| Yesterday's tea parties in Jackson, Brighton, and Troy turned out incredible numbers. I knew Troy would be big when a text from Brighton informed me over 4,000 were there. I wonder if Brighton police used their anti-American anti-"annoyance" ordinance yesterday. I'm sure somebody in Brighton had to be a bit irritated by that turn out. Regardless, the word from Troy that I heard was that the group of people was so packed as to make movement difficult, and that Bruce Fealk and his anti-tea-protest of a few dozen protested across the street of Big Beaver (a multi-lane divided road for outstate readers) from the City Hall and that they were allegedly afraid to cross the street and venture over into the sea of protestors as they might occasionally do when trying to infiltrate and waterdown a protest. No media other than Fox has given a precise number yet, with headlines vaguely downplaying the 10-12K statewide as "thousands attend Brighton, Troy" (Detroit News, which leaves out Jackson which is not in their publication's mainline readership). Although we weren't able to attend, OaklandPolitics will have more hard coverage on this tonight. ITEM FROZEN DUE TO COMMERCIAL SPAM |
