Even though Charlottesville is solid blue, and even though the weather yesterday was cold and rainy, “[m]ore than 1,500 people flooded the pavilion in downtown Charlottesville Wednesday for the city’s first ever Tax Day Tea Party.”
Charlottesville’s may have been the only Tea Party in the country whose keynote address was delivered by a former Secretary of State, Lawrence Eagleburger. Another speaker, state delegate Rob Bell, holds the legislative seat first occupied by Thomas Jefferson, whom he quoted to good effect.
I took a few pics, which you can view here.
UPDATE
Hans Bader responds, very effectively, to Tea Party critics.
