James R. Dickey

The Dallas TeaParty was a fantastic event this morning. Part of a 50-city initiative discussed further at the Nationwide Chicago Tea Party page. It was a great example of traditional democracy in action. Regular people from all walks of life concerned about out-of-control spending and the mountain of debt we’re putting on our kids.

A Dallas Young Republicans representative “livetweeted” the event. Here are her observations (in reverse chronological order):

# Things are closing down. Looking forward to pictures of the event

# 660 AM is talking to Ken.

# WFAA Live on TV saying dozens were here when there were 100s. (PS I’m in black and red on my phone).

# A lady just walked by with tea bag earrings

# Each person is taking their page of the bill and dunking it in a huge aquarium full of tea

# We are now handing each person a page of the stimulus bill

# “We want to send a signal to our legislators. We can’t to increase our national debt twenty percent in 1 year.”

# Thank you Santelli for speaking up #tcot

# Repeal or Retire!

# “We’re so busy working that we have let congress decide the easiest way to get elected is to buy our votes with our money.”

# @jamesdickey speaking next

# We’re mad. Its the Tea Party “We’re all mad here.”

# Sign: taxation WITH representation sucks too

# EMail dallasteaparty@gmail.com if you want to get involved

# “We need to organize at a precinct level.”

# “I’ve got a check already written out to the person who is going to make a difference.” – Ken from Reagan Coalition

# We’re gonna stay on this, stay in touch and change things.

# We need to make this our new hobby. Taking care of our country needs to be priority.

# Sign: I want to have a job when I grow up.

# Currenty trends are not sustainable – from the US Treasury

# Sign: don’t steal my piggy bank

# Sign: No Obamanomics

# Sign: screw green

# America is 10 trillion in debt

# “I don’t think I can raise children that will be more prosperous than I am.”

# Ken just got up to talk. He says he’s a bitter American.

# Repeal or Retire!

# 30 million for salt grass mouse study in San Fran (Nancy someone?)

# 8 billion for a high speed rail from Disney land to Vegas

# 4.6 million for oyster habitat

# 350 thousand for climate control research got major boos and oinks

# Someone’s dog agrees that no one should have signed the stimulus without reading it.

# “Obama says he understands. Let’s make sure he understands.”

# “No more victim mentality. We will empower the people”

# “The Texas conservatives won’t stand by anymore. Liberals can’t use fear anymore. Down with socialism”

# Sign: no sub prime on America’s future

# Sign: I drink tea, not KOOLAID

# Yay TopConservativesOnTwitter (TCOT), shout out to you!

# We are talking about how none of us have ever been to a protest before, but we’re angry now.

# Sign: Atlas is shrugging

# 7-year-old girl with a sign that says “don’t make me pay” just led us all in saying the pledge

# @Jenfidel estimating 300 people

# From the discussions: PORK is our 4 letter word.

# @ziptheusa yeah, a ton of cameras, and at noon channel 8 is coming

# Signs: Cut the pork

# Signs: USA – over-stimulated

# Signs: Don’t tread on me (lol) Flags that say that also.

# Signs: stop stealing from my kids

# Signs: Revolt against socialism

# Some of the signs:WHY penalize success and reward failure?

# At the #teaparty, already got a good turn out. We’ll be live tweeting the whole thing

For pictures and more on the event, see the Facebook event page.