- I don't know how to estimate crowds very well, but I would guess it was at least 150-200 people.
- Almost every sign was homemade. I saw about 2 from the Taxpayers Alliance, but the rest were made by hand, many on the back of bankers-box lids.
- There were very few people under 40 at the rally. Perhaps only people who have been in the workforce, have worked hard to acquire a comfortable life--and people with mortgages and kids of college or near-college age--really understand what is at stake. Average age was at least 45.
- The rally was short on speeches and was mostly people milling around.
- One local assemblyman had the guts to show up. It was before I got there, but I would have booed him off the stage. No other politicians or parties were represented.
- Someone should have had an e-mail sign-in sheet to gather names and e-mails. I guess that's what the Twitter site is for these days. Still, an e-mail list is important.
- Southern California didn't have one large demo. Instead there were smaller pockets of demos all over the place. Yesterday, just in the LA area there were demos in: Glendale, Van Nuys, Burbank (in front of the Republican state office), the Reagan Museum, possibly a second one in Yorba Linda, Rancho Cucamunga, Santa Monica, etc. That made it hard to get a pic of one big crowd.
- Local media was there and covered the event.
- A camera and reporter from ReasonTV were there, so something might show up on their website.
Did I say pic? Here's a link to the image gallery I made of the event.
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