You couldn't get more people than that to show up?O ye of little faith!
Judging by these photos it looks like the California GOP has a defeatist attitude!
You guys need to get to work there in Sacramento.
We bust our buns to get some quick pix posted online after a LONG day of FReeping - during an INTENSE series of back-to-back-to-back-to-back FReeps over the last several weeks and months - and already you're bitching about what we are and are NOT doing here - based on EXTREMELY limited information. :o)FYI, from a little LATER in the FReep:
If you'll notice the shot of me ("eGray Hooker #1") posted earlier on this thread - in front of the dump truck - I was just getting dressed (!) I would therefore estimate that most of these images posted at the top of this thread were taken between 12:45 and 1:15 pm - for a rally scheduled for from 1 pm to 3 pm.
1 - There was a HUGE crowd - somewhat later - which we captured MASTERFULLY on video (primarily)I do, however, have a suggestion.
Video FReep reports are MUCH more powerful, but they require several DAYS to process and edit, and therefore do not give the "instant gratification" of still pictures - so you will have to trust us for a little while that this FReep was an AMAZING success,2 - MANY of the local northern California Simon supporters were out walking precincts and manning telephones - as a part of the VITALLY important "Get Out The Vote" efforts - and as a result were therefore NOT at our rally,
3 - The vast expanse of the courtyard in fron of the South Steps would dwarf a crowd of a THOUSAND!
Note that the "little, tiny" FIRE Gray Davis barely visible in the distance shot upon which you are "judging" - for example - was ten feet wide and mounted ten feet off the ground.4 - For MOST of this rather hot California afternoon, the bulk of the crowd was off in the shade on either side if the courtyard - out of range of any camera images centered on the podium,
5 - At least a dozen MORE FReepers were at the opposite end of the courtyard, intimidating the four union thugs that vainly attempted a COUNTER-protest...
Since WE are so busy out there FReeping - all OVER California, day after day after day - so much so that after a while one event blurs into the next, and we do not have time to adequately chronicle our many adventures in anti-Davis, pro-Simon "street theater" here......why don't YOU get off your scrawny butt and fly out here from wherever you are, and fulfill the role of our "Simon FReep" historian.
We certainly could use an extra pair of hands out here in the streets - much more than we could use a back-seat-driving Monday-morning-quarterbacking thumb-sucking whiner trying to second guess the depth of our passion.
And I mean that in the NICEST possible way. :O)