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The crowd estimates vary, but upwards of 8,000 people showed up for a Tea Party in Orlando, Florida and they delivered a very clear message to the tax and spend crowd in Washington: “You have awakened a sleeping giant and now we are going to retake the control of the government that rightly belongs to us.”

~~John Cronin~~

Singer Lloyd Marcus told the crowd assembled in Lake Eola Park on Saturday that he was going to give them his take on the first days of the Obama administration.

Then he shrieked.

That pretty much summed up the mood in the park Saturday afternoon, when more than 4,000 people attended the Orlando Tea Party, a conservative rally aimed at expressing discontent with Washington.

“This is maybe the greatest single gathering of God-fearing patriots in the history of Orlando, Florida,” local conservative radio host Bud Hedinger, who emceed the event, told the crowd.

The attendees, many of whom said they’d heard about the rally on Hedinger’s radio show, brandished flags and homemade signs bearing slogans such as “Repeal the pork or our bacon is cooked” and “Obama lied, liberty died.”

“We’re really scared about what’s happening in our country,” said Debby Whisenand, 71, of Largo in Pinellas County. She waved a sign that read “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money” on one side, and “You can’t blame Bush anymore” on the other.

Her feelings were shared by Lisa Feroli, one of the event’s organizers, who said that a similar fear motivated her to e-mail Hedinger with the idea for the Orlando Tea Party.

“The goal was to get people united, to let people know that they aren’t alone in their feelings on despair,” Feroli said. “We want to speak out against the push toward socialization that we feel is taking place in our country.”

Several speakers addressed the crowd, estimated by Orlando police and event organizers at 4,200, on a variety of topics, including gun rights, freedom of speech, the dangers of communism and, most prevalently, the economy, especially the Obama administration’s bailout plan.

“We have had enough of massive government-driven bailout using our money,” Hedinger said, prompting the crowd to start chanting “U.S.A.” over and over.

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The next round of Tea Parties are popping up like dandelions on your lawn! Kudos to the grassroots activists who are taking time away from other activities to organize, publicize and attend these citizen protests against an out of control Congress and financially reckless Administration.

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.orlandoteaparty.com/

Let’s Take Back Our Country!
Orlando Tea Party

March 21, 2009
Lake Eola 12pm until 2pm

We hope you will join us on Saturday, March 21st, 2009 at the amphitheater at beautiful Lake Eola, Downtown Orlando, between 12:00pm-2:00pm to tell our government we are not going to take it anymore!

This will be a peaceful rally to unite our voices and express the love that we have for our great nation and the principles it was founded on. We want to make our politicians hear loud and clear that we are tired of the bailouts, the wasteful Washington spending and the push towards the socialization of this country! We want less government! We want to decide where our hard earned money goes instead of the elitist politicians in Washington taking it and using it to buy votes, doling it out to special interest groups and pork barrel projects! We want our constitutional rights preserved and protected, not trampled on!

Let’s exercise our right to free speech and be a part of history as the peaceful reclamation of our country is underway! We need help raising the funds necessary to make this event happen. The deposit has been made to hold the venue but we need to raise $2,000- $3,000 within the next two weeks to pay for the event. We are taking contributions through Paypal at this time. Please click on the link below and help to make this happen.

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

- Ronald Reagan

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