TOPEKA CAPITAL JOURNAL
BY ANN MARIE BUSH
James Grooms gripped his sign in one hand and held an umbrella with the other Friday while waiting for the Tea Party Express national bus tour on the Statehouse grounds.
His sign read: "Process is Important. Process Obama out in 2012."
The rain didn't deter Grooms, of Topeka, from showing his support for the tea party movement.
"The health care bill was shoved down our throat," he said before the beginning of the rally. "They went behind our backs. I'm really upset about the direction this country is going."
L.D. Morlan, 84, a U.S. Navy veteran in World War II and a U.S. Air Force veteran in the Korean War, was among roughly 550 people from all across Kansas and Missouri gathered on the Kansas Statehouse grounds Friday morning to listen to speakers from the Tea Party Express national bus tour. Morlan chomped on a cigar and carried a small American flag. "I'm mad and I'm scared of what's going on," said Morlan, of Carbondale. "I'm mad at the politics, and they're spending money like it's going out of style. I don't like this health care bill."
C.E. "Sonny" Scroggins carried an American flag on the other side of the street from where roughly 550 people from across Kansas and Missouri gathered Friday morning to listen to speakers from the Tea Party Express national bus tour. Sonny was protesting what he sees as racism within the tea party movement.
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