Robin Hindery and Kevin Freking
Associated Press
via Breitbart.com
9/12/2010
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Tea party activists gathered in cities on each coast and in between Sunday to spread their message of smaller government and focus their political movement on the pivotal congressional elections in November.
Several thousand people marched along Pennsylvania Avenue from the Washington Monument to the Capitol, many carrying signs reading “Congress You’re Fired” and “Let Failures Fail and “Impeach Obama.”
“It wouldn’t bother me to make a clean sweep,” said Michael Power of Decatur, Ala., endorsing term limits for members of Congress. “There are some good ones, but we can lose those.”
In Sacramento, an estimated 4,000 people poured into the former McClellan Air Force Base site for the “United to the Finish” rally—far fewer than the 25,000 to 50,000 crowd organizers had predicted.
Leslie and Gary Morrison of Redding drove 150 south to Sacramento with their dog Phoebe, just two weeks after flying to Washington to attend a large rally hosted by conservative commentator Glenn Beck. They said they liked the feeling of solidarity at the tea party events…
…The rallies also represent an opportunity to build momentum before the November election. The tea party is counting on its members to turn out in large numbers and prove that the movement is a political force with staying power.
“We’ve lost respect in the world. We are going broke. The American dream is dying and our social and cultural fabric is unraveling,” said Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., who spoke at the Washington rally. “People are scared. If we do not succeed in November, all that once was good and great about this country could someday be gone.”…
…Party activists reject characterizations of their movement as an extension of the GOP, but the vast majority of its members are Republicans and independents who vote Republican.
But not Corcoran, who went to the St. Louis rally to show her opposition to big government.
“I’ve sort of gotten away from being a Republican or a Democrat,” she said. “I’m just a conservative.”
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