Was the official tally of protesters over the weekend in Washington, DC, in the thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands?
Major media outlets are reporting that "thousands" of TEA Party (Taxed Enough Already) protestors lined Pennsylvania Avenue on Saturday. The protestors came from all over the United States to show their disgust with what they see as out-of-control spending and an unprecedented expansion of federal government. Now a controversy has arisen over the real number of protesters in the nation's capital, and whether the media is trying to push the protest under the rug. Mike Maynard is a TEA party protestor who was at the event. "I can honestly say that it was over a million," says Maynard. "I've never been in a crowd that large in my life, I've never seen a crowd that large in my life, and have never been as packed in a group of people like that in all my life." Maynard tells OneNewsNow that while at the event he heard the official number from the DC police was between 1.2 and 2 million. OneNewsNow contacted Homeland Security to get an official number, but was referred to the DC police, who have not returned any calls. View video of the rally from C-SPAN
Major media outlets are reporting that "thousands" of TEA Party (Taxed Enough Already) protestors lined Pennsylvania Avenue on Saturday. The protestors came from all over the United States to show their disgust with what they see as out-of-control spending and an unprecedented expansion of federal government. Now a controversy has arisen over the real number of protesters in the nation's capital, and whether the media is trying to push the protest under the rug. Mike Maynard is a TEA party protestor who was at the event. "I can honestly say that it was over a million," says Maynard. "I've never been in a crowd that large in my life, I've never seen a crowd that large in my life, and have never been as packed in a group of people like that in all my life." Maynard tells OneNewsNow that while at the event he heard the official number from the DC police was between 1.2 and 2 million. OneNewsNow contacted Homeland Security to get an official number, but was referred to the DC police, who have not returned any calls.
View video of the rally from C-SPAN
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