Tea Party favorite rallies Terry (R-NE US Congress) crowd
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Roseann Moring
One of the Tea Party's favorite congressmen, freshman Rep. Allen West of Florida, garnered several standing ovations Friday from a Papillion crowd of about 100.
West told the group at Eagle Hills Golf Course why he thinks they should re-elect his colleague, Rep. Lee Terry, R-Neb., whose campaign organized the rally.
"If you don't send this man back to Washington, D.C., you are missing out," West said. He then called Terry's opponents "chuckleheads."
Terry, who is seeking his eighth term in the U.S. House, will face four other Republicans in the May 15 primary for the Omaha-based seat: Jack Heidel, a math professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha; Brett Lindstrom, a financial adviser; Glenn Freeman, former chairman of the Douglas County Republican Party; and Paul Anderson, who claimed pauper status when he filed.
Read more: http://www.omaha.com/article/20120317/NEWS01/703179889#tea-party-favorite-rallies-terry-crowd
marble falls
(56,974 posts)some groundswell there. He could have drawn more with an offer of free lemonade.
DemoTex
(25,389 posts)Know what I mean?
TheCowsCameHome
(40,167 posts)That'll fool 'em.
marble falls
(56,974 posts)maybe they shoulda offered free beer.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,167 posts)Mz Pip
(27,430 posts)Is he like 12 or something?
ewagner
(18,964 posts)A "bomb thrower" like West usually draws at least 100 Media types (reporters, cameramen, soundmen etc)...we're hearing locally that the Tea Party meetings have dwindled to a group of 35 local radicals and bitter old men....
Is the Tea Party Movement losing steam?
dotymed
(5,610 posts)Calling people "chuckleheads" goes right along with the teachings of the scripture. It goes right along with the golden rule.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)He has nowhere to go but up.
Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)Wonder how they managed to keep that big of a crowd in check?
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)I thought this was a rally. I've never had a chair at a rally.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)I wonder when they'll finally figure out that they were nothing but useful idiots.
The Wizard
(12,532 posts)Those who voted for him get what they deserve. A fanatical radical crackpot by any standard.
fasttense
(17,301 posts)Must be a very slow news day for the Omaha World Herald.