Big Ten Tea Party Roundup
If you’re going to be paying taxes, might as well make it a party, right? Yesterday, over 750 Tax Day Tea Parties were held to protest rising government spending and the resulting tax increases. Check out the New York Times for the full back story.
The video we have for you is kind of superfluous, but haven’t you always wanted to her Anderson Cooper, CNN’s silver fox, say “It’s hard to talk when you’re teabagging.”
Coverage Roundup
Penn State:
Facebook Event
We Surround Them Centre County Ning Social Network
CDT Coverage
Collegian Coverage
And we’ll be posting a video we produced at the event with Sam Settle, the prodigious Pen State conservative
Indiana University: More than 200 march on Tax Day
University of Illinois: Tax Day Party: Citizens gather to protest stimulus package, bailout plan
University of Iowa: No article published
University of Michigan: Tax Day on the Diag
Michigan State University: Tax Day protest draws thousands to the capitol
Joe the Plumber hosted it!
University of Minnesota: Several thousand crowd Capitol lawn to protest big government
Northwestern University: Anti-Obama protest garners many downtown
Ohio State University: Protestors: No more taxes
Purdue University: No article published
University of Wisconsin: ‘Tea Party’ crashes capitol
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