Saint Paul Minnesota Tea Party

Taxed Enough Already – Tea Party
April 15th 2009

The Saint Paul, Minnesota Tea Party was a success!  It was held at the Minnesota State Capitol out front on the steps and front lawn of the Capitol building.  The Tea Party drew approximately 10,000 ***UPDATE Rally organizers claimed about 10,000 during the rally, but now have revised that down to 7,500+. However, when you add up the totals for all the rallies in the Minnesota about 11,600+ people rallied for lower taxes. *** people to  the rally and almost no gate cashers or trouble makers.  They also managed to get the local news media out to actually cover the event.  I saw Channel 5 cameras, van and helicopter.  I also saw vans for channel 9 and 11.  There was one other helicopter but I did not see the name on the side. 

They had many speakers talking about the lack of responsibility being demonstrated by our elected officials on both sides of the aisle.  One speaker was a Veteran that reminded us that the men and women who volunteer to serve in the Military and our Congressman take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution.  The only difference is when a member of the Military takes that oath he or she signs and open check payable to the Government and the citizens of this country and when cashed it can even mean giving up their life for their country.  When a Congressman takes that oath too many times it  it is looked at as an obstacle to maintaining their power and is often scoffed or laughed at.

Lets be clear, we are not anti-tax as the Liberal news media claims. We believe in paying taxes to support Constitutionally approved services.  Paying for our Military is Constitutional yet Liberals have spent the last eight years complaining about the Constitutional spending by President Bush.  We are against the bailouts started by President Bush and continued with full gusto by Obama.  We are against most if not all the spending programs Obama is advocating. We do not want Government Health Care, mortgage bailouts for people that should never have been given a mortgage in the first place and so much more of Obama's budget.  Obama is in favor of Socialism we are in favor of Capitalism.

Local News stories on the Tea Party
KSTP Channel 5  http://kstp.com/news/stories/S880317.shtml?cat=1

It seems channel 5 news is the only news station that is still about the news.  I am not finding any significant stories in any of the other news stations or papers.

--UPDATE--

I did find that Kare 11 finally did a news story on the Tea Party, but they spent more time talking about those that like tax increases instead.

--END UPDATE--

WCCO FAIL
WCCO Channel 4
http://wcco.com/video/?id=58696@wcco.dayport.com

Their Pat Kessler gave a live video report before the rally started and claimed only 1000 people showed up. Lets remember the rally started at 5pm and people really started showing up after they got off of work. By 6pm we had close to 7,000 people and by the end the rally organizers announced there were around 10,000 people at the rally.

Power Line has a great video of the rally

In other news

Earlier in the day a small group of people showed up at the Capitol, literally 12 people, claiming they wanted fair taxation. Tax cuts for the poor and tax the rich their fair share for a change.  I guess these people are part of the public education system since the poor already pay no taxes and the so called rich are paying far more than their fair share in taxes.  This group calls themselves Alliance for a Better MN.  This is a scam group that really advocates punishing the productive people.  Even though they were able to meet in a small room in the Capitol they get more news coverage.

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=619732&catid=2 

Related Sites:

MN Tea Party  http://teapartymn.com/2009/04/16/we-came-we-rallied-but-what-did-the-media-say/