Posted by DebbieMcKee on 09/15/09 10:09 PM Last updated 09/16/09 4:14 PM   [Newer: How can we make a coalition work?] [Older: Audit the Fed Mass Action Locations]

Small turnout, but we met new folks and had fun anyway.   We visited Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson's office when we first arrived at 4 PM  to make sure they would be open closer to 5 when we brought in the petition signatures we told the secretary we were there supporting HR 1207 and wanted the Congresswoman to co-sponsor it.  She didn't think she'd heard of it, ( I thought, boy the constituents aren't making enough phone calls!).  Anyway, thankfully 2 of the guys who showed up WERE her constituents so we were covered.  We had 5 of us outside her office building holding signs, we got some pretty good response from the passersby.
 
When we went in just before 5 PM with the petitions, a letter and a packet of stuff I brought (JBS movies, AFTF, Fiat Empire, a Republic Magazine, etc.) the secretary told us that they had heard from DC and she did sign on!!!!
 
That was VERY exciting to hear! 
 
We left there and some of us went to the Fed, we were joined by others during the course of the evening.  All total, there were 9 of us and Adrienne, Sharrod and I were there for 3 1/2 hours!   We really got a LOT of good response tonight, even the Loomis truck driver who just left the FED with his police escort from OK honked and waved! 
 
I got more hassle from the Fed security guards than ever before, it was weird.  They kept trying to get me to tell them what group we were with.  I kept saying we were just concerned citizens, WE THE PEOPLE.   At EBJ's office we were officially from Campaign for Liberty, but at the Fed bank, we were just grassroots, concerned people in my book.  We did tell one security guard to go to auditthefed.com  for info (that was on a couple of the signs and he was trying to read them)  He kept trying to get info from me so he could have their public relations people contact me.  I said that wasn't necessary, and told him I'd been on the tour,   I did give him my name though.  (I didn't have any desire to sit down with a FED PR person.)
 
I guess maybe they are starting to wonder, here we are 10 months later, still demonstrating. 
 
Debbie McKee
interim coordinator Texas CFL
Dallas End the Fed organizer

Posted 09/23/09 10:50 PM doctor jones New York, NY

Hey Debbie, heard you became the new state coordinator in Texas! Congrats! If you haven't seen me around lately it's not because I don't care but because I moved to New York in June. We're doing big things up here. Hopefully, if we do our job, the midterm elections will vindicate us. -Dustin