OK, so maybe there weren’t any official estimates. But if you want to estimate how many people were at
the "gimme some money for sending my kid to private school" rally today at the State House, you can look at the image at right.
I know; it’s pretty low-res. I didn’t have my camera, and shot this with my phone. But I think you can tell, at the very least, that the "organizers" who estimated the crowd at 4,000 were evidently a little, shall we say, overly enthused. I’ve seen a lot of crowds at the capitol, and this looks a good bit short of that figure to me.
You’d think they could have pulled more together, especially in light of reports that (to my sorrow as a Catholic), St. Joseph’s school gave kids the day off to attend. That’s what I by a parent and a grandparent associated with the school. If that’s correct, this is pretty anemic turnout.
I shot this from across the street, where I was having lunch with the governor’s chief of staff. Maybe I saw it before the crowd had fully assembled or after it had dissipated. But the governor’s man saw what I saw, and did not suggest anything of the kind.
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All 2000 of them.
Why is this a surprise? This rally was to champion an “issue of justice”. Yet, the call to arms was through a single letter which read more like scrgov propaganda than Catholic social justice.
I agree with Bishop Baker about the faith issue of students from poor families, but choice as a solution is muddied by the political implications.
I won’t hold my breath waiting for The State to question the turnout or motives of the next rally for one of their favorite handout programs.
If this had been a rally to take down a monument to Southern heritage or for more Food Stamps, the paper would have estimated the crowd at close to one million.
I won’t hold my breath waiting for The State to question the turnout or motives of the next rally for one of their favorite handout programs.
If this had been a rally to take down a monument to Southern heritage or for more Food Stamps, the paper would have estimated the crowd at close to one million.
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