Baton Rouge Independence Day Tea Party, UDPATED
posted at 9:42 am on July 6, 2009 by Laura
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The Baton Rouge Tea Party folks did a fabulous job on the Independence Day Rally. In spite of the brain-melting heat there was a turnout of around 500 people, according to an unofficial police estimate. Meaning I asked a cop and he took a wild guess. There wasn’t a good angle to get the entire crowd, but here are a few photos so you can judge the crowd size for yourselves. About 40 yards down from the steps was another crowd of 75-100 people in a grassy area with shade. There were also some pretty good signs.
One of the first speakers was a woman who lived in Cuba when Castro took power. She gave a very sobering talk about parallels between what happened in Cuba and what’s happening here today. Other speakers covered cap-and-tax, health care reform (with a nice plug for Cato), and a heads up on how to get free activist training so we can be more effective rabblerousers.
The GOP was attempting to recruit and failing miserably. What do you make of that?
Update: Shocking – or, not really so shocking, but it should be – the Baton Rouge news outlets did not report on this gathering, even though at least one station was there. As of this writing, the only news on the web for this tea party is this post.
Imagine, for a moment, 500 anti-war activists going unreported. Or 500 illegal alien advocates. It would never happen.
Well. They can ignore us, but we won’t go away. To the contrary, I received an email with info for a protest in about six weeks. I’ll be there.
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I’d like to suggest an idea. If anybody plans on attending the All Star game in St. Louis, wear yellow (as in the “Don’t Tread On Me” flag), as a symbol of support of the Tea Party movement.
Star20 on July 6, 2009 at 1:00 PM
jonrademacher on July 6, 2009 at 10:38 AM
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Two of my kids and I were there. My son asked if I thought there were enough people there to make politicians notice. I said I didn’t know, but that if we all went out and worked to inform others they might notice in the next election.
Having it on July 4 meant that it competed with other things that people could be doing, which probably lowered the attendance. But like someone else said, it was a slow news day so it should have appeared in the news.
I don’t know if the Journal-Star had anything either. I won’t have that paper in my house because I feel like I have to correct the blatant mistakes – which is most of the paper. I’ve written to them too many times to have them correct their content and they never will. Never.
justincase on July 6, 2009 at 1:01 PM
We had almost 6000 in brutal heat here in Houston and not ONE media outlet reported on it.
Rightwingsparkle on July 6, 2009 at 1:16 PM
Another “Chains” pic for y’all — http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=570599&l=e981b0148c&id=1214068603
From the capitol building steps @ Lansing MI; fairly ‘healthy’ turnout — not much ink anywhere.
CaveatEmpty on July 6, 2009 at 1:32 PM
Maybe these Tea Parties would get some press coverage if the attendees carried pitch forks instead of signs.
cjs1943 on July 6, 2009 at 2:29 PM
Sparkle
KHOU covered it but it was critical mostly
EricPWJohnson on July 6, 2009 at 2:29 PM
RedbonePro on July 6, 2009 at 2:57 PM
http://www.centralvalleyteaparty.com/
At least 7,500 showed up at one of the California Tea Parties, and so did the press. California is waking up, especially after the Water Rally with 15,000 protesters in downtown Fresno on July 1st. Sure the link says 4,000 but the Police went to Phase II when 10,000 showed up, and they went to Phase II at 10 am, the rally started at 12.
NTWR on July 6, 2009 at 6:12 PM
Hey Grow, I did what you suggested and immeditaely found a blog posting about Cynthia Sheehan holding an anti war protest in DC this past March and her complaints about how the media failed to cover it, with the implication that now that Obama is in charge, the media is responding differently.
Other responses had a similar flavor, pointing out the difference in coverage for very similar and news-worthy events. Thanks for the suggestion.
Red State State of Mind on July 7, 2009 at 12:04 AM
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