1,000 at New Orleans FairTax Booksigning
Today’s Nuze reports, among other things, that nearly 1,000 people showed up for the FairTax Book booksigning in New Orleans:
Well, I must say that the crunch portion of The FairTax Book tour ended with somewhat of a bang. I thought it would be a good idea to bring Royal, Belinda and Ken down to New Orleans for a little partying over the weekend to coincide with my signing at the Borders in Metairie and my Saturday morning brunch with some 690 WTIX contest winners. We were all originally going to leave on Sunday afternoon .. but plans are always subject to change.
Virtually as soon as we got to New Orleans on Friday we started making arrangements to get out on Saturday, as soon as the WTIX Brunch with Boortz at the Ritz was over. Belinda and Royal did just fine. They had reservations at 2:45. The bride and I had AirTran reservations at 7:45 Saturday evening. The evacuation of New Orleans started at 1:00 on Saturday afternoon ... so we decided to plan for some crushing traffic and left for the airport at 2:00. What is normally a 20 minute trip turned into 90 ... and we felt lucky with that time!
We can’t say enough good things about Dan Fraiser and Rob Hunter from WTIX. With that hurricane bearing down on them they sure had better things to do than shuffle us around ... but they made sure we were taken care of before anything else. I also want to thank the people of the greater New Orleans area. The signing on Friday night was sensational. They estimate we signed about 600+ books with a crowd that approached nearly 1000. By the time the signing was over Belinda was weighted down with about 45 pounds of beads. I hope there are pictures somewhere. [there are!] We also had a good group for our Saturday morning brunch. I spent about 40 minutes answering questions .... all about the FairTax. These folks were well informed. Now we in the Boortz crew are hoping and praying that the people we met are all safe.
