asked if I caught the name of the politician.
Great job by all! Thanks for the pics.
Thanks.
This made it to the online version, but there was nothing in the print version of the Leftwing Statist Jejeune-al today.
Dawson Bell thought there were 200-250 people there. I had guessed 120. he’s probably better at estimating crowds that I am.
I take that back. The LSJ did have print coverage.
Sorry.
I wouldn't mind counter-rallying them sometime, pathetic old bags.
Crap. We were in Cleveland and missed the whole thing. I feel sick.....
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