Tampa Tea Party’s fear of socialism is unwarranted

By Ben Luongo
PoHo contributor

Ben Luongo is a USF political science graduate student. He will be graduating this spring.

I wanted to follow up on my last piece which was on the tea party protests, so I attended Tampa’s tea party at 5 p.m. on Wednesday. I previously wrote that the debate on Obama’s spending has suffered from the failure of both sides to provide reasons for their arguments. I therefore attended the event with the hopes of understanding some of the tea-partiers’ reasons for their concerns.

Here is what we talked about: Read the rest of this entry »

Tampa Tea Party flop

Initial reports are just coming in, but it looks like the crowd size at the downtown Tampa Tea Party is significantly lower than the recent protest in Orlando (4,000) or the numbers that one of my political sources was told when the event was in its planning stages (5,000-10,000).

Via Twitter, 10 Connects reporter Preston Rudie puts the afternoon crowd at far fewer:

I would estimate the crowd at the noon Tea Party in Tampa to be over 500. Organizers expect about 2,000 for the protest/rally at 5pm.

That is in opposition to MB12345 (M. Barabin) who reports a “huge crowd.”

Here’s a TwitPic from the event, taken by Richlionheart:

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