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April 15, 2009

So, I Made the Smaller of P-cola's Two Tea Parties

It was a GORGEOUS day and this turned out to be a great little crowd considering the weekday/workday time frame. Three or four hundred folks together in this humble burg is nothing to sneer at. Our narrow old downtown streets were slammed with traffic.

The signs were a' waving and everyone seemed to be in a convivial mood, in spite of the theme of the day.

Or maybe because of it. They really started coming in around 3 and the flow picked up steadily until well after 4. Then everyone marched down to the waterfront and back to the park: more speechifying and the grand finale.

Up at University Mall ~ the site of the rally whose organizing missteps caused much consternation this week ~ thankfully, there were about a thousand folks, give or take a couple hundred, and everyone was completely charged! (Well, everyone NOT sitting in the massive traffic jam it caused.) All in all, a damn fine, amiable turnout for a working class county. Made our point? Schmaybe. Made us feel better?

Oh, yeah.

Posted by tree hugging sister at April 15, 2009 11:41 PM

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I was at the Tea Party in downtown Tampa yesterday. Wonderful day, wonderful folks, and a wonderful time. When I get off mein Po I'll post about it.

Posted by: barking spider at April 16, 2009 09:38 AM

Great! We'll be by to check it out.

How many folks do you think came out in the big city?

Posted by: tree hugging sister at April 16, 2009 01:14 PM

Looks like real grass to me. Maybe the astroturf is hiding in the closet, or in the CNN truck.

Posted by: Yojimbo at April 17, 2009 10:52 AM

Went with my mom to a smallish one in downtown Philly in the pouring rain (go figure, everybody else had nice weather). All the speakers were good, but the first one was a 16 year old high school student. He was fantastic.

Policewoman asked the organizer for the permit and was very impressed that everything was in order.

Posted by: Kate P at April 17, 2009 10:53 PM