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.
Hi Hoffer Rand!
Actually, we did have about 200 at the one in downtown Ogden! There could’ve been more. I forgot to sign in, but I stayed for about an hour. I had to pick up 2 of my little grandkids from their bus; but I wanted so much to bring them back to the tea party! Trouble is, it was quite rainy and chilly and one of them had been coughing; so I thought maybe I should just bring them home.
However, I sure enjoyed the hour I was there! We got a lot of cars honking and waving at us down Washington Blvd.! Some people had brought some extra signs, so I got to hold one for awhile; and that was fun! (I’d never been to a protest before)A lot of young high school-age people were there. We do have Weber State University near-by, so it’s possible a lot of young people came from there.
We also had a number of 50-60ish people there, as well a quite a handful of senior citizens! Bless their hearts, because like I said, it was pretty chilly and rainy off and on through the day! Ogden’s Republican mayor even came out to join them for a short time. He seems to be always in trouble with some people! (usually the Dems. in his council!) He’s a good egg anyway; and a pretty good sport!
Someone handed him a “bill” reminding him of some taxes or fees he must’ve been responsible for, but he didn’t seem to take offense at all. Like I said, he was a good sport in spite the scolding, and even spoke to the crowd for a little bit! There was at least one other tea-party that took place up in Brigham City too. Some of these smaller ones weren’t on the main Tea Party websites, because I didn’t hear about the one in Ogden, until my Mom said she saw it in the paper.
I don’t know if it was more of a last-min. event or what! I think we may have had more people come, if more people had known about it a little sooner, or if they were afraid it was called off for weather, or if it was of it being held on a week-day, I don’t know!
There was supposed to be one in Brigham City, UT, also according to list of “head count” on the thread, there was one in Logan, UT also! I didn’t know Logan was going to have one! There was supposed to be one in Davis County, UT, but the organizer decided against it.