8,000 in Orange Country, California:
They’re revolting. Families with children, bikers, seniors, pirates – by the thousands descended on a Fullerton bar Saturday to join talk show hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou of KFI in protesting tax increases recently approved in Sacramento.
Police estimated that some 8,000 people came to the Slidebar Café in downtown Fullerton to listen to The John & Ken Show.
“I expected a lot and it was way more than I expected,” said co-host John Kobylt.
The talk show hosts put forward an ambitious goal for their Tax Revolt 2009 live broadcast that ran for more than three hours.
“The purpose is to vote down Prop 1A on May 19 because it’s a two-year tax extension,” said Kobylt. “The purpose is to tell people how their Republican legislators lie about their votes. The purpose is to get support to recall Schwarzennegger, (Assemblyman) Anthony Adams, (Assemblyman) Jeff Miller, and everybody else.”
Some wore buttons. One man brought a bloody effigy head of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and waved it from the end of a pike, while the crowd joined their hosts in a chant of “Repeal, recall, revolt.”
Please note the ire being directed at “moderate” Republicans who are trying to be bi-partisan and do the people’s business and make the hard choices and yadda, yadda, yadda…Democrats are beneath contempt on this issue, but the GOP is expected to be the party of the people, and the people are demanding the GOP live up to its ideals. And a good thing, too.
Let this be a warning to any GOPer out there who wants the GOP to pursue a more liberal line on things – that nonsense might sell in New York and DC, but it isn’t going to sell anywhere else.
UPDATE: Click here for the picture which really captures the moment.
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