Tax day, the Republicans put on the
best show in town. Plaza de Cesar Chavez in San Jose. There were at
least hundreds of people there.
It seems like freezing the spending in
Washington DC really would be a climate change there.
At the moment Edward M. Gonzalez is
still the only candidate on the ballot opposing Zoe Lofgren. He was the
only Libertarian with a table I saw at the event.
I was taking this picture of the
truther signs and this couple wandered up. She asked something like
"what's 911 about anyhow?"
I said "911 is what you call when you
want government support right away." She snickered a bit but didn't say
anything more. Her guy kicked one of the signs, more a gesture of
contempt than anything else.
These guys are theater students at San
Jose State, judging by what they said when I asked. After I took these
pictures I kind of stood back a bit to see what other reactions to them
were. One guy said "that's nicer than the liberals they sent last year."
The guy with the pie chart was trying
to get people interested in California's state budget. He seemed like
the only one.
The clown pleading with ralph before
the porcelain god on that yellow shirt is vomiting a rainbow. It's the
kind of thing that can only happen in cartoons.
The guy with the beard said he brought
40 lbs. of candy for the
organizers to give out to whomever wanted some.
The woman who gave me the Dan Sahagun
flyer explained that they are gathering the signatures to get him on
the November ballot. He is running as a write in in the Republican
Primary.
The guy with "IN ALL OF HISTORY" on his
sign dismissed my belief in climate change with "You've drunk the
Kool-aid on that."
The guy with the black and red cap
explained that his son had bought him the red, white, and blue shirt
because the guy knew he was a patriot.
