Congratulations Sauk Valley

Wow, what a great day for liberty! Thanks so much for everyone that contributed in making yesterday an amazing day. 100's of people came out to show their support, and 1 came out to protest. Not sure what he was exactly protesting by disrupting us by pretending to vomit and pass out in front of us. Something about minimum wage, can't afford health care and what would Jesus do. I would have loved to have an intellectual and theological conversation with him, but I doubt we could change his mind. Years of Marxist indoctrination is not easily to overcome.

Unlike a Leftist rally, like those in Minneapolis during the Republican convention, where the protesters threw things at elderly conventioneers and spat on them. We believe in the first amendment and allow even ridiculous people have their 1 minute of unintelligible public display.

It was awesome to see the wide range of people at our rally. People who came forward to speak ranged in age from 12 to 80, from as far away as the North suburbs of Chicago, legal immigrants to those who's ancestors signed the Declaration of Independents.

Thank you and God Bless those fellow citizens that helped put together this fantastic event.

Being only the 3rd Tea Party and first one that attempted to have a structure, I think we managed to pull it off. I am sure we could have done many things better, so we would love suggestions. I already know 2 things that we need to focus on immediately. First, make sure the mp3 player we use for the national anthem can be seen in the bright sun. Sorry about that. Second, I think we need to stress that all speakers to keep it under 5 minutes. Even though we all enjoyed the information, it pulled the first part from 1 hour to nearly 2. I am thinking of getting a huge clock so the speakers can pace themselves. I am guilty as anyone to lose track of time.

I think for the next Rally, we want to focus on our platform. What are the 3-4 things we really want to do as an organization. My thoughts are 1) Corruption Reform, 2) States Rights Push, 3) Local Education initiative. I left off Health Care because I believe by the time we meet again, it will be over - the majority in power will have forced something upon us. Sad but historically supported. I also believe we need to focus on building our grass roots effort to have a real re-boot revolution (non violent of course).

Suggestions are welcome.