Of course, this is the 2nd annual Greater Houston Tax Day Tea Party downtown. Last year was at Jone's Plaza.... here's a few pics from last year...
Colleen, Me, Mel, Karen...and patriotic Walton!
So this year, they held it at the beautiful Discovery Green downtown and there was a big crowd again.
Karen had mentioned that the best part about the rallies are the signs. Last year they were really creative and made you laugh!! This year I feel they are more on the serious side as the jobs situation has not improved since last Tea Party and the spending has gone even more haywire. This guy's sign was funny, however!!
He was referring to the ridiculous comment by a Congressman Hank Johnson that the island of Guam may tip over if we send more military personnel. Let's hope he was talking figuratively. 
The really fun part was more of the reason Ashlee and I were there. If you want to make a difference you have to start locally. So we're joining the campaign for John Faulk. He's running against Sheila Jackson Lee, who unfortunately represents us both, and many of our friends in MidTown, East Downtown, CBD, and the Heights. 
We actually met John Faulk and he enlisted us with a huge roll of stickers and I offered my services as his Twitter-er. Let's hope I get that position, his communications director seemed all for it! Who has time to Twitter?! ....besides me....=) Ashlee has the picture of him and us on her fancy new camera (so jealous)! Basically, Sheila Jackson Lee was the brilliant Congresswoman who flew out on our dollars to L.A. for Michael Jackson's funeral to say she's going to introduce a Bill to honor him as a humanitarian... as if our Congress wasn't busy enough, they surely will want to honor an alledged pedofile. At least Pelosi denied her request. She also claims the National Weather Service is racist because there are no black-named hurricanes (what IS a black name, Sheila??). She's an all around awful Rep. who answers her cell phone at Town Halls when being questioned by a voter. The landscape of her district has changed drastically. We aim to kick her out!!
SHELBY AGREES!!!
November seems like forever away... but there's no time like the present to try to make a difference!!
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Look at you with your political self. I see what your new hobby has become!
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