Sarah Palin Protest: Biggest Protest In Alaska's History

[JordansMommy555]

My play mom sent me this...

[The] Alaska Women Reject Palin rally... was organized by a small group of women, talking over coffee. These women hatched the plan, printed up flyers, posted them around town, and sent notices to local media outlets.  One of those media outlets was KBYR radio, home of Eddie Burke, a long-time uber-conservative Anchorage talk show host.  Turns out that Eddie Burke not only announced the rally, but called the people who planned to attend the rally “a bunch of socialist baby-killing maggots”, and read the home phone numbers of the organizers aloud over the air, urging listeners to call and tell them what they thought.  The women, of course, received some nasty,  harassing and threatening messages.

Never, have I seen anything like it in my 17 and a half years living in Anchorage.  The organizers had someone walk the rally with a counter, and they clicked off well over 1400 people (not including the 90 counter-demonstrators).  This was the biggest political rally ever, in the history of the state.  I was absolutely stunned.  The second most amazing thing is how many people honked and gave the thumbs up as they drove by.  And even those that didn’t honk looked wide-eyed and awe-struck at the huge crowd that was growing by the minute.  This just doesn’t happen here.

Then, the infamous Eddie Burke showed up.  He tried to talk to the media, and was instantly surrounded by a group of 20 people who started shouting O-BA-MA so loud he couldn’t be heard.  Then passing cars started honking in a rhythmic pattern of 3, like the Obama chant, while the crowd cheered, hooted and waved their signs high.

So, if you’ve been doing the math…  Yes.  The Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was significantly bigger than Palin’s rally that got all the national media coverage!  So take heart, sit back, and enjoy the photo gallery.  Feel free to spread the pictures around to anyone who needs to know that Sarah Palin most definitely does not speak for all Alaskans.  The citizens of Alaska, who know her best, have things to say.

Tags: obama, politics, sarah palin

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[nobakecheezcake]

Sep. 19, 2008 at 7:51 AM

yes, yes there is.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNlcYaEOLRM

[JordansMommy555]

Sep. 23, 2008 at 12:00 AM

Thanks for the video link!

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[Seriously92]

Sep. 23, 2008 at 12:37 AM

Well who ever thought there weren't Democrats in Alaska?  That would be dumb.  So what she has a big approval rating....I'm not for a minute deluded enough to think she's going to lock in 600,000 votes from Alaska just cuz she's the hometown gal.  People of all parties live everywhere.  I don't see why this rally is so surprising or newsworthy.

There are rallies going on everywhere.  So what.