{"id":1400,"date":"2009-04-15T18:06:24","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T01:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/15\/denver-tea-time\/"},"modified":"2009-04-26T15:37:30","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T22:37:30","slug":"denver-tea-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/denver-tea-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately 5000 people had their cup of tea at the state house in Denver on tax day, and their message to limit spending was heard loud and clear by the Colorado House in session inside the capital building who were, coincidentally, debating the state budget.\u00a0 I did not see a single disruptive demonstrator, nor did I hear any angry conversations.\u00a0 People had a great time; it was a party atmosphere with a serious side.\u00a0 There was no evidence of overriding organization, of Fox News&#8217; involvement, or of any commercial posters or signs of the sort you see at a political party rally.<\/p>\n<p>Videos of speeches:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Gunny_Bob.wmv\" title=\"Gunny Bob\">Gunny Bob<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Caldera.wmv\" title=\"Jon Caldara\">Jon Caldara<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Mike_Coffman.wmv\" title=\"Mike Coffman\">Mike Coffman<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Tom_Lucero.wmv\" title=\"Tom Lucero\">Tom Lucero<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Mike_Kopp.wmv\" title=\"Mike Kopp\">Mike Kopp<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Lenina_Close.wmv\" title=\"Lenina Close\">Lenina Close<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>IBD: <a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/tea-party-system.pdf\" title=\"The Tea Party System\">The Tea Party System<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following pictures are higher density than I usually post so they can be enlarged to read the various signs.\u00a0 Click on them to enlarge.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/sdim0724-copy.jpg\" title=\"Denver Tea Party - 1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/sdim0724-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Denver Tea Party - 1\" height=\"320\" width=\"207\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/sdim0718-copy.jpg\" title=\"Denver Tea Party - 2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/sdim0718-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Denver Tea Party - 2\" height=\"124\" width=\"293\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/sdim0725-copy.jpg\" title=\"Denver Tea Party - 3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/sdim0725-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Denver Tea Party - 3\" height=\"196\" width=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc00046-copy.jpg\" title=\"DTP 5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc00046-copy.jpg\" alt=\"DTP 5\" height=\"143\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc00052-copy.jpg\" title=\"DTP 7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc00052-copy.jpg\" alt=\"DTP 7\" height=\"143\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc00064-copy.jpg\" title=\"DTP 8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc00064-copy.jpg\" alt=\"DTP 8\" height=\"143\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc00069-copy.jpg\" title=\"DTP 9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc00069-copy.jpg\" alt=\"DTP 9\" height=\"143\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc00070-copy.jpg\" title=\"DTP 10\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc00070-copy.jpg\" alt=\"DTP 10\" height=\"182\" width=\"513\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately 5000 people had their cup of tea at the state house in Denver on tax day, and their message to limit spending was heard loud and clear by the Colorado House in session inside the capital building who were, coincidentally, debating the state budget.\u00a0 I did not see a single disruptive demonstrator, nor did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}