51° M/CLOUDY, Tea Party protest held in Santa Rosa
Last Modified: Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 3:58 p.m.
Santa Rosa’ Old Courthouse Square was filled Saturday with a couple hundred people who attended an anti-tax rally that sponsors described as “an old fashioned patriotic event.”
The rally was a follow-up event to one staged in mid-April on the square that the North Bay Patriots Project conducted to protest what they call excessive taxation and economic policies they say are bankrupting the country.
Jim Judd, the group’s chairman, said the event was associated with the national Taxed Enough Already, or TEA, which was holding Tea Party protests across the country on Saturday.
“It is the 233rd birthday of our country and we felt it was time to get out a positive message,” Judd said. “Don’t look to government to help you, it is time for individuals to take care of themselves at the local level.”
The local group aims to stimulate citizen interest in reducing taxation, much as Colonial era Americans dumped tea into the Boston harbor.
-- Bleys W. Rose
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