In Washington, D.C., Tea Party activists spend lunch hour protesting at the IRS

An estimated 75 Tea Partiers gave up lunch Tuesday afternoon to instead participate in a “flash rally” to protest the Internal Revenue Services’s targeting of conservatives and Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status during the 2010 and 2012 election campaigns.

“We called it a flash rally because it was quick enough for those who are working to come down and protest on their lunch break,” said Lisa Miller, founder of Tea Party of Washington D.C. and one of the rally’s organizers.