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Hundreds rally against spending
Published April 17, 2009
LOGANVILLE — When he first decided to get in on the Tea Party movement, Loganville resident John Sauers said he didn’t know whether to expect three people to turn up, 30 people or 300 people. The latter proved to be the closest.
“I’ve been told there were about 250 or more people there, which is pretty good since we only thought about doing this a couple of weeks ago,” Sauers said. “Now we just have to see how to keep the momentum going.”
The Loganville Tea Party in protest of government spending and increasing taxes was, according to Sauers, completely a grassroots effort.
“I took a look online and decided to see if there was anything happening in this area,” Sauers said. “When I saw a list of people who were interested in helping out, there were several people from Loganville. So I contacted them and we decided to have our own tea party here in Loganville.”
Loganville band Fishing With Dynamite opened the meeting and several speakers, some of them Republican state representatives such as such as state reps. Jeff May (R-111), Len Walker (R-107) and state Sen. Bill Cowsert (R-46) spoke as well as Walton County Commissioner Chuck Bagley. But former state Sen. Bob Guhl (R-45) closed out the speakers with a warning to attendees not to be swayed by speeches from people who are looking to be re-elected. He said it was up to the people to hold everybody to campaign promises and fiscal responsibility, at all levels of government.
The main focus was on “less” — less government spending, less taxation and less government in general.
“In my opinion the people in Washington are spending tax money to buy their own power and I’m very upset,” said Bob Nelson who had come from Stone Mountain to attend the Loganville tea party.
“I’m self employed and I want to end the IRS,” was Angie Shelnutt of Loganville’s main reason for attending.
There was strong representation from Walton County’s Fair Tax movement with an update on legislation at the moment and plans to keep the current pressure on government to look at the Fair Tax option. But by far the loudest cry was a need to end the culture of Washington and big government.
“In a nutshell, I’m tired of Washington as usual,” said Frank Ratton, also of Loganville.
Patrick Acree, another of the organizers, said the plan now was to go through the list of people who signed up and plan the next move.
“We need this to be a beginning, not an end,” Acree said. “We need to keep this momentum going.”
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