Tea, coffee, and outrageous signage (“You shoved it down our throat March 21st. We’re going to shove it up your ass Nov. 2nd”) were spotted across Upstate New York yesterday, as part of the national Tea Party protests that used Tax Day as an opportunity to protest the current Democratic regime.
Over 100 people protested in the Town of Ulster, according to the Daily Freeman, which has scads of video. (Commenters on the Freeman story are saying that the Freeman underestimated the attendance, which they say was more like several hundred.) Our favorite was this lady:
Graceann Lamberta of Germantown attended Tuesday’s event with a sign that displayed a woman’s pink slip and the phrase “Dems pink slip in November.”
The Times Herald-Record, which was at the same protest, pegged the attendance at more like 350. Their best man-in-the-crowd encounter was this one:
Kingston resident Charlie Redner was among the crowd that later gathered along Route 9W. Redner came dressed for the occasion. He's a Revolutionary War re-enactor when he's not busy making a living as a mechanic.
The Record also has a nice photo gallery of tea parties here.
Meanwhle, in Norwich, in Chenango County, the Daily Star didn't hazard a guess about how many people showed up at the rally it covered:
Organized by Gilda Ward of Guilford, Charlie Ressiguie of Norwich and others, the Chenango County gathering, slated to run seven hours, drew scores of people at a time, some staying all day, others moving on.
And this isn't the end of the beverage party festivities for the week. The founder of the national Coffee Party is coming to the Muddy Cup in New Paltz on Sunday to stir up more fun.
Photo of a tea party protestor in Rochester, NY yesterday by Charles Simmins, via Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/chucksimmins/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
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