Posted by
Katy Grimes on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 6:01:58 PM
Today's Tea Party in Sacramento was really something to behold. There were
thousands and thousands of orderly, polite, friendly, clean, hard-working taxpayers.
My favorite sign of the day: "YOU LOST ME AT GEITHNER"
Standing in front of the Capitol, I witnessed Capitol staffers leaning out office windows to snap photos of the event. One legislator and staffer hung a banner from a balcony, which only elicited yells from a few in the crowd for them to come down and be with the voters. Instead they went back inside. The banner was difficult to read and had a number on it... it turns out that the banner claimed that the legislature claims to have saved us more than $26 million in budget cuts. Who do they think they are kidding? Not one state employee has been cut.
As I handed out flags, one man told me that he had been holding one just like it but was forced to give it up when he went inside the capitol. He said the police even forced him to put it on the ground. He asked why but no one would tell him. What's wrong with a state capitol that requires citizens to throw away their flags?
Eric Hogue (KTKZ 1380) broadcasted his show and fired up the thousands of patriots. Armstrong and Getty (KSTE 650) addressed the crown as did Mark Williams who also got the crowd excited. Tom McClintock spoke eloquently and firmly about excessive government spending. Michael Reagan was a speaker. Event organizer Mark Meckler was excellent as he explained the impetus for wanting to do the event and calling out Republican leadership.
The ever expanding Obama government was a theme amongst protest attendees as everyone in attendance at the Tax Day Tea Parties is a taxpayer, unlike most protestors. Obama's "95% of Americans will receive a tax cut" only means that more Americans will not be paying federal taxes anymore placing more of the burden on hard working middle America.