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(Lindner "A movement manufactured by television hosts and oil tycoons two years ago is not historic" - promoted by Mike Hoefer)
Today's "Taxpayer Tea Party Rally at the Statehouse" might have been more impressive if it hadn't oversold itself early in the week, touting Fox News attendance and making bold predictions about turnout numbers.
The Koch brothers sponsored group and rally planners (funders) Americans for Prosperity sent this to my inbox this week:
Due to the increased interest from the media and the high volume of attendees expected, AFP-New Hampshire has set up an RSVP system to ensure an accurate crowd count can be determined ... This may be the largest Taxpayer Tea Party Rally in New Hampshire history. You don't want to miss it!
In the email and again during the rally today, the AFP staff asked people to send a text to the designated number for an "accurate count" to counter the low numbers they predicted to be reported by the "liberal media". It'll be interesting to see what numbers they decide to report, given the decidedly low energy and the even bigger contrast to that other large rally on the State House lawn a few weeks ago ... pictures anyone?
The "potentially largest Taxpayer Tea Party Rally in NH history", organized by Koch-funded AFP and featuring several GOP Presidential Candidates like TPaw, Santorum, etc.; est. crowd ~300:
Rally for New Hampshire, organized by a loose-knit coalition of organizations and individuals concerned about protecting essential services and workers rights; est. crowd ~5,000:
Lest the ground-shot vs aerial view gives too much credit in the first photo, pay particular attention to the statues. At the Rally for NH, it was midpoint. Today, the #teafail loosely spread to it as a perimeter.
Outside the State House lawn there was a counter-organizing effort by area students. Good story on that here.
What is the GOPP? It's my conception of the new Republican Party in NH, and that is the result of a chain of thinking that occupied my mind yesterday evening, after we were interacting with our own representative from the sandbox brigade. So follow me below, patiently.
The Tea Party is dropping the pretense of being a grassroots movement on November 1st. The shadowy corporate group AFP is sponsoring a whole day of propagandizing in Concord all day Monday Nov. 1st, celebrating the Tea Party's coming out as a openly fascist corporate front group.
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