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SUPPOSE MOVEON HAD A HEALTHCARE RALLY AND A ?TEA PARTY? BROKE OUT? How a Local Rally For Obama?s He?

By Glenn Reynolds

SUPPOSE MOVEON HAD A HEALTHCARE RALLY AND A “TEA PARTY” BROKE OUT? How a Local Rally For Obama’s Health Care Proposal Turned Into a Rally Against It.

Local MoveOn.org members had penciled in on today’s schedule a protest in front of Senator John Cornyn’s Spring Valley Road office, during which they had hoped to pressure the senator to support President Barack Obama’s public health care legislation. But when Paula Anderson, a MoveOn.org member and spokeswoman, showed up at 11:30 a.m., she found another contingent had beat her to the proverbial punch: A large number of Dallas Tea Party members were already set up, voicing their opposition to the proposal.

Anderson was stunned: “We really did not expect them to show up.” She estimated the crowd at about 130. “From our perspective we took names of everyone there, and we had about 30 people,” she told Unfair Park. “And I would assume they maybe had 100.” As it turned out, according to Jessica Sandlin, Cornyn’s Texas press secretary, Tea Party-hearties also showed up to health-care legislation rallies in Austin and in San Antonio.

With it looking like the bill won’t pass before the August recess, Tea Partiers have an opportunity for in-district action.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on July 23, 2009 (boomark / email).