DenverPost:5,000 attend tax-day ‘tea party’ at Capitol
More than 5,000 people crowded onto the west side of the state Capitol this afternoon, as part of a nationwide string of 
tax-day protests dubbed “tea parties.”
Speakers at the protest, including a number of Republican activists, lawmakers and candidates, railed against current federal spending, President Barack Obama and Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter. They called the economic stimulus package fiscally irresponsible, and they accused politicians who supported it of ignoring the voice of the people.
“The people in power deceived us,” Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck told the crowd during the rally, “and we were complacent. We are complacent no more.”
Protesters at the rally carried signs with slogans such as “Obamanomics:
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