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More than 25000 attend Southfork Ranch tea party, organizer says

Dallas Morning News - Wendy Hundley - ‎4 hours ago‎
An estimated crowd of 25000 to 35000 people attended the Independence Day tea party at Southfork Ranch on Saturday, one organizer said. While the official figures haven't been tallied yet, Debbie Meyers said ...

Tea party protest at Southfork Ranch falls short of estimated ...

Dallas Morning News - Mark Norris - ‎7 hours ago‎
It was more than the heat that had people hot under the collar this Independence Day at Southfork Ranch. A range of issues from taxes to universal health care brought a crowd out to America's Tea Party. ...

'Tea Party' protests government, taxes

KOB.com - Cris Ornelas, Charlie Pabst - ‎4 hours ago‎
People at the Albuquerque Tea Party observed their Independence Day by exercising their right to free speech. Hundreds of protesters stood along Alameda to let everyone know how they feel about their government on the Fourth of July. ...

Tax protesters celebrate with Atlanta Tea Party

Atlanta Journal Constitution - Marcus K. Garner - ‎19 hours ago‎
Tax protesters kept with the Independence Day theme Saturday to declare their independence from federal policies. “It's time that we take the country back,” event organizer Bob Frady said to a crowd of more than 200 seated across ...

7 Hawaii 'tea parties' take aim at spending, increasing tax burden

Honolulu Advertiser - Katie Urbaszewski - ‎8 hours ago‎
Dozens of O'ahu residents gathered at the state Capitol yesterday to express their frustration with government spending and protest the burden they bear as taxpayers during a time when money is tighter than usual. ...

Tea Party protesters call for change

BurlingtonFreePress.com - Candace Page - ‎8 hours ago‎
ST. ALBANS BAY - Bob Shea of Fairfax led a preacher-like call and response with his audience of 75 protesters at the St. Albans Tea Party on Saturday. "Has the federal government exceeded its ...

Anti-tax Tea Party protests planned for Fourth

San Francisco Chronicle - Joe Garofoli - ‎Jul 2, 2009‎
(07-02) 20:28 PDT -- The next round of anti-tax Tea Party protests will be held nationwide on Saturday - July 4 - as organizers and leaders hope the 1300-plus events, including several in the Bay Area, evolve into a growing opposition movement to the ...

Washington DC And 600 other Cities held TEA Party Rallies on the ...

Best Syndication - ‎2 hours ago‎
[Best Syndication News] There was around 2000 protesters outside the US Capitol in Washington DC on the 4th of July to call attention to their “ Taxed Enough Already” (TEA) Party Day asking for a stop for runaway government spending. ...

TEA Party activists rally at Capitol

CNN - Rachel Streitfeld - ‎22 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Instead of celebrating the Fourth of July holiday with barbecues and sparklers, about 2000 small-government advocates, toting signs and chanting slogans, rallied outside the US Capitol Saturday. ...

Protest party

St. George Daily Spectrum - Kevin Jenkins - ‎10 hours ago‎
ST. GEORGE - Hundreds of people, many of them carrying protest signs, gathered at Vernon Worthen Park early Saturday morning for an Independence Day Tea Party protest against high taxes and ...

An acronym that has everyone talking

Examiner.com - ‎3 hours ago‎
While some celebrated Fourth of July with barbecues and sparklers, 2000 small-government advocates, holding signs and chanting slogans, rallied outside the US Capitol Saturday. What is the Tea Party Day? it is an acronym for "Taxed Enough Already" They ...

TEA Party draws tax-protesting crowd

Carlisle Sentinel - Kelly Wilson - ‎11 hours ago‎
A man wears a “Don't Treat On Me” flag over his shoulders at the TEA Party. Kelly Wilson/The Sentinel The threat of rising taxes wasn't the only thing on the minds of those who turned out for Saturday's ...

Tea party activists protest government expansions

Monterey County Herald - John Sammon - ‎12 hours ago‎
Approximately 120 people took the occasion of Independence Day to gather on the grassy field at Window on the Bay in Monterey to protest. Members of the Tea Party Patriots spoke against what they maintain are unconstitutional government ...

NJ 'tea party' rallies to be held on July 4

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Tanya Drobness - ‎Jul 3, 2009‎
Robert Sciarrino/The Star-ledgera crowd of more than one thousand attended a tax day tea party on the Morristown Green in April 2009. Taxpayers are rallying against government spending, high taxes and the passing on a ...

Locals celebrate freedom, protest big government

Twin Falls Times-News - Jared S. Hopkins - ‎13 hours ago‎
Justin Bovee leads a demonstration Saturday at the TEA Party in front of the Twin Falls County Courthouse to illustrate the problems of expanded government. About 200 people turned out for the event to celebrate Independence Day and ...

