-=> On 07-05-09 12:10 ROY WITT wrote to JIM HOLSONBACK <=-


 JH> I'm off for the local tea party.


 RW> I would have been, but with 100 degree temps, I'm not going to suffer
 RW> that. Especially when the crowd here is estimated to be at no less than
 RW> 15, 000.

It was right warm here as well, with 94 the high for the day.  A couple
things helped with that, one being that ours didn't start until 530pm.
I got there a bit later, and ours was in a large ampitheater used
sometimes for rock concerts, etc.  There are some tall trees nearby, so
a good number of seats on the west side of the seating area were in the
shade by the time I got there.

The crowd here was a bit smaller than the one on 4/15, which was
reported to be somewhere around 5K.  Per the local police, their
estimate of attendance at this one was around 3K.  In addition to the
heat, I'm sure the lure of other 4 July activities kept the crowd
smaller than it might have otherwise been.

I think I saw that they may have another one of these get-togethers in
Sep, the weekend after Labor Day.   That may not work out too well here
since that's football season, and here in central AL most everyone is a
rabid college football fan, and they all root for either AL or Auburn.

Anyway, it was pretty interesting to see that many people interested
enough to come out, and it was an eclectic mix of conservatives of
various stripes - including independents, libertarians, Ron Paul
rooters, Constitution party, etc.

- - -  JimH.



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