Sunday, March 28, 2010

Westward Ho--Spring 2010--Day 19

A tea party in Phoenix. The Tea Party Express III made their appearance of their current tour this afternoon on the grounds of the Arizona State Capitol. They kicked off their tour in Searchlight, Nevada, yesterday of a 45 city tour. We were able be at the Oklahoma State Capitol last November when the Tea Party Express II made a stop there. Our good friends Ron & Kay Rivoli are a major part of the Tea Party Express experience.

We arrived a little early to see where everything was and look over the Capitol grounds. In a plaza across the street from the Capitol are a bunch of memorials to Arizonians from all walks of life. Their memorial to the Vietnam War was very well done. In addition to this statue they had all the people from the Phoenix area listed on black marble walls.


Once the three Tea Party Express III buses arrived the action really got underway. The people who make up the Tea Party Express are professional entertainers, authors, and speakers. This is the third incarnation of the Tea Party Express. Each of these people give up a month of their time to volunteer to ride the bus, stop at two or three places per day and put on a couple of hours of entertainment promoting the conservative movement. An extra person of the tour this time around was Joe the Plumber. This is the guy who had the "audacity" of coming out of his house to ask then candidate Obama a question about taxes on the working people of this country. He has become an accomplished speaker and is definitely not politically correct.

Although the different folks did a number or gave a short speech Ron & Kay Rivoli are definitely the stars and carry the bulk at each stop. They have written the theme songs for each of the three Tea Party Express tours. This tours theme is "Just vote them out". We always enjoy their music and have many of their CD's in the motor home. We will see Ron & Kay again in May when they preform at the Monaco America rally in Hutchinson, Kansas. After their performance Ron came down to where we were sitting on the ground to visit for a few minutes before he joined Kay at the vendor tent to sign autographs and sell a few CDs.

After the Tea Party Express folks finished up their part of the rally the local politicians took over. That was our cue to head out. After saying our goodbyes to Ron & Kay we headed out to eat Sunday dinner. Since we were in the middle of downtown Phoenix we decided to go to the Hard Rock Cafe to eat. Since it was early in the evening and a Sunday the place was not very busy so we got right in.

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