Tomorrow, Tea Time is at 10:00
ByMany thanks to Jenny Bowen for hipping us to this. Since I got RIF’ed earlier this week (more on this later) and picked something else up almost immediately afterward (I start on Monday), I’ll have the time to check some of this out. Pictures and/or audio/visual content to follow.
Local Republicans will join a nationwide “Tea Party” from 10-1 p.m. Friday to protest the $787 billion federal stimulus package.
The 11 Congressional District Republican Party says a supporter has organized a local protest at Pritchard Park in downtown Asheville. The stimulus, signed into law by President Barack Obama, divided Congress, with nearly all Republicans voting against it.
The rally is part of a nationwide effort that began last Friday after conservative activists heeded CNBC’s Rick Santelli’s call for a “Nationwide Chicago Tea Party” to protest the Obama Administration’s bailout plan, according to a press release from the local Republican Party.
The Republican Party is not sponsoring the event, but party leaders wanted locals to know about it. Rally organizers ask those attending to dress in black “to show that the free-market system America was built on is dying, and to bring flags, cameras, cameras and camcorders…and we plan to wear a little war paint –- you know, in keeping with the theme and all,” according to the release.
Pritchard Park is at the intersection of Patton Avenue, College Street, and Haywood Street.
For further information, check out Jane Q. Republican or the group’s Facebook page.
The 11th Congressional includes Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey Counties. For a complete schedule of upcoming Republican meetings across the 11th District, visit www.wncgop.org
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February 26th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Thanks for the plug, Yoda.
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February 26th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
oops. wrong posting. Anywho, now that I’m here, I can’t help but wonder how many republicans in their rebellious anger will still be more than eager to catch those rebate checks they’ll soon be getting via that aforementioned stimulus. It sure will buy alotta tea indeed.
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February 27th, 2009 at 6:28 am
I think it’s raining at some point today. Let it rain frogs and boils on Pritchard Park between 10 and 2. So let it be written, so let it be done.
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February 27th, 2009 at 10:21 am
So after nearly bankrupting the country the republicans are now suddenly worried about spending? I wonder if they would feel any different if this stimulus package had included another big fat check to our Saudi overlords?
wankers
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February 27th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Heh… frogs and boils. I say “May they all be strapped to chairs with clamps on their eyes a la Burgess and be forced to watch ‘Magnolia’.”
I just got word from a Twitter peep whose office window happens to overlook Pritchard Park that there’s really nothing going on. Maybe 15 people at most, huddled close together.
Fuck ‘em. Let them catch pneumonia.
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February 27th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Be nice — wow, 15 people! What a statement!
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February 27th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
LOL… I think Arratik’s statement was nicer than it should’ve been
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February 27th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
I’m still confused about what any of this has to do with tea, or even the Boston Tea Party.
The BTP was essentially the extension of a boycott against the East India Company because of their monopoly on the importation of tea into the colonies, right? So are Republicans protesting monopolies? Corporate welfare? Cronyism? Limits on free trade? I just don’t get it.
And hearing about what’s going on in Pritchard Park reminds me of the Edenton Tea Party – one of the many minor acts of protest made in solidarity with the people of Boston – as described by Janet Schaw, a Scot who visited Wilmington just before the revolution:
Really, that sums it up. Republican elites, having backed the Bush administration to the hilt and having reaped the full benefits of cronyism, corporate welfare, and pro-business deregulation, have appropriated a symbol of real resistance to speak out against something that will never cause them any real hardship.
We’re fortunate to have such defenders of liberty in our midst.
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February 27th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
WLOS covered the event and took some interviews. It should be on the six o’clock report tonight.
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February 27th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
The same people who said it was destablizing to the very fabric of society if you didnt faithfully support the president.
And dont forget: Obama’s presidency is a failure one month in, but it’s still too soon for history to judge Bush’s legacy!
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February 27th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Here are seven photos from the days events:
http://picasaweb.google.com/docjen/RepublicanProtest22709#
There were only 15 or so people there – some of them drove over 90 minutes to stand in the rain with their signs.
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February 27th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
90 minute drive – that is so good for the environment especially in their SUVs. I hope they at least stimulanted the local economoy with lunch downtown or something.
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February 27th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
WLOS TV 13 news coverage
February 27, 2009, 12:00pm
http://snipr.com/cskrs
Photos
http://snipr.com/csll7
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February 28th, 2009 at 12:23 am
Tea party updates
Instapundit | February 27, 2009
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February 28th, 2009 at 2:48 am
There were only 15 or so people there
And there I was predicting 14 on the C-T’s site… somebody showed up and denied me the ‘hilariously woeful turnout’ pool.
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February 28th, 2009 at 8:48 am
And to protest the death of the free-market system, they will drive to a protest on publicly-funded roads, at a publicly-funded park, with rights protected by publicly-funded courts.
Which, thanks to the free market they love so much, are now made in Asia.
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