The crowd-counting discussion is now well beyond Minneapolis (literally). Please stop the thread now, thanks.
David Brauer List manager > I covered the 'support our troops' rally on Saturday and was told that the > Capitol plant manager estimated the crowd at between 5 and 10k. A state > trooper I talked to up at the top of the stairs told me 6 to 7 thousand, but > added that the State patrol was not going to offer official estimates because > they were 'tired of being wrong.' > > I was also at the Oct. 26 anti-war rally and can safely say that Saturday's > rally numbers did not greatly exceed the Oct. 26 rally. There may have been > a few more than the Oct. 26 rally (the weather was also a lot nicer than last > fall), but I can't image there was nearly double the number. TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls