How Honest? How Accurate?
Asheville Tribune Gets It Wrong (Again)? Claims 2,000 to 4,000 Attendees at April 15, 2009, Tea Bag Party Protest in Asheville
*IF THE TRUTH BE TOLD? Some say: No way, no how, were there "thousands" of tea-baggers and curiosity-seekers at the anti-stimulus package gathering / tax protest / Obamanomics hate-fest (take your pick) in Downtown Asheville on April 15. A truthful number: approximately 1,000 attendees, give or take a few hundred. Or, others postulate, maybe the Tribune keeps learning how to recreate history just like its oracle, George W. Bush, who is brazenly continuing onward and downward with his reality-bending, under(re)construction, Bush (league) library in the land of (let's all mess with) Don't Mess with (because we can secede if we want to) Texas. | Even Asheville Tea Party organizer Erika Franzi a.k.a. Jane Q Republican puts the estimate between 1,060 and 1,800 attendees, although she believes it's closer to 1,800. HARDLY "THOUSANDS." Nontheless, Franzi praises the Tribune as the only local media outlet that reported the news of her tax protest party accurately.
Protest billboard * Photo on blog of Michele Malkin
By the way... who paid for this billboard by and for the 'grassroots' AshevilleTeaParty.com?
*NOBODY LIKES TO PAY TAXES, and protesters brought their signs and exercised their right to express themselves in Downtown Asheville and across the nation on April 15, 2009 | Erika Conrad Franzi, who provided protesters with talking points to try out on the media, was one of the few to write about the protest and appears to have organized the Asheville protest. For details about the Tea Party in Asheville, Click Here>
Jenny Bowen's Photos of the Tax Protest in Asheville
Asheville blogger Jenny Bowen snapped a few good ones in front of the Buncombe County Courthouse and Asheville City Hall: Click Here>
ERIKA CONRAD FRANZI A.K.A JANE Q REPUBLICAN: Leader of the Asheville tea-bagger charge * Photo: Franzi's press release
Franzi organizing another Asheville tea-bagger protest: This time on Independence Day
Claiming upwards of 1,800 protesters and curiosity-seekers at the April 15, 2009, protest in Asheville, Asheville Tea Party organizer Erika Franzi is planning to turn July 4 into a day not of celebration, rather a day of protest, for those disgruntled with Obamanomics. | For details, visit ashevilleteaparty.com or Click Here> | For a Franzi rant against the local media for its failure to cover the news as well as the Asheville Tribune, Click Here>
Erika Conrad Franzi = Jane Q Republican
*ERIKA FRANZI IS ALSO JANE Q REPUBLICAN, as confirmed by local media DowntownAsheville.com | The domain name registration of AshevilleTeaParty.com is in the name of Erika Franzi of Weaverville, NC, and she lists her email with Godaddy.com as janeqrepublican@gmail.com. So as you read AshevilleTeaParty.com, now you know who the real author of so many of its articles: it is not Jane Q Republican with Erika Franzi, rather it's Erika Franzi meets Erika Franzi. The curtain is lifted. The count is not 1 + 1 = 2; the truthful count, in this case, is 1 writer + 1 writer = 1 same writer (Erika Franzi). DowntownAsheville.com thought you'd like to know the truth.
