Another 300 to 400 at the second TEA party of the day (in addition to the earlier one).
Posted on 04/15/2009 3:08:47 PM PDT by kristinn
I'm hoping to be able to ascertain an overall national figure of attendance at the tea parties today by asking Freepers to post their crowd estimates on this thread.
I'm also asking that the thread be kept to just the numbers, no photos, etc., but if you want to link back to photos in your crowd estimate that's fine.
Please give the location and number of participants.
I'll go first:
Melbourne, FL - 1000.
I just talked to my mom who said Rogers, Arkansas had at about 500 people in the park. She was amazed.
The Drive By Media is having a hissy fit today...lol. Hard to control the news with the internet and Fox. I pray they all go bankrupt!
KVOR was reporting “thousands.”
I’m not sure how big it was, as I had to work up the mountain and couldn’t join the protest. :(
I was at the tea party in Edenton, NC...I would estimate the crowd at 300-350...great time!!
There were several around Kansas City MO today. The one downtown on the lawn of the Liberty Memorial was estimated at 4,000. There was another on the Lees Summit (suburb of KC) city hall steps estimated at 300. I’m not sure about the one in Johnson County.
Grand Junction, CO 2,000
Victory Park Manchester , NH
est. 700-900, maybe more Park was FULL
Greensburg, Pa 600-800
Did you get San Francisco? I didn’t go, but I hear between 250-500.
After the SF Rally groups apparently went to exit ramps to demonstrate locally. I saw a group as I took the Tiburon exit to pick up my kids from horse camp. Hoping the make up for my lack of participation in SF, I asked the kids do you want to stop and help out for a while? They said yes, so out we went and the five of us joined the five of them. It was a very positive experience and I am glad to have been a small part of it.
One of the women that helped organize the event began by singing the National Anthem......after a few bars, several more joined in then the entire group began singing along. Great!
Another Tea Party is scheduled for Saturday noon at Fassnight Park in Springfield.
Just read on a news site that Hartford, Conn. had 3,000
Whaaattt??!!! I hope the crowd doesn't let them get away with that propaganda and keeps their phones lit up for a week!
Huntsville 2000-3000 is what I have heard.
Des Moines, Iowa: Reports say 1000+
Buffalo 400
Rochester 1000
Jamestown 120
Not bad for WNY where all of us have to work.
Another 300 to 400 at the second TEA party of the day (in addition to the earlier one).
Lisbon, Ohio, about 200.
Yes, small potatoes, but no oak-tree seeds, and lots of patriotism.
Colville, Wa. had 200 from a small town.
Conroe, TX 800
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