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TEA PARTY RESULTS IN RHODE ISLAND: ?In Woonsocket, RI, Tea Party activists swarmed the City Council?

By Glenn Reynolds

TEA PARTY RESULTS IN RHODE ISLAND: “In Woonsocket, RI, Tea Party activists swarmed the City Council and stopped massive new supplemental tax hikes to bail out the public school district. The tax measure, which had been expected to pass 6-1, went down by a 4-3 vote.” As Jim Geraghty noted the other day, 100 or even 1000 people at a rally might be a news story, but when they show up to a City Council meeting it’s an earthquake. Or a Congressman’s meet-and-greet.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 22, 2009 (boomark / email).