Posted on 03/24/2010 1:03:04 PM PDT by george76
a Tea Party Express rally coming Saturday, a sort of conservative mini-Woodstock in the desert that organizers expect to draw 5,000 to 10,000 people -- maybe more -- from across the country, most of whom want to end the career of Nevada's most powerful politician.
Diane Kendall, the local real estate agent who helped pin down the private property for the "Showdown in Searchlight," embodies the townsfolk who aren't so fond of Reid and support the Tea Party movement's efforts to elect conservatives who believe less government is better government.
"I agree with what the Tea Party people are doing,"... "It's time for Americans to stand up. It's time for the people to wake up.''
Besides Palin, other advertised speakers include ...
Reid's grandfather, John, came to Searchlight in 1902, stayed until 1910, then returned more than a decade later. .. His father, Harry, was a hard-rock miner and a drunk who sometimes hit his mother. Reid, a former boxer who got into street fights, too, calls the experience character building.
A recent poll by the Las Vegas Review-Journal bears this out, showing that a Tea Party candidate could get 18 percent of the vote and the GOP nominee 32 percent, leaving Reid a winning 36 percent.
(Excerpt) Read more at lvrj.com ...
Showdown at the OK Corral 2.0
HUH???? The guy would be 108 yrs old @ the least!
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I’m thinking there will be 500,000.
I want to go the the one in Nashville on Easter Sunday. No where have I seen the exact location there... anyone know?
I think this was an excerpt. There was other stuff before the grandfather thang.
Attention--pass the word. Give NO business to the SearchLight Nugget.
Whew...I knew something didn’t sound right.
“Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a Tea Party darling and failed GOP vice presidential...”
Stopped reading this piece of Obamunist media trash right there.
- JP
I would love to be there.
The town of searchlight is about three blocks long. I don’t even think there’s a signal light in the town.
However - the clark county cops are not known for their curtesy or caracter.
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