NY Post - By Geoff Earle, Post Correspondent - April 16, '09
PROTESTS SWEEP NY, NATION
WASHINGTON -- Tens of thousands of protesters -- some dressed in colonial wigs with tea bags hanging from their eyeglasses -- staged boisterous protests modeled after the Boston Tea Party all around the country yesterday, rallying against financial bailouts and the Obama administration's tax and spending plans.
Organizers used yesterday's deadline for Americans to file their income-tax returns as a day to mobilize criticism of government spending.
About 5,000 people jammed the streets around New York's City Hall, where conservative icon Newt Gingrich spoke.
"Tell every person you know . . . and tell them to contact their sena tors and their congressmen with a very simple message: Vote against the upcoming budget of big spending, big deficits, big bureaucracy, big politics, big taxes," he urged.
Retired NYPD Lt. Sean Jordan, 43, of Westchester, turned up with his 17-year-old son, Connor, both bearing signs describing their disgust with the economy.
"UNCLE," screamed Jordan's sign.
His son's placard read, "I'm 17 and I Owe How Much?" (continues...)
Organizers used yesterday's deadline for Americans to file their income-tax returns as a day to mobilize criticism of government spending.
About 5,000 people jammed the streets around New York's City Hall, where conservative icon Newt Gingrich spoke.
"Tell every person you know . . . and tell them to contact their sena tors and their congressmen with a very simple message: Vote against the upcoming budget of big spending, big deficits, big bureaucracy, big politics, big taxes," he urged.
Retired NYPD Lt. Sean Jordan, 43, of Westchester, turned up with his 17-year-old son, Connor, both bearing signs describing their disgust with the economy.
"UNCLE," screamed Jordan's sign.
His son's placard read, "I'm 17 and I Owe How Much?" (continues...)
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