When October 20 was set as the National Rally date, the first thing we did was check the LSU Tiger Football Schedule. We were in luck, it was an away game. However, as luck would have it, ESPN picked up the LSU vs A&M game and scheduled it for 11:00 a.m. Baton Rouge is Tiger Football country, so we knew this would create a challenge. [Continue reading …]
The Baton Rouge Rally was excellent with about 350 in attendance.
Just prior to the noon start, bad weather and rain came through Baton Rouge. We lost our donated sound system due to rain because the equipment got wet and could not be used. We thought we were done. Then at about 11:45 am the sun came out and about 350 people started showing up. We had a smaller Sound System as backup so we were up and running. We were hoping for 500+, but considering the bad weather throughout the Baton Rouge area, 350 was a good turn-out.
Plus we got great media coverage. [Continue reading …]