Spirited protest marks 'Tea Party'

Louisville Courier-Journal - Marcus Green, Michael Hayman - ‎12 hours ago‎
On a day marking the nation's declaration of independence from England, protesters gathered in downtown Louisville on Saturday for a declaration of their own: Enough is enough. ...

250 gather for July 4 'Tea Party'

Lincoln Journal Star - ‎14 hours ago‎
By the Lincoln Journal Star About 250 people gathered on the steps of the State Capitol at noon Saturday to celebrate the “Nationwide Independence Day Tea Party,” a protest rally being held around the country. Organizers handed out pocket copies of the ...

Thousands take part in 'tea party' protest against high taxes in ...

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Nyier Abdou - ‎Jul 4, 2009‎
by The Star-Ledger Continuous News Desk Some 2000 people gathered in Morristown to mark the nation's birth with an old-style political protest as part of nationwide anti-taxation protests fashioned on the Boston Tea Party. ...

TEA Party protests federal spending

Towanda Daily Review - James Loewenstein - ‎13 hours ago‎
SOUTH WAVERLY — More than 100 people attended a TEA Party rally Saturday in South Waverly, which was held primarily to protest spending in the trillions of dollars by the federal government, which participants say will leave a debt ...

Tea Party protestors declare independence Saturday

Daily Comet - Matt Stamey - ‎15 hours ago‎
Dressed as Betsy Ross, Stacy Hargenrader, 53, speaks during the Houma Tea Party rally Saturday along Main Street in Downtown Houma. By Naomi King HOUMA — A rally to protest what organizers call wasteful government spending and threats on their rights ...

Low Tax Advocates Protest Across the Nation

ToTheCenter.com - ‎3 hours ago‎
About 2000 protestors rallied outside of the US Capitol on Independence Day in a response to what they call “runaway spending” by the Obama Administration. Members of TEA, “Taxed Enough Already,” had particular qualms with the $787 billion stimulus ...

Round 2 of Tea Party protests: a political powerhouse in the making?

Christian Science Monitor - Patrik Jonsson - ‎Jul 3, 2009‎
Protests against taxes and red ink are set for this weekend. Their potential to form a formidable national movement is unclear. By Patrik Jonsson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Atlanta - Concerned about taxes, bailouts, ...

Hundreds turn out at Schenley Park for a 'tea party' protest

Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Moriah Balingit - ‎16 hours ago‎
More than 1000 gathered for the Pittsburgh Independence Day Tea Party held on Flagstaff Hill in Schenley Park yesterday. They rallied against tax hikes, against abortion rights, against the notion that global ...

Speaking out at the Tea Party

Morning Sentinel - Keith Edwards - ‎17 hours ago‎
AUGUSTA -- Attendees of the Independence Day Tea Party rally came for many reasons -- to speak out against what they called the "socialistic liberal agenda," to petition against gay marriage and to speak up for individual rights and ...

Some East Texans voice frustrations at area tea parties

News-Journal.com - Jimmy Isaac - ‎17 hours ago‎
On the holiday celebrating when American colonists declared their independence with signatures, hundreds of East Texans braved near triple-digit temperatures in Longview and Gilmer to sign petitions craving independence of a different ...

Tea Party Protests Government

KSWT-TV - ‎15 hours ago‎
Tea party, take two. Protesters against high taxes and deficit spending by the government, used tax day to get their message out in events across the country. It's estimated the April 15th events drew up to 500000 people to more than 800 separate ...

More than 2000 tax, Big Government protests in all 50 states

WND.com - ‎6 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON – More than 2000 tea parties from coast to coast attracted hundreds of thousands tax and Big Government protesters on Independence Day – perhaps the biggest July 4 political event in America since the proclamation of the Declaration of ...

Tea Bagging Protestors Decry Government Spending Policies

TriCities.com - ‎16 hours ago‎
A crowd gathers to listen to speakers at Saturday's “Tea Party” on the steps of the Bristol Virginia Courthouse. By Debra mccown BRISTOL, Va. – On the steps of the courthouse Saturday, a small group rallied for political change. ...

Holiday marked by anti-tax Tea Parties

Washington Times - Donald Lambro - ‎20 hours ago‎
Fourth of July "Tea Party" rallies, picnics, marches and other demonstrations were scheduled across the country Saturday to protest what organizers say is record federal spending and taxes by the Obama ...

'Tea Party Patriots' protest 'evil and wickedness'

Terre Haute Tribune Star - Brian M. Boyce - ‎18 hours ago‎
TERRE HAUTE — Saturday's rain might have fizzled the sparklers, but “Tea Party Patriots” loosed verbal fireworks off the Vigo County Courthouse steps nonetheless. More than 280 picketers protested along Third Street on the courthouse ...





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