MacIver News Service – [Madison, Wisc.] A crowd that organizers estimated well in excess of 10,000 people attended the Tax Day Tea Party at the East entrance of the State Capitol Thursday.
The throng heard from more than a dozen speakers, including locals tea party organizers from across the state, radio talk show hosts and former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson. Thompson told the cheering crowd that, despite chants from the assembled of “Run,Tommy, Run,” and despite his desire to take on Senator Russ Feingold this November, he would honor a promise made to his family and allow the next generation of conservative leaders to take up the cause.
“Boy do I want to run,” he screamed, his face turning red in the middle of his speech in which he roundly criticized Feingold. “I’d love to take this on. But I told my family last night it’s time for new voices and new faces.”
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Now Wisconsin you guys are outstanding and Paul Ryan is from WI and there is another greatness of WI. People are inspired all over the US defending the Country whose Constitution was created over 200 yrs ago with the guidance of God himself, well God himself is guiding us now after all who do you think really woke all of us up? You go Wisconsin and God Bless the USA.
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Wow. God must have been involved here…because I was there today, and the ONLY way there were 10,000 people was if the Lord himself multiplied them, you know, the way Jesus magically created enough food for the throngs with only a few loaves of bread and a fish.
What I really saw was a large crowd of mostly middle-aged to older white males, holding cheap signs, obviously forgetting the social security checks and medicare benefits they are receiving. Oh, and as for Paul Ryan being outstanding–puh leeze. Another white man that speaks in tid bits and really says nothing. And does nothing.
Was amazed to see such hate and anger in so few people.
Don’t forget to turn in your census forms, and Go, Russ, Go!
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Mike LaCroix Reply:
April 16th, 2010 at 12:50 AM
Yeah….LOL Sure was a lot of hate and anger! How about all those Capital Police beating people back? Wasn’t that something? If you were one of the 64 people across the street with the “russ” signs, I fully understand your bitterness. Didn’t even get a mention in any of the news stories that I saw. You could have come over and joined us. We would have welcomed you and even enjoy friendly debates. Oh, that’s right, the older “white males” must have been pretty intimidating.
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DeathofFreedom Reply:
April 16th, 2010 at 12:43 PM
Notice on your paycheck where YOU pay into social security. Government did a wonderful job telling the people that if they put money aside then when they retired they would get a check. Those so called older people PAID into social security all their working lives so Gov is not doing them a favor. Also, government has spent the social security and it is going broke because of GOV MISMANAGEMENT. The cheap signs well that is because they are working people that don’t have Unions paying for their shirts and signs. You talk very racist then you have the freedom to be racist it is ok as long as you don’t say black. Stay with your crowd it will be your children and grandchildren trying to pay this debt this President has tripled. We were suppose to have change from Bush ways, instead we have more debt in ONE year than Bush created in EIGHT, nice change, if you don’t mind I won’t Believe in it.
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Jap128k Reply:
April 16th, 2010 at 9:50 PM
Paco Pepe what you are forgetting is most of those men worked the last 30 or 40 years and have paid more money than you can imagine into a system that now can no longer deliver what they were promised.
They are trying to prevent a system they have paid into and a country many of them by no choice of their own have defended its freedom only to watch the generations behind them think there are “free rides.” NO ONE is entitled to anything that you have not contributed to.
God bless them for being the voice of those of us who are working to keep our children fed, houses to live in and the other freedoms we enjoy.
If you don’t like it – you have the freedom to live anywhere in the world you want and then you won’t have to worry about “middle aged gray haired men” gathering in our capitol trying to stop the bleeding our state continues to suffer from.
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WIpatriot Reply:
April 23rd, 2010 at 7:41 AM
Funny thing, I saw just as many women there! I don’t believe there were 10,000, more like 12,000 people there, something I’m sure our state run news media underreported immensely. And I hear a lot of patriotism and common sense from Paul Ryan, very little of that from Feingold. In fact I can’t recall Feingold asked for his views on anything recently the speaks of common sense government. Tea party on!!!
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The crowd was somewhere between 2,600 and 3,000, probably on the low end of that range. Althouse has an even lower estimate. In any case, it was a huge drop from last year’s event:
http://reform-dem.blogspot.com/2010/04/massive-drop-in-attendance-at-madison.html
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God didn’t write the Constitution. It’s a well known fact that the founding fathers had diverse ideas on religion. True. There is moral guidance in the Bible. I wish people would use that moral guidance to stop hate and bigotry. Sorry MacIver Institute. Check out MSNBC to see just how off base TeaBagger are from the real facts.
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WIpatriot Reply:
April 23rd, 2010 at 7:34 AM
MSNBC is doesn’t have a real fact to their credit and hasn’t for some time now! In fact, they are big on race bating the tea party patriots, so I suggest you get YOUR facts right!
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