Posted on 09/01/2009 3:22:08 PM PDT by GVnana
Excellent video at the link. Thank you Flagstaff for the great big Western Welcome!
Found this on an AARP Online Community website:
Tea Party Express - What a night in Flagstaff
http://www.aarp.org/community/groups/displayTopic.bt?groupId=1162&topicId=3838551 lousygolfer said: on September 1, 2009 12:40 PM ET Last night the Tea Party Express (http://www.teapartyexpress.org) - a caravan from L.A. to Washington stopped here in Flagstaff.
A Democrat sheriff with 32 years in office, a Republican state treasurer and plain ole citizens spoke to over 1,000 people (in a town of just over 50,000) about returning our country to a critical services oriented, thrifty conservator of our money.
Healthcare was a key topic - everybody there knew that the plan and the assertion of decent services and economic viability are a sham to promote a personal, liberal agenda - that is, except the 20+ protestors with signs like "Tax the Rich. Insure the Working Poor." Evidently they don't know that there is not one person who can be denied admission to emergency or hospital care regardless of their ability to pay.
50:1 against ObamaCare? Politicians, do you understand the word "minority" when it comes to voters?
The Tea Party Express moves on through New Mexico, Texas, Missouri, Illinois and works its way through the rust belt, NorthEast and eventually winds up September 12 in Washington. I hope readers of this will go to their local rally and buy a "Don't Tread on Me" flag from Kenneth Gladney, the African American who dared to protest at Carnahan's alleged town hall meeting.
Why the silence, eh? I mean I just suggested we thank them for their thorough coverage of this spontaneous, unpaid gathering of American patriots!!!!!
( sarc. off)
Thats Flagstaff....(sheesh).
Are you a beer drinker?
Great crowd. I wonder why so Flagstaff had thousands and Vegas didn’t have a great showing?
The lamps on the Liberty Tree are lit & messages of Liberty are thereon. Rejoice ye sons & daughters of Liberty.
I just got back from the Albuquerque Tea Party - great crowd there too (several hundred anyway). The entertainment was top notch!
We should change the name from Labor Day To Patriots Day!
Roll on, Tea Party Express!
You are the true spirit of America.
Bump for Albuquerque!
This is why we watch FOX. They have their issues, and God knows we all piss and moan about them from time to time. But you are not going to get this kind of coverage from anybody. Great job Greta.
If this is the scene in Flagstaff, Washington should be quaking in its boots. (Funny, no sign of our beloved Senator McCain among several other no shows.)
Is Falstaff really beer though?
The folks in Vegas were too busy gambling.
As far as Las Vegas not being a larger group - Well, it's a Union town you know.
As far as Las Vegas not being a larger group - Well, it's a Union town you know.
What a neat bunch of people we had in Flagstaff...very articulate, vocal, intelligent, polite, humorous...and the really amazing part is that Flagstaff is a college town and chock full of Liberals. Arizona had 3 counties vote Democrat in the last election, and Flagstaff is in the center of one of them.
See this thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2329863/posts
Describes Vegas as “sweltering.” Sacramento was 100+ degrees and I believe that affected the turnout as well (although Sacramento was still a big event).
I hope they all Come to DC ,these Individual ones are Great ,but I want the one in DC to be Massive
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