Thank you, Jim! Hope the FReepmobile is fixed and back on the road soon. Thank you for BEING there. The response across America looks fabulous! God bless all of you and God bless America!
We fight on .......... BUMP!
Posted on 09/04/2009 6:56:30 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Woo hoo!! The Tea Party Express has a busy schedule today:
But, unfortunately, I may miss some of these. The freepmobile broke down last night (right in front of the hotel) and it had to be towed to a garage. They haven't got back to me yet with the verdict. Hopefully it's something simple and we can catch up to the caravan later today.
Woo hoo!! Thirty-five cities, thirty-five tea parties in sixteen days!!
Be sure to check the tour schedule and join us when we get to a city near you: TeaPartyExpress.org!!
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Thank you all very much!!
Hope to see you in DC!!
Rebellion is brewing!!
Aw, man! :-(
I’m all ready to go to the Dallas meet, got my sign made (big Uncle Sam saying “I want you to vote them out of congress in 2010/2012!” and I’m about to pack up the babies and head on out. I hope the FReepmobile gets fixed at minimal costs and you get back on the road asap, JimRob!! Be safe!
Hope to see you there, if not, WE GOT YOUR BACK IN DALLAS!
Bring on MoveOn—we’re ready for’em! :-)
Is the Tea Party Express drawing the kinds of crowds that were expected? Higher, lower, about right? Are the crowds growing, falling or holding?
Very hard to tell from the TV coverage so am looking for some insider info.
I will be at the Memphis event tonight, cant wait!!!! My wife is an artist and will be helping me make a poster. hopefully i get on TV again so the kids can see their pops and be proud!
any suggestions for a catchy poster?
I’m driving home from New Orleans to Memphis today. I hope you catch up to the caravan by then. Either way, I will enjoy meeting other FReepers.
Thank you, Jim! Hope the FReepmobile is fixed and back on the road soon. Thank you for BEING there. The response across America looks fabulous! God bless all of you and God bless America!
We fight on .......... BUMP!
Since I was born and raised in Memphis, this is one time I regret not being back there.
I will be thinking of you guys.
Give HELL to the Marxist.
Fingers crossed in this department!
I'll be wearing a red Free Republic hat, glad you are going to make it to the Dallas stop!
Jim, bummer about the Freepmobile, hopefully they will find it's just a small problem and fix it quickly
WOW four teaparties today! Hope to see a bunch of Freepers out there!
City links above seem to be dead - getting this message
“Sorry, the site you requested is temporarily unavailable.
Due to high volume of traffic, this site is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.”
In Dallas today on business as luck would have it. Going to try and make the rally.
I’ll be wearing a red karate/taekwondo t-shirt, and at the bottom of my Uncle Sam sign I’ve written GET INFORMED @ FREEREPUBLIC.COM!!!
Of course, you might be able to spot me easier because I’ll be pushing a HUGH stroller with my twins in it, LOL! :-)
You da Man!
Bummer on van.. hopefully all will be expedient AND reasonable
It’s raining in Memphis this morning, but should stop by the time the Tea Party Express arrives.
Hope that we get a good crowd.
How about something along the lines of “DC is full of
alligators bleeding us dry. It’s time to drain the swamp.”
Or an interpretation of that in some way.
Har thanks!
Sounds you are a SERIS family person, see ya soon.
See you today!!!
I Gladney selling Gasdsen Flags with the express?
Austin and Waco got good coverage on our local news..I think the number in Waco was larger than expected.
Hey Jim, will see you at the Mt. Vernon Whistle Stop.
Anyone in East Texas would like to meet the Tea Party Express, just received this from Tyler Tea Party:
EAST TEXANS
The Tea Party Express added a stop just for us.
The Tea Party Express Comes to East Texas
September 4, 2009
Location: I-30
WHISTLE STOP RALLY
This “whistle stop” rally is the 14th stop on the Tea Party Express national bus tour.
It is being held between our Dallas, Texas and Little Rock, Arkansas tour stops.
“whistle stop.”
Date/Time:
Friday, September 4th at 2:45pm
Rally Location:
I-30 Rest Stop
Mt. Vernon
Franklin County, Texas
Approx how long in Dallas ? Sounds like they might be late whish is helpful here !
Great coverage of last night’s Tea Party Express in this morning’s Waco Tribune Herald. Very good crow, second largest so far! District 17 appreciates the support in our attempt to unseat Chet Edwards. Good luck with the wheels.
http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2009/09/04/09042009wacTeaParty.html
By Anita Pere Tribune-Herald staff writer
Friday, September 04, 2009
The Tea Party Express national tour drew the attention of Fox News Channel and an estimated crowd of more than 2,000 people when it stopped in Waco on Thursday afternoon.
Mark Williams, vice chairman of the Tea Party Express and a radio talk show host, said the Waco event had more supporters than any other tour stop, excluding the tour’s send-off rally Aug. 28 in Sacramento, Calif.
Tea Party Express, a bus tour traveling the country to rally opposition to high taxes, government spending and growth in the size of the government, arrived about 5 p.m. at Indian Spring Park in downtown Waco.
Waco Tea Party member Greg Jones, who said he plans to attend the tour’s culminating event, a Sept. 12 protest in Washington, D.C., said the tea party movement is all about fiscal responsibility, constitutional government and free enterprise.
Toby Walker, president of the Waco Tea Party, said the Tea Party Express chose Waco for a stop to help rally voters to unseat U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Waco.
“The Tea Party Express targeted 30 or 35 cities across the country that had congressmen in those districts that were high-taxes spenders and that were a close race in the last election cycle,” she said. “That’s why Waco was selected.”
John Wayne impersonator Gene Howard, a native of Bryan, kicked things off with a reading of his poem, “Son, Do You See Old Glory Flying Up There,” then led the crowd in the pledge of allegiance.
Later, citizen Bobby Keith spoke his mind.
“Our representatives are calling us an angry mob. Well, we are angry,” he said.
Keith won the right to speak at Thursday’s rally at a Waco Tea Party event on Independence Day, Walker said.
The most common concerns presented at the rally were government spending and the pending health care legislation.
Tea Party backers at the rally overwhelmingly opposed House Bill 3200, a proposed solution to health care woes that includes a public health insurance option.
“This health care plan, it’s going to drive us to bankruptcy,” Waco resident James Phillips said. “I heard Chet say the other day, ‘These people don’t represent, you know, everybody in my district.’ I think he’s turning a blind eye, and he’s going to get voted out of office if he don’t change his ways.”
Voting big-spending legislators out of Washington was a rampant theme at the event.
“2010 is coming, and we’re going to hand them a pink slip,” said Deborah Johns, vice chairwoman of the Our Country Deserves Better PAC and a speaker with the Tea Party Express.
The Waco Friends of Peace staged a counterprotest at the event. The dozen or so people who showed up stood in the middle of University-Parks Drive with a huge sign that read “Health care 4 all.”
Crawford resident Harrison Ward, with Waco Friends of Peace, wondered why Tea Party supporters weren’t vocal about increased government spending during the Bush administration.
“These folks seem to be really concerned about creating a lot of debt, but I want to know where they were the last eight years, when a great deal of debt was being established and the tax base was being destroyed at the same time,” Ward said.
Alan Northcutt of Waco Friends of Peace said he supports a public option for health care.
“We’ve got the best physicians in the world, and we’ve got the best technology. The problem is access,” Northcutt said. “We have 40 million Americans who don’t have health care insurance, and in a rich country like this, that’s morally unacceptable to us. There needs to be a public option, preferably a single-payer system.”
Griff Jenkins covered the rally for Fox News. Sean Hannity’s show “Hannity” and “On the Record” with Greta Van Susteren broadcast scenes from the Tea Party demonstration Thursday evening on Fox News.
Staff writer Tim Woods contributed to this story.
Good crowd indeed! Woo Hoo!
Any update on 2:45 PM Mt. Vernon Whistle Stop?
GODSPEED!!
I so hate having to miss the rally but my mom is pretty sick this morning from chemo(her last one was wednesday..we hope..she will have a Petscan soon to see where we are).
I am with you guys in spirit though and sending many prayers your way for safe travel and big big crowds at every stop!
GOD BLESS THE TEA PARTY PATRIOTS!!
I just did a drive by at the Dallas Tea Party stop. It’s going on right now and it has quite a turn out. I’m not very good at estimating a crowd size but there were easily 400 to 600 people there. Probably even more. We were seeing people walking from other parking areas a mile or so away. The lot was full.
Unfortunately, we had to get back to work, so we just drove by to show our support.
WooHoo way to go DFW!
Just caught a glimpse on channel 8..We get their noon news.
Great gathering.
Channel 8 (WFAA) in Dallas did a report at noon with an aerial view of the Tea Party. They never did show a wide view of the rally but they said there were a few thousand people at the tea party. Brad Watson did the report. He gave a rundown on the route and timetable and outlined tea party concerns as too much national debt and not agreeing with the health insurance reform plan. Brad Watson is not unbiased and seemed to me to have grudgingly taken this reporting assignment.
Thanks for the video link. Looks like a huge enthusiastic crowd.
Hope our Father in Freepdom’s Freepmobile is resurrected soon.
Sorry to be missing today’s tea parties. We’re still stuck in Dallas. The garage assured me they could have it done by tomorrow afternoon but I pressed them and they’re going to try to get it done by tonight. If we get the Freepmobile out of hock by 6:00 pm or so, we should be able to catch the Tea Party Express tonight in Memphis. If we don’t get it until tomorrow, we’re going to have a heck of a time catching up.
I was there. That was a decent local news report.
What’s wrong with the freepmobile?
WFAA (ABC affiliate) reported “huge crowd”, DPD said 2000 people, many scenes from Ch8 helicopter.
Fuel system “gunked up.” Fuel pump, injectors, plugs, filters, etc.
I am looking for poster ideas too, sorry I am no help. But, silly question, how do I seek out other FR’s without looking like a creep???? I may just put a label on that simply says “FR”
Hey, Jim.
Are they going to take care of it tonight? Hope you don’t miss the remainder of the Tea Parties.
I think you will be able to find other Freepers.
Are you coming to the Convention? Are you staying at the Sheraton? If not, you may be able to meet FReepers at one of the metro stops.
Me too! Hope the problems are fixed ASAP and Jim and Gary can get back on the road. Main thing is that they stay safe on the road! See you in DC!
The garage worked overtime to complete the job and delivered the Freepmobile to the hotel about a little while ago. We’re now loaded up and getting ready to hit the road. Woo hoo!! We’re on the red-eye express to Memphis!
Here’s a photostory link I made from the Addison event too! :-)
A good time was had by all!!!
Godspeed, JimRob! Hopefully there will be other chances in the future to meet in person—and not in any Obama ‘retraining camps’!!! :-O
Please, be safe, Jim. Don’t push it if you guys are tired.
Glad your car is fixed :)
Best ribs EVER.
We are with you guys in spirit and following every minute.
Tet.
That's great! We drove by about 11:30 and there were a lot of people there. There were also a lot of people walking towards the event.
Bump for next Rally!
Now passing through Little Rock. Two hours to Memphis.
This really scares me, because I once went to sleep at the wheel, and woke up with the rear-end of a tractor-trailer rig about 20 feet in front of me, coming fast... I barely had time to whip the wheel to the left and get around it! Didn't even have time to look left to see if a car was there. Thank God there was none. Ever since that, I'm very careful to not drive if I'm the least bit sleepy!
I once zoned out for about thirty-five minutes on I-40 in Tennessee until something woke me up to say "hey, that's your exit, and oh, don't hit the guy next to you."
That was the last time I ever drove while high on Code Red.
Be safe.
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