House call draws big crowd on short notice »
Posted By Temlakos 1 month, 2 weeks ago in NewsWhen Rep. Michele Bachmann called for an " emergency House call ," even she did not anticipate how many people would respond on less than one week's notice. Final estimates of the total crowd vary from 15,000 to 25,000. Even more importantly, people took anywhere from 4 to 20 hours to get there and spent up to 2 hours waiting in line to get in to their Congressmen's offices. Aside from an ugly scene in and just outside Nancy Pelosi's Cannon Building office, the rally proceeded without incident.
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NBC's Luke Russert got an estimate of 3,000-3,500 people, from a Capitol policeman. As Think Progress points out, a photo posted by rally supporter Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) showed that the crowd did not even take up the full area of the Capitol building's lawn, and could not have been more than a few thousand people.
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