Drivers protest Bush in a counter-inaugural

[NJCher]

BY PHILIP READ
Star-Ledger Staff

Joseph Baker has a certain affinity with inauguration day. It's his birthday.

So just a few hours after George W. Bush took the oath of office yesterday, Baker found himself at the wheel of the family's Honda Odyssey van, in line for a motorcade that at times was not unlike the one in Washington, D.C.

The kids, the cold, the tight security, he said, kept him home in Montclair, but it couldn't keep him from "The People's Counter-Inaugural Motorcade."

His van was in a caravan -- about a dozen strong but reaching 18 by one count -- that made its way through Glen Ridge, Montclair, Bloomfield and finally to the federal courthouse in Newark, drawing beeping car horns of support and oftentimes perplexed stares.

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[ailsagirl]

1. Great story-- thanks for posting it

You know, I forgot what a showing we made last year during the repug's convention in NY-- there was SO MUCH protesting going on-- beautiful, eye-catching stuff involving many thousands of people.

Those people are still with us-- those people are probably among us here at DU!! Sometimes I feel as if we're a huge minority (is there such a thing?) but when I remember how strong our voices were in NY and how strong they were in Washington, it heartens me tremendously.

Despite what the right would have me think, I firmly believe there are lots more of us than THEM.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. YAY New Jersey!

[Lenape85]

3. If I did that in my town, I would have been shot