Lloyd Marcus is traveling with us as one of the star headliners on the Tea Party Express national tour.
Earlier today he posed for this pic with Rep. Michele Bachmann during a rally in St. Paul, Minnesota. Later, I read his piece at BIG JOURNALISM. Lloyd so captured the mood and the momentum of this Tea Party tour, I excerpted it. You can read the entire piece here. Excerpt below the photo.
Lloyd writes:
THE MOOD OF THE RALLIES: We are ten days into our national Tea Party Express tour, two and three rallies per day with thousands of patriots in attendance. There is a vibe of extreme worry about America. At every rally, folks have hugged and thanked me with tears in their eyes for what our TPX team is doing to save our country.
Traveling to our rally in Springfield, Ill., a crazy woman driving a green Ford Navigator pulled in front of us two times and hit her brakes forcing our bus driver to hit his brakes. A team member on our bus could have been seriously injured had we not caught her. The state police was notified about the incident.
Otherwise, opposition to us on the Tea Party Express tour has been minimal. Truckers give us supportive honks, families in cars give us waves and cheers. Out of the thousands of positive encounters, we have only been flipped the negative bird eight times.
Looking out the window of our bus on the road to Davenport, Iowa, we saw a memorable image. From a farm, a woman was standing on a tractor waving a huge American flag. A second woman and a man wearing a straw hat and bib jeans were waving smaller flags and jumping up and down trying to get our attention.
Captivated by their passion and enthusiasm, we pulled off to the side of the highway. Several of our team filed out, waved back to the excited patriots and got back on the bus. The anxiety about the future, mixed with profound gratitude of the patriots, at the rallies has been surprising.
