LIVE BLOG: Tea Party Rallies for Republican Recall Targets
We're blogging live from the Tea Party Express rally in Thiensville on Saturday night.
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This is a transcript of the live blog from Saturday night's Tea Party Express rally at Village Park in Thiensville.
The complete story from the rally - and more photos - can be found here.
7:20 PM: Tonight's rally had patriotic tone throughout. Many American Flags, and people wearing red, white and blue garb.
7:13 PM: Two police officers at rally estimate that 275 people attended.
7:06 PM: The rally has wrapped up. There were about 250 people in attendance...and about five or six protesters. The crowd is dispersing.
7:03 PM: About a half a dozen protesters now relaxing under tree far from Tea Party rally in Thiensville park. No confrontations at all tonight.
7:01 PM: "Taps" is now being played as about 200 Tea Party supporters stand in silence.
6:59 PM: Rally is wrapping up. Ron and Kay Rivoli sing another song to end the event.
6:57 PM: "Eyes of the nation are on you," said Andrea Shea King, blogger and radio host. "American is with you."
6:55 PM: "I am all jazzed up!" Andrea Shea King, blogger and radio host, tells the rally participants.
6:52 PM: Eric Odom, of Grassfire Nation, tells the crowd that Gov. Scott Walker has created 40,000 jobs since he's been in office.
6:50 PM: State Sen. Alberta Darling is not at this event. She was invited by Tea Party Express organizers, but isn't here.
6:47 PM: Tea Party Express' duo (don't have their name) sings another song as we await next speaker.
6:40 PM: Speaker at rally: "They made it about collective bargaining, it's about collective bullying. We are not going to be bullied anymore."
6:30 PM: A Tea Party Express song is now being sung at the rally. Meanwhile, a group of about five protesters are circling the event.
6:18 PM: "We are in a devil's handbasket until 2012," a speaker says at rally.
6:15 PM: "Wisconsin is Ground Zero," Amy Kremer, chair of Tea Party Express, tells the crowd.
6:05 PM: The rally has officially started...with a moment of silence to remember the 31 troops who died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan. And then all sang the national anthem.
6:00 PM: So far, there are no signs of protesters. Unlike what happened in Hudson, WI, on Friday, where things got a little heated.
5:50 PM: About 200 people have arrived at the rally waiting for the event to get under way. There are also about a dozen police officers from the area on hand to keep the peace.
There are a lot of flags and a lot of red, white and blue T-shirts.
Those in attendance say they're waiting for state Sen. Alberta Darling to arrive, although her campaign said earlier in the day it's unlikely she will be there.
Dee
7:02 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011
Let me get this straight. The Republican Tea Party is having a rally for someone who doesn't think enough of them to attend? Not very logical
Don
7:17 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011
what 40,000 jobs were created since January 2011 by Walker? Where are they and what companies are hiring?....orrr,,, WHAT THE HELL IS GOVERNOR WALKER DOING CREATING JOBS!!??? THATS NOT THE GOVERNMENTS JOB TO DO!!!
can't have it both ways, Teabaggers....
Chris
7:41 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011
7:30 PM: Many tea partiers get home, and start aggressively preaching many of their talking points on comment section in local and national newspapers.
7:40 PM: Tea Partiers check Drudge Report, find more eyewitness accounts of unruly black folks in Milwaukee, and get fired up about the end of civilization.
7:50 PM: Many tea partiers crack open a miller lite and kick their puppy.
8:00 PM: Drudge Report reminds readers of a cold temperature in Australia, thus disproving global warming. Tirades on message boards recommence.
8:10 PM: Tea Partiers call fellow friends to vent and discuss second amendment remedies.
9:00 PM: The Tea Partiers get ready for bed, but say their prayers to the Koch Brothers and the rich man's dollars.
9:10 PM: Dreams of Reagan and Palin tread all over their dreams.
Morninmist Same
8:50 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011
Laughing Out Loud. Thanks.
shoebutton
9:08 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011
You really nailed it. ^5
Gofaq Uurslf
9:17 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011
Meanwhile on the east side, worshipers of Pasch go on their knees and recite their alliance to socialism.
Dora Glasberg
9:30 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011
*8:05 TeaPArtiers change their diapers
8:16 Tea Partiers pluck raisin out of rice pudding -
they get under dentures.
bringMeMy
1:25 am on Sunday, August 7, 2011
You don't understand. As a Tea Party patriot I love all the Koch I can get, who wouldn't. I'm a worker, yes, but i don't need rights, laws, fair treatment from my employer, or banks. I wouldn't even ask for it. American history is full of nothing but unagruable corporate responsibility, ethics and credibility when interacting with its shareholders, workers, etc. Just look it up and tell ME i'm wrong. Go ahead. Look, my employer makes money off my production and he deserves to do whatever he wants. Like I said, I call it doing a bump of Koch . Even though CEO salaries are 516 times what production workers make, the largest difference in american history--I say work me more, take away my benefits, and forget pensions, what are you a socialist? Oh no I do a bump of Koch and suddenly I realize they are actually rewarding me - downsizing and worthless stock options, no pension and no healthcare, It was only my sweat and toil and life i gave them, they gave me...identity. No as long as the top, who do the least work, but the most lawyer hiring, are overpaid and taxed less.I think, God i love America. This is what we are trying to get for everyone. You see i subscribe to the notion that they are my betters and God has willed it so. They are your betters too, and you deserve the same treatment as I. That's why the Tea Party works for me. And as a Tea Party Patriot I'm going to see it works for YOU too.
Thurston Howell III
8:08 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011
Class Warfare Action Suit: Are you a victim of Public Education? The Tea Party thinks you are! http://youtu.be/8wd2FAOBP0M
Thurston Howell III
8:12 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011
We really loved the stirring rendition of "Tea Party Express" performed by the White Trash Singers.
Bewildered
8:33 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011
Gee Thurston, you used the exact same line in the Hudson (Wi) Patch yesterday too. You must get paid to follow the Express around and agitate. Either that or you've run out of snappy one liners
Dora Glasberg
9:24 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011
There is nothing wrong with Socialism.
Give up YOUR SS and Medicare before using that talking point.
Dora Glasberg
9:33 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011
I preferred Herman Cain in the curly red wig, singing
THE SUN WILL COME OUT TOMORROW, from ANNIE
Nate
8:24 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011
Hope they enjoyed the barbecue
Gofaq Uurslf
9:15 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011
You said we couldn't have any after Sandy gave out hers.
cayote
8:28 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011
Wisconsin home of the BADGERS
OR IS IT
WisKOCHsin home of the BAGGERS
you decide if you want these baggers to destroy the future for our children and Seniors, just like they have now destroyed the aaa rating of the full faith and credit of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and have shut down the FAA to kill all collective bargin rights and to try to cut Medicare and Social Security for our Seniors and reward the wealthy with more Bush Trickle down tax cuts for the KOCH baggers. Call Paul Ryan and tell him to stop throwing out Patriotic Senior Citizens under his Anti Constitutional, inhumane, unpatriotic, RYAN MEDICARE KILLING budget bill TEABAG BUS which has stripped more that 100,000 jobs last week alone from faa funded project
buncy
8:29 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011
Teabaggers are right wing terroists hell bent on destroying this country, when enough damage is done by you lunatics the public will wake up and send you all back into your ignorant, uninformed hole you crawled out of and you can take your corparate masters down with you. Fake patriots!!
Bewildered
9:43 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011
Wow! Put 'em all against the wall and open up, huh? You are a very disturbed person.
Bewildered
9:51 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011
5 moronic insults in one incredibly long run-on sentence. That must be some type of record, bunchy. Don't look now but your intelligence is shining thru.
Barb
10:39 am on Sunday, August 7, 2011
What a tool!
cayote
8:33 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011
we need to drive all these Teajihadists out of Wisconsin just like St Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland
Gofaq Uurslf
9:19 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011
I would just call them Teahadists, like some of you intelligent people are Paschists.
Barb
10:43 am on Sunday, August 7, 2011
After reading your comments, I would have no problem driving you out to the desert and leaving you for dead.
Gofaq Uurslf
9:06 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011
As a conservative, I agree that the Tea Party's business should not be in Wisconsin. However, neither were all the hippies and union thugs that surged into Madison earlier in the year. Tit for tat.
KTinWI
10:18 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011
Um, Nate, just because we drove 4 hours to Madison from outlying areas in Wisconsin doesn't make us hippies and thugs. We care strongly about what's happening in OUR state.
Gofaq Uurslf
7:54 am on Sunday, August 7, 2011
@KTinWI - I wasn't referring to those who might have had to drive great distance within the state. Although, in that case, were you one of those that slept inside the rotunda and stunk it up? I'm talking about the special interests bussed in from outside - union bosses, liberal elitists, and the likes coming as far away as California.
David
9:14 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011
Also heard someone singing "All I want for Xmas is my two front teeth".
Dora Glasberg
9:25 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011
I think it was more like partial denture.
Craig
10:45 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011
Thugs were protesting in Fort a week ago. Slimy, uncivilized, uneducated, unbathed, and filthy mouthed thugs.
I don't care how far they drove to get there, I hope they didn't make it home.
Morninmist Same
12:15 pm on Sunday, August 7, 2011
Gov Walker had to have air-conditioning pumped into the building he was speaking at in Fort Atkinson. The workers there have NONE and get paid minimum wages and no benefits. Shame on Walker and those who support him.
Utopia
7:58 am on Sunday, August 7, 2011
Interesting posts here. More interesting are the numbers of Teabaggers compared to the numbers of Wisconsin voters who do not support the ReThug/Kock Shiria agenda to make this country into an autocratic/aristocracy. Thought we had settled that debate in 1776. Good luck Wisconsinites Tues August 9th. The rest of the nation is watching and cheering you on as you retake goverment control from the lying little thugs and said you were a corporate state rather than a democratic state.
Gofaq Uurslf
10:54 am on Sunday, August 7, 2011
Utopia is a prime example of a casual observer with no interest in Wisconsin affairs other than to ensure liberals are in place for whatever damage they can inflict upon the hard working taxpayer.
Barb
10:57 am on Sunday, August 7, 2011
Right on Point Nate!
Gofaq Uurslf
11:09 am on Sunday, August 7, 2011
Putting my bigotry aside, as long as you live here, you're entitled to your opinion. Half of you I will never tolerate, but for those insurgents that think they can come in and spew they're hate against either side, spend your time fixing your own problems from your respected states.
Dora Glasberg
9:56 pm on Sunday, August 7, 2011
Standard & Poor's laid their downgrading of America's Credit Ration to AA+ from
AAA+, 100% at the Republican Party'
Saying in their report YOU CANNOT SOLVE YOUR CREDIT PROBLEMS 'WITHOUT'
RAISING TAXES.
When are the TeaZanies going to wake up and listed to REAL economists, before they TOTALLY destroy this country?
Thurston Howell III
10:04 am on Monday, August 8, 2011
Check out some background on at least one of speakers from this Tea Party Express faction.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/howard_kaloogian/
Thurston Howell III
1:05 pm on Saturday, August 20, 2011
This was another "entertaining" moment enjoyed by attendees of the Tea Party Express rally featuring the Setpember surprisemobile! http://youtu.be/8wd2FAOBP0M