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1,500+ flock to anti-tax ‘Tea Party’ (access required)

by Amy Gillentine Published: April 15,2009

Tags: crowd, protest, Springs, tea party

Their signs read “capitalism yes, socialism no” and “Deliver us from Obamanation.” An estimated 1,500 people filled Acacia Park Wednesday for the national Tea Party anti-stimulus, tax and federal budget protest. Quiet, patriotic and overwhelmingly angry, they were gray-haired grandmothers, retirees who lost their pensions in the financial meltdown, businessmen in shirts and ties who were [...] [...]

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