‘Pittsburgh tea party’ in D.C.

WASHINGTON — Dale McCoy is sick of being called right-wing.

The 48-year-old Hopewell electrician stood with several thousand flag-waving protesters yesterday on the West Lawn of the Capitol to denounce health care reform and a government they claim has spiraled out of control.

“We’re dead center,” he said. “Those people up in the Capitol went left. We didn’t move.”

Mr. McCoy, a union member and registered Democrat, came down with four busloads of Pittsburgh-area residents in a trip organized by Jeff Steigerwalt of Franklin Park. Mr. Steigerwalt — wearing a red, white and blue lei — estimated that about 200 people, wearing American flag pins that said “Pittsburgh tea party,” paid the $49 for a bus ride down — and they only started organizing the trip Monday.

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