Hi Everyone! A HUGE thank you to all of you who coordinated, raised money and gave to the effort to fly a banner over today's game! As we were driving into the game area around 2pm, the banner flew over the stadium and surrounding parking areas. The traffic was virtually at a standstill, so thousands of fans were a captive audience for the banner. It was awesome.

I'm also posting some pictures of the tailgate itself. More than 20 volunteers set up the site and then fanned out into the stadium and fairground parking lots to hand out at least 1000 invitations. We had a huge turnout for the Governor when he arrived. I was amazed at the number of media, as one picture will show.

The Governor and Ric Flair, former SC Governor David Beasley, and SC Campaign Chair Mike Campbell did several interviews with the media, and then Governor Huckabee started to work the crowd. It was a treat for Mrs. Huckabee and Mrs. Beasley to be present as well, since they were recently in Columbia for a tea with the First Ladies. The response to the tailgate was very positive - we had people seeking out the tailgate to pick up signs, bumper stickers, lapel stickers and issues fliers. All in all - a great success!

Thanks again to Huck's Army! You all did a great job in supporting this event!

Awersome...AWESOME job!!

I'm sure Mike was blown away by the strength of the support, and it's being reflected in the plug the blog is giving us today. thanks a million for the pics!

Is there a way to reduce the size so that the post is more reader friendly administrators?

Great job to all that made this happen. You have made us proud to be apart of Hucksarmy.com!!

That is so COOL!!! I wish I could have been there!
I'm so proud of Huck's Army!!!

Oh...I wish I was there too! Huckabee looks like his had a fan base after him!

FANTASTIC PICTURES!!!! Thank you, so much for posting them!!! The banner looked GREAT!! And all the Huckabee supporters as well!!

GOOD JOB!!!!! Thank you for all your hard work!!

GO HUCKABEE!!!

Dang! All I can say is 'supercalifragilisticexpealidocious'!!!!!! Or somthing like that

That is so awesome!!! Great job, Andrea! It's wonderful to have had the opportunity to be a part of something that so many people saw!

Thanks for the pictures, Jenn!

I edited all of the pictures for you guys.. Hopefully the size is much better. I have kept a copy of the originals so if you want them just PM me.

Thanks Jenn for taking these pictures, thanks to Andrea for coming up with this idea and carrying it out, and thanks to those who contributed to make this happen.

GO Hucks Army!

That is SOOO wonderful. I am SO glad it all came together. I wish I could be there with you guys! I hope Mike was able to see the banner. Did anyone send him the pictures?

I hope he liked it! Did you get all your money?

Great job! Way to go Huck's Army!

Did we ever find out who made the purchase of the later time slot?

I am so proud of all the good Hucks Army folks who made this happen. Thanks to all who dreamed and donated and did whatever was needed! I love the pics -- especially the last one. I'll post it on my sites.

Thanks for the pictures Jen. Don't underestimate the endorsement by Ric Flair either. Ric is a fan favorite of all of Gamecock Nation.

Can someone email them to FNC with a short report about what we did. Could get on the You Report segment.
Thanks,

I got to see Gov. Huckabee and hear him preach at the First Baptist Church in Fountain Inn, SC this morning at 11AM. It was great! I asked him if he saw the banner yesterday, and he said that he didn't and that he must have arrived after it had already flown.

About the Ron Paulers, is there not a way to make a private thread that only logged in members can see? Is there any way to screen them from getting a login?

Jonathon