#WalkAway follow-up

Photo by Brandon Straka, 

founder of the "Walk Away" movement,

 via The Daily Signal

Despite the unprecedented number of Tea Party people who rallied in the 2009 Taxpayer March in DC, the media ignored it. Including The Plain Dealer. Although the turn-out was much smaller (possibly as many as 3,500 –despite lousy weather), the #WalkAway march in DC last weekend was similarly ignored by the media. However, the Daily Signal filed a follow-up report:

The founder of the #WalkAway Campaign, a movement showcasing stories of why Americans walk away from leftist ideology and the Democratic Party, says he is pleased with an organized march last weekend in the nation’s capital and plans to take the idea on the road.

“I thought it was spectacular. I am so proud of the entire weekend from beginning to end,” Brandon Straka said in an interview with The Daily Signal.

“I have very high expectations, which is why I usually feel let down all the time, but it was one of the rare moments in life where you have the highest possible hopes and expectations and it goes so far beyond,” Straka said.

Straka, 41, a former liberal who voted for Hillary Clinton in the past but now calls himself a “gay conservative,” said he estimates that 3,000 to 3,500 attended.

The #WalkAway events started Oct. 26 with a gala dinner at Trump International Hotel, a march Oct. 27 from John Marshall Park to Freedom Plaza, and a closing brunch Oct. 28.

Read the rest here. Good photos, too

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