4/15/2009
MICHAEL STRAND
Beka Romm had brought 300 fliers with her to Salina, and they were gone just 20 minutes after the crowd started to gather Wednesday in the commons between the Salina Public Library and the City-County Building. Some 200 more were quickly printed and given out, so Romm estimated 500 people had gathered to protest the tax-and-spend — or is it borrow-and-spend, or borrow-and-stimulate, or borrow-and-bail — policies of the federal government. The Salina TEA Party was one of hundreds organized around the country on the deadline for filing income tax returns, and it was one of several that Romm, of Topeka, a political activist who grew up in Bennington, was planning to attend. The events were inspired by the Boston Tea Party, an early event in the American Revolution, with “TEA” an acronym for “Taxed enough already.” Many in the crowd carried signs with such sayings as “Don’t Tread on Me,” “Give us Liberty, not debt,” and “Obama and Pelosi, the Detrimental Duo.” Though a few in the crowd hollered things like, “No politicians, I don’t want to hear from any politicians,” it was mostly politicians or their representatives who spoke.
Read the rest of this story in Thursday's Salina Journal.

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