Jun 062010
 
Phoenix Rising Rally a big dud! 700 - 1000 estimated attendance

They advertised it as “Taking America Back”, from whom, no one knows, but the highly touted anti immigrant rally in Phoenix, called “Phoenix Rising”, apparently was a dud. The organizers of Phoenix Rising jumped the gun when they proclaimed; This promises to be the largest rally in American history demanding that the states and federal government secure our borders and crack down on illegal immigration. Attendance was estimated to be between 700-1000 attendees, which fell way short of the thousands the organizers had expected. Some came armed, others just came. It was only a week before when opponents of Arizona’s new racial profiling law known as SB-1070 rallied more than 100,000 from across the US to show their opposition to MORE