Posted on 04/14/2012 1:40:13 PM PDT by Hildy
SAN ANTONIO, TX -- Three years ago he was merely a face in a very large crowd, standing outside the Alamo on Tax Day as Glenn Beck spoke of drawing a line in the sand.
A businessman, husband, father of five and grandfather of 14, Bruce Baillio bought a miniature "Don't Tread on Me" flag and watched, a little sheepishly and mostly silently, as a movement was born before his eyes. Like most of America, he didn't know then what the tea party was.
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You described what happened to TEA Parties to a T.
To both the RINOs and the Pretender leaders chagrin, we are still all here when the right time comes.
I, too, was at that event. I worked setting up the overflow site at the entrance to Hemisfair Park. But I had to make my way to where the action was...what a day! If I ever get the time, I have some great footage to post.
I went there with about 10 other TX NG maintenance shop supervisors and we all had a beer in hand and one in a pocket. I really wanted to have a big US or Texas flag, but all I could find on our walk was something like a 10 X 16 inch Texas flag.
We all had a good time. We were all surprised at the turnout. There were people of every color / race there and not a single protester. No trash was left after the event either.
I didn't read the replies on this thread until a few minutes ago. We have three or four TEA Party candidates running in TX District 25 to replace lord dog nuts in Congress. It is now a 60% Conservative district and most of Austin is out of the picture, which should make it a easy pickup for our side. Texas got four additional congressional seats since 2010.
It never hurts to try. When my grand children later asked me why I didn’t try to stop the dictatorship I can at least tell them “I tried to”. I think those T E A parties did some good and helped us get some conservative congressmen.
You got that right!
You got that right!
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