July 05, 2009 06:08 PM UTC

Colorado "Tea Parties" Awfully Short On Press Coverage

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• by: Colorado Pols

We’ve been checking our regular news sources and Google Alerts like we do every morning, but today we were especially looking for coverage of yesterday’s “Tea Party” protest events–a number of which were scheduled to take place in Colorado. As we mentioned a couple of days ago a “Tea Party” in Grand Junction was of particular interest, with Senate candidate Ken Buck speaking and all-but-announced gubernatorial candidate Josh Penry possibly even declaring his candidacy on a Gadsden flag-draped stage.

What surprises us the most today is the lack of coverage. There’s a brief story from 9NEWS about the protest in Castle Rock that begins this way:

The Tea Parties that took place this 4th of July were smaller than the massive ones we saw this spring but the message was the same…

There’s another relatively short story in the Pueblo Chieftain that more or less reads like a press release (a Chieftain columnist was the headline speaker at the local rally apparently), proudly hailing the “strong crowd” of “100-plus.” Curiously, there’s not a lot else–nothing we’ve found yet on the Grand Junction “Tea Party” (we assume that means Penry pushed back his announcement to a better news cycle than July 4th weekend), nothing in the Denver Post, no scurrilous photos of children carrying “Obama is a monkey” signs from Progress Now, hardly a peep out of the Colorado right-wing blogs as of this writing. Did everybody stay out partying past deadline?

Because it’s either that, or this thing was a flop. Help us out, folks, as (or if) links emerge proving that “Tea Parties” were in fact held “across Colorado” yesterday, post them in this thread.