He will be at the Bob Martinez Sports Center at the University of Tampa; event is scheduled to start at 12:30. People are being asked to be in place by 10:30 AM.

Come early, Secret Service is closing off streets and traffic will be a challenge.

We need a strong turnout folks! If you can find a way to get there – GET THERE!

UPDATE:  A message from Tom Gaitens in Tampa -

Hi All,

The Tampa Tea Party is organizing a major counter-rally for Obama on Thursday. Please forward this email to your groups and social networks.

Around noon on Thursday, January 28th, President Obama will be speak to a rally announcing $2.5 Billion dollars of “stimulus” spending on a rail and bus system interconnecting Tampa with Orlando.

The Tampa Tea Party and the Bay Area 912 groups are conducting a counter-rally against this wasteful, low-value, deficit increasing, misguided and unwanted spending.

The Rally is from 11 AM until 1 PM. Please attempt to arrive near 10AM so as to obtain parking. The traffic may be quite tedious.

The main source for timely information is the event on our meetup page. Her is the URL http://www.facebook.com/l/41dab;www.meetup.com/Tampa-Tea-Party/calendar/12419766. Here is the tinyURL alias for the same link http://www.facebook.com/l/41dab;tinyurl.com/yfqkogr.

Here is a customized Google Map for the rally: http://www.facebook.com/l/41dab;tinyurl.com/yf763zf. This map has icons for our rally (a man’s silhouette), Obama’s rally (a red pin) and parking (the letter ‘P’.) Clicking the various icons will cause pop-up balloons with additional information to appear.

Do not forget to bring water.

When you arrive in the rally area please follow the directions of the organizers. John Hendrix, one of the organizers, is six feet tall, shaved head, beard and will be wearing a bright red “National March on Washington” shirt.

Here are suggested messages for your signs:

TAX CUTS CREATE MORE JOBS THAN STIMULUS SPENDING STOP SPENDING!
WE CANNOT SPEND OUR WAY TO PROSPERITY
OBAMA – YOU PASSED $800B STIMULUS AND UNEMPLOYMENT WENT UP!
NO TO STIMULUS – YES TO AXING GOV’T SPENDING NO TO STIMULUS – YES TO TAX CUTS STIMULUS = PORKULUS TO SPECIAL INTERESTS FOLLOW THE MONEY SUNRAIL= SPECIAL INTEREST BOONDOGGLE WITH TAXPAYER MONEY SUNRAIL = TAX INCREASES CREATE REAL JOBS – LET’S DRILL OFFSHORE WE WANT ECONOMIC FREEDOM – NOT GOV’T PORK NO MORE FEEDING AT THE GOV’T TROUGH SUNRAIL HOSES TAXPAYERS OBAMA’S ECONOMY – $13 TRILLION IN DEBT

 Thank you for standing with us.

Your in Liberty,

 Tom Gaitens