Republican National Convention Breakfast Monday, September 1, 2008
Monday, September 1, 2008 by Kevin Dayhoff
Today is the first day of a much more subdued convention than what many of us had anticipated before Hurricane Gustav decided to crash the party.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Arizona Sen. John McCain essentially cancelled everything except some party – convention parliamentary business.
Most of the Maryland delegation to the Republican National Convention here in Minneapolis St Paul, Minnesota got together early Monday morning for breakfast some presentations and business and events organizational updates.
This was especially important this morning as everything is very fluid…
This morning Maryland state delegate and convention delegate Tony O’Donnell and former Maryland state delegate and convention delegate Carmen Amedori presented an update on discussions and deliberations on the Republican National Party platform.
The platform process was not scripted and was very open. They had a blog which received over 15,000 suggestions, including videos and songs. The process was live on C-span. It was also recorded by court reporters – one was from Maryland.
The platform was reduced to 20,000 words – from 40,000. The prior year is used as the starting point for the subsequent year.
In other news tidbits, several members of the Maryland delegation are veterans of many conventions. For Anne Arundel county executive John Leopold (and about 2 others…) … it is their 8th Republican National Convention.
Although I have not seen her, political activist Phyllis Schlafly is staying in this hotel. I had also heard that political commentator Pat Buchanan is also staying here. I have not seen him either.
Of course, one of the challenges with such a politically charged congregation of over 45,000 folks from all over the country is rumor control and sometimes, getting hard information requires having good connections and lots of gumshoe detective work.
They expect some protestors in the convention hall. The suggested process is to outshout the protestors. Mr. Louis Pope, national committeeman, remembers the last convention in which a woman starting shouting anti-war slogans during President Bush’s speech – the crowd started yelling “4 more years.”
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the vice presidential running mate announced last Friday, has re-invigorated the campaign. $5 million in new donations were received this weekend. MoveOn.org has lots of comments meant to be negative about Sarah Palin. They seem pretty positive to us. Of course, I have followed Governor Palin’s career for a number of years. As a fellow journalist who has also switched back and forth of the keyboard (an elected official whose profession is writing…) one of the very first things that caught my attention is that she has a degree in journalism.
… The assistant minority leader in House of Representatives for Minnesota – Laura Brod, also spoke this morning.
Next stop later in the morning is a luncheon reception at “Circus Juventas:” www.circusjuventas.org.
Caroline Babylon contributed to this article.
20080901 Convention Breakfast Monday, September 1, 2008
Monday, September 1, 2008 by Kevin Dayhoff
Today is the first day of a much more subdued convention than what many of us had anticipated before Hurricane Gustav decided to crash the party.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Arizona Sen. John McCain essentially cancelled everything except some party – convention parliamentary business.
Most of the Maryland delegation to the Republican National Convention here in Minneapolis St Paul, Minnesota got together early Monday morning for breakfast some presentations and business and events organizational updates.
This was especially important this morning as everything is very fluid…
This morning Maryland state delegate and convention delegate Tony O’Donnell and former Maryland state delegate and convention delegate Carmen Amedori presented an update on discussions and deliberations on the Republican National Party platform.
The platform process was not scripted and was very open. They had a blog which received over 15,000 suggestions, including videos and songs. The process was live on C-span. It was also recorded by court reporters – one was from Maryland.
The platform was reduced to 20,000 words – from 40,000. The prior year is used as the starting point for the subsequent year.
In other news tidbits, several members of the Maryland delegation are veterans of many conventions. For Anne Arundel county executive John Leopold (and about 2 others…) … it is their 8th Republican National Convention.
Although I have not seen her, political activist Phyllis Schlafly is staying in this hotel. I had also heard that political commentator Pat Buchanan is also staying here. I have not seen him either.
Of course, one of the challenges with such a politically charged congregation of over 45,000 folks from all over the country is rumor control and sometimes, getting hard information requires having good connections and lots of gumshoe detective work.
They expect some protestors in the convention hall. The suggested process is to outshout the protestors. Mr. Louis Pope, national committeeman, remembers the last convention in which a woman starting shouting anti-war slogans during President Bush’s speech – the crowd started yelling “4 more years.”
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the vice presidential running mate announced last Friday, has re-invigorated the campaign. $5 million in new donations were received this weekend. MoveOn.org has lots of comments meant to be negative about Sarah Palin. They seem pretty positive to us. Of course, I have followed Governor Palin’s career for a number of years. As a fellow journalist who has also switched back and forth of the keyboard (an elected official whose profession is writing…) one of the very first things that caught my attention is that she has a degree in journalism.
… The assistant minority leader in House of Representatives for Minnesota – Laura Brod, also spoke this morning.
Next stop later in the morning is a luncheon reception at “Circus Juventas:” www.circusjuventas.org.
Caroline Babylon contributed to this article.
20080901 Convention Breakfast Monday, September 1, 2008
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