Tea Party Total Head Count Thread (Post Your Attendance Numbers Here)

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 | Kristinn

[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.

[KansasGirl]

Mt. Juliet, TN—2,500 people

Murfreesboro, TN—2000 people

http://www.topix.com/city/mount-juliet-tn/2009/04/2500-right-wing-extremists-attend-mount-juliet-tn-tea-party

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2230217/posts

[BobS]

"My opinion is that he doesn't care."

Obama cares. By saying he doesn't know reveals fear. They shut down the white house because of a box of Lipton tea thrown over the fence there while a RC robot looked at it.

A king ignored the first tea party and nobody covered it then. They didn't need recognition by either a king or media and they went pretty far.

[Henchster]

Thanks everyone, we are now up to 431 cities, and between 573,000 and 650,000 patriots!

You can check to see if your tea party is listed HERE if not, post a comment on this thread citing the city, state and headcount.

[BobS]

Popups are blocked by me.

Add to your list Simi Valley - Reagan library entrance - 150 people at any one time. People can't hang out during the week there. Do thousands of blowing car horns count?

[KansasGirl]

Tullahoma, TN—650 people

http://www.sebourn.com/2009/04/tullahoma-tea-party-turnout/

[KansasGirl]

Tullahoma, TN—650 people

http://www.sebourn.com/2009/04/tullahoma-tea-party-turnout/

[2CAVTrooper]

Wetumpka had roughly 250+/- by my guess.

I’ll look around and see if anyone has any better figures.

[Gvl_M3]

Since we seem to be about the only place trying to get a true count of the Tea Parties across the country, I was wondering if this thread could be placed at the top of the main forum page in RED so it gets more input from the Freepers.

Thanks,
Chris

[DocRock]

My daughter attended a Tea Party at the University of Florida in Gainseville, FL. She will be sending pics later, but she called me while in attendance and told me there were 2-300 people there. I cannot find any links to news reports but I'm still looking.

My mother attended a Tea Party in Madisonville, KY and called while in attendance and told me there were 75 to 100 people there, an hour before the rally. I cannot find any links to news reports on this Tea Party either.

Here is a link to another Tea Party in Gainesville, FL which was different than the one my daughter attended at UF. Unfortunately, the reporter on states, "Hundreds Attend", however, it does give a total of 1000 for all Tea Parties in Gainesville, FL

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20090416/ARTICLES/904169971

[Jim Robinson]

Correction for Fresno. The final tally is 7,500 attendees.

[TnGOP]

Here’s one I haven’t seen posted: Fayette County, Tn (Somerville) reporting over 500. Found it here: http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-244855

[TnGOP]

And this one: DeSoto County, Mississippi (Hernando) see below, from the DeSoto Times Online:

HERNANDO - Seven-year-old Benjamin Mullins of Lewisburg was among the estimated 1,200 people who showed up on the DeSoto County Courthouse Square Wednesday for the DeSoto County Area Tax Day TEA Party.

[BobS]

"Yes, I missed many - feel free to continue updating the list."

There are too many for you to count alone. Somebody is working full-time with others to get an accurate count of people going to TEA Parties. It's well over a thousand parties from small to big. Not even counting neighborhood BBQ's.

There will probably be a press conference in DC at CATO, AEI or some other one.

[KansasGirl]

Pajamas Media is also working on a attendees number.

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/pjtvs-crowd-estimates-for-tea-parties-still-climbing/

Here are reports from citizen journalists w/ crowd estimates. There are A LOT of numbers missing. We need to cross reference ours and get our numbers to them. I have already sourced all the KS numbers but do not know how to report it to them.

http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=view-events&page=3&results-per-page=20&type=1&sort=name&reverse=false&category=2&state=

[Henchster]

Thanks everyone, we are now up to 437 cities, and between 580,000 and 655,000 patriots!

You can check to see if your tea party is listed HERE if not, post a comment on this thread citing the city, state and headcount.

[TnGOP]

WBBJTV in Jackson, Tn. is saying there were over 800 events, and 24 in Tennessee alone. There was one in Brownsville and Jackson, and Jackson will have another on the 24th. No numbers on either. Still looking.

[KansasGirl]

See #775 for up to date list

[Larightgirl]

Here in small town Natchitoches, Louisiana we had about 200-300 people.

[Hoffer Rand]

I don’t have headcounts, but I know there were at least 4 other Tea Parties in Utah, besides the one you have listed at the federal building: another in SLC, one in Ogden, and 2 in the Provo area.

dsutah was at the one in Ogden. Maybe you can get a headcount from him/her.

[ctdonath2]

Excellent! Thanks.