[Speed Gibson,
Sunday April 15, 2007 at 11:29am]
Cut Taxes Now! Cut Taxes Now!
I've been to every one of the April tax rallies, including yesterday's. I could be wrong, but I think this was the largest to date. There was quite a turnout at the first one that featured Jesse Ventura, but I think this one was larger. Someone said 5 to 7 thousand, I'd say even 5 might be pushing it, but certainly there were thousands.
The "global warming" event was insignificant by comparison, outnumbered 5 to 1, a few hundred at best. At one point, a number of them gathered at the edge of the tax rally, presumably to see what we were doing, wondering why their rally was such a dud perhaps. One reason? We stood outside, ingesting the wonderful unprocessed sunlight while they huddled under tents, probably applying sunblock.
A couple of crowd reactions were interesting. The reading of the letter from Senator Norm Coleman clearly didn't go over with this crowd. It probably didn't help that it was read by GOP State Chair Ron Carey, also not universally popular with Republicans. Coleman was elsewhere in Minnesota and obviously could have been here. He's Minnesota's most adept politician, though, and avoided having some footage taken of him getting heckled by Republicans, like Rep. Steve Sviggum received in prior rallies.
The other reaction was during the "Green Eggs and Ham" interpretive list of all the new taxes proposed by the DFL. The proposed tax on newspapers stopped us short. After some quick chin rubbing, I think the consensus was that this was a tax we could live with!
The crazy invocation aside, it was another great experience. It's just nice to see so many others that understand the situation for what it is, not the adolescent fantasies of the DFL.
The "global warming" event was insignificant by comparison, outnumbered 5 to 1, a few hundred at best. At one point, a number of them gathered at the edge of the tax rally, presumably to see what we were doing, wondering why their rally was such a dud perhaps. One reason? We stood outside, ingesting the wonderful unprocessed sunlight while they huddled under tents, probably applying sunblock.
A couple of crowd reactions were interesting. The reading of the letter from Senator Norm Coleman clearly didn't go over with this crowd. It probably didn't help that it was read by GOP State Chair Ron Carey, also not universally popular with Republicans. Coleman was elsewhere in Minnesota and obviously could have been here. He's Minnesota's most adept politician, though, and avoided having some footage taken of him getting heckled by Republicans, like Rep. Steve Sviggum received in prior rallies.
The other reaction was during the "Green Eggs and Ham" interpretive list of all the new taxes proposed by the DFL. The proposed tax on newspapers stopped us short. After some quick chin rubbing, I think the consensus was that this was a tax we could live with!
The crazy invocation aside, it was another great experience. It's just nice to see so many others that understand the situation for what it is, not the adolescent fantasies of the DFL.