Rally draws 1,000 plus

Submitted by bniolet on September 9, 2009 - 6:56pm.
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Americans for Prosperity sponsored a "Hands Off My Health Care" rally Wednesday night at the State Fairgrounds. More than 1,000 people attended. The event featured speeches, including one by Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory, who congratulated the crowd for getting Washington to listen to concerns about a Democratic plan to reform health care.

"I am convinced that had not the people spoke out in this extremely personal issue, the president would not be giving a speech tonight because the bill would have already been passed," McCrory said. "You did your job."

Staff photo by Ethan Hyman 

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Re: Rally draws 1,000 but not one brain among them!

Submitted by riverrd on September 10, 2009 - 7:08pm.

It is amazing how many Flat-Earth, Knuckle-Dragging, Mouth-Breathing, Non-Thinking Sheep from the 'Just-Say-No' party you can fit in a room without the vacuum of thought sucking in the 'occupied void'.

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Re: Rally draws 1,000 plus

Submitted by aftercancer on September 9, 2009 - 10:42pm.

Looks like a large number of these protesters already have socialized medicine, Medicare!

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Re: Rally draws 1,000 plus

Submitted by AgentPierce on September 9, 2009 - 7:29pm.

Applying the well-known N&O partisan "math" we can assume 4-5,000.

